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 | | In that same year, Francis White's widow, Elizabeth, allowed a gentleman called Heidegger to use the premises as a centre for the sale of tickets to his ridottos, masquerades and balls, which were fashionable amongst 18th century society. |
 | | So heavy was the gaming at White's Chocolate House that the Earl of Oxford, Robert Harley, who died in 1724, never passed by White's without bestowing a curse upon it, calling it "the bane of half the English nobility." In 1736, White's began to operate as a private club, rather than a public chocolate house. |
 | | 37-38 St. James's Street, White's is the oldest and most splendid of the St. James's clubs, White's has it's origins in White's Chocolate House, which opened in 1693 in premises which would later become Boodle's Club, on the west side of it's present site. |
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