Pilgrims Society
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Membership
Over the years it has boasted an elite membership of politicians, diplomats, businessmen, and writers who have included Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher, Caspar Weinberger, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Luce, Lord Carrington, Alexander Haig, Paul Volcker, Thomas Kean and Walter Cronkite to mention a very few. Members of the immediate Royal Family, United States secretaries of state and United States ambassadors to the Court of St. James are customarily admitted to membership in the Society.
Activities
The Society is notable for holding dinners to welcome into office each successive U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. The patron of the society is Queen Elizabeth II.
History
The first informal meeting of the Pilgrims of Great Britain included General Joseph Wheeler, Colonel (later General Sir) Bryan Mahon, the Hon Charles Rolls and Harry Brittain.
The first meeting of the Pilgrims of the United States was at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on 13 January 1903.
The Pilgrims of Great Britain and the Pilgrims of the United States have reciprocal membership.
Executive Committee members, as of 2016, are:
- Marshal of the Royal Air Force the Lord Stirrup KG GCB AFC (President)
- Ronald M Freeman (Chairman)
- Sir Michael Craig-Cooper CBE TD DL (Honorary Secretary)
- Richard Reid (Honorary Treasurer)
- Robert Alston CMG
- Sir Peter Bottomley MP
- The Right Hon the Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony
- Ambassador John J Danilovich
- W Kenneth Gardener
- Deborah Owen
- Sir John Holmes GCVO KBE CMG
- Lady Judge CBE
- Alastair Macpherson of Pitmain
- Diane Simpson
- Sir Stephen Wright KCMG
- Elizabeth Dibble, Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy, London
- Vice Admiral Sir Anthony Dymock KBE CB
- Piers Coleman
- Paul Dimond CMG
- Tristan Elbrick
Noteworthy members
- HM Queen Elizabeth II
- HRH Prince Philip
- HRH Prince Charles
- Nelson W. Aldrich
- Winthrop W. Aldrich
- John Nicholas Brown II
- Lord Carrington
- John W. Davis
- Charles G. Dawes
- Admiral William J. Crowe
- Chauncey Depew
- Allen W. Dulles
- John Foster Dulles
- Mark Fox
- General Alexander Haig
- W. Averell Harriman
- Joseph P. Kennedy
- Henry R. Luce
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- Henry Kissinger
- Eliot Richardson
- General of the Army George C. Marshall
- Andrew W. Mellon
- John D. Rockefeller
- David Rockefeller
- Elihu Root
- Jacob Schiff
- John Hay Whitney
References
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