The club’s new premises, capable of accommodating 1,000 people, and consisting of a Main Hall for entertainments and public meetings, a large Billiard Room below it, a library, refreshment and committee rooms, are formally opened by the Liberal peer Lord Tweedmouth

The CIU opens its first Convalescent Home for members at Pegwell Bay in Kent. The Mildmay’s Jesse Argyle is joint-originator of the scheme which goes on to build two more Homes around the country which give respite and special care to thousands of members recovering from serious or chronic illness

Efforts to finance the purchase of 34 Newington Green flounder, and club member and architect Alfred Allen steps in to buy the freehold from the Club Trustees in his own name, and leases it back to the club. At the same time he also buys the adjoining property at 33 Newington Green and begins to draw up plans for the construction of a new clubhouse.

A subcommittee is formed to seek out new larger premises for the club. They identify a large mansion, with 12 rooms and spacious grounds at 34 Newington Green.

Jesse Argyle becomes Chairman of the Mildmay Committee. Argyle is private secretary to Charles Booth, the first of whose groundbreaking social survey series The Life and Labour of the People in London is about to be published.

Agreement is reached to rent the furnished premises at 36 Newington Green Road, from the owner, the Ball’s Pond Secular Hall Society. To get things going, loans in the form of bonds, typically for £1, are raised from 15 founding members.