Full title: 'Extract from Minutes of the Eleventh Quarterly General Meeting of the Members of The Whittington Club and Metropolitan Athenaeum held at the Club House Arundel Street Strand, 14 Oct. 1850.
Moved, seconded and carried unanimously: that Charles Lushington, R. Monckton Milnes, James Wyld, Douglas Jerrold. J. Humphreys [Humffreys] Parry and J. Alfred Novello, having expressed willingness to become Trustees and Lessees of the Club, be appointed Trustees on behalf of the Institution. Resolution then 'passed by acclamation' that the thanks of the Members should be presented to these men for consenting to accept the Office of Trustees.
Extract signed 'By order of the Managing Committee' by the Secretary, William Strudwicke.