Talk:Spalding Gentlemen's Society

references and confusion

I began linking the Spalding Club here when I realised something was amiss. Some relevant articles on founders are up and I think what I did is roughly sorted out … now. Some more points:

• I don't see evidence here of a strong continuity from the foundation to the present day, getting an outline of the incarnations would be helpful. The first group seems widely noticed, but better sources might be gleaned from the vague clues of the history given at the primary source.
• The later members, like Curzon, needs solid refs; it didn't jump out from a quick and dirty search.
• There is a spaldingtrust.org, begun by "H N Spalding in the 1920s", its focus funding study of comparative religion.
• The same founded the "Spalding Chair of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University in 1936"

I don't know there is a problem, but there are inconsistencies at linked articles. cygnis insignis 11:37, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

I see no obvious connection with H. N. Spalding and the club or the place.

http://www.hindu.com/2003/09/12/stories/2003091200010900.htm

Spalding's influence on Oriental studies was profound and lasting. He stumbled on a book on the history of India, which first kindled in him an interest in the Far East. He settled in Oxford and devoted himself to the attempt to cultivate better relations between the West and the East by fostering, scholarly approaches to the history, art, religion and philosophy of Oriental countries. EdRicardo (talk) 14:13, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Bob Dylan

Does anyone know the connection between Bob Dylan and the Gentleman's Club of Spalding? It is in three Bob Dylan album titles.

"The Wiener Club Of Spalding" (Spalding Rocks, 92136, 92137, 1994, Rocks 92136, Rocks 92137, Manufactured in Norway)An essay on the tour of "the infamous gentleman's club of spalding" and "Le Commandeur" its chairman, by treasurer Pete Buffalo, 16.VII.1994, is included. Phill Townsend refers to this CD as The Werchter Club Of Spalding in Issue 11, October 1994 of The Famous Etiquette Book [p. 4]. No one ever explained Rockland's Captain Ahab's Dream / Bob Dylan & the Gentleman's Club of Spalding (Rockland, ROLA 003, 1991, ROLA 003 T203-13029 02)? Nor has anyone explained the vinyl Days Of '49 : The Gentleman's Club Of Spalding (Cookroom, Cookroom Records 001, [1990])?

EdRicardo (talk) 14:08, 28 October 2011 (UTC)