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Road Club, 4, Park-place, St. James’s, consists of not more than 500 members, other than supernumerary or honorary members, being noblemen and gentlemen driving four-in-hand, and who are interested in the revival of coaching in England; their friends, and all who take an interest in field or other sports. The entrance fee, first fixed at £10 10s., is now raised to £15 15s.; subscription, £8 8s.—(See COACHING.)
Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1879