Calves'-head Club — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Calves'-head Club, an association instituted in contempt of the memory of Charles I., and holding its principal meeting on the 30th January, the anniversary of that king's execution. After the Restoration this club met in secret and under difficulties, but seems to have continued in existence till 1734, when popular ill-will against some outrageous toasts proposed led to a serious riot. The club seems after this to have decayed.