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The new architecture featured, on the ground floor, a towering Bow Window to illuminate the interior. In the later 18th century, the table directly in front of it became a seat of privilege, the throne of the most socially influential men in the club. This belonged to ''arbiter elegantiarum'' Beau Brummel until he removed to the Continent in 1816 , when Lord Alvanley took the place of honour. It was here that Alvanley bet with a friend £3000 as to which of two raindrops would first reach the bottom of a pane of the bow window. This was not the most eccentric bet in White's famous betting book. Some of those entries were on sports, but more often on political developments, especially during the chaotic years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars . A good many were social bets, such as whether a friend would marry this year, or whom. At least in the later 1970s, the exterior was painted azure with white trim. FAMOUS MEMBERS REFERENCES
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