Notable Members
The current president of the Pitt Club is the renowned History of Art Professor David Watkin. The other trustees are Tim Steel, Jeremy Norman and Lord Edward Spencer Churchill.
Notable members and former members of the club include kings Edward VII and George V, HRH Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Olympic gold-medalist Lord Burghley (on whom the character Lord Lindsay in Chariots of Fire is based), the economist John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge spies Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, journalist David Frost, and actor Eddie Redmayne.
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