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===Royal Geographical Society=== The [[Royal Geographical Society]] occupied No. 1 from 1870 to 1912, from where significant British exploration was planned, including into Asia, Africa, and the [[South Pole]]; and, according to the society, the address "became associated with adventure and travel".<ref name=Sheppard/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rgs.org/nr/rdonlyres/53ac53b8-ef0a-4129-a97a-dbdd83eb59ec/0/historyofthesocietypdf.pdf |title=Royal Geographical Society β History of the Society |access-date=13 March 2013 |publisher=Royal Geographical Society}}</ref> [[David Livingstone]] was laid out in state at the society's headquarters, before being buried in [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>{{cite journal |year=1873β1874 |title=Report to the Council on the Arrangements for the Funeral of Dr. Livingstone |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=445β450 |jstor= 1799748|doi=10.2307/1799748 |last1=Livingstone |first1=Dr. |last2=Rigby |first2=C. P. |last3=Fergusson |first3=Wm. |last4=Grant |first4=J. A. |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1449384 }}</ref> In 1871, shortly after the Royal Geographical Society moved into Savile Row, so did the [[Savile Club]]; a [[gentlemen's club]] founded in 1868 as the New Club, occupying rooms overlooking Trafalgar Square; it changed to its current name during its residence at 12 Savile Row, retaining the name when it moved in 1882 to premises in Piccadilly.<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=sAA9olZqPSMC&pg=PA822 |title=The London Encyclopedia |page=822|author=[[Christopher Hibbert]] |author2=John Keay |author3=Julia Keay |publisher=Pan Macmillan|date= 23 March 2010 |isbn=978-1-4050-4925-2 }}</ref>
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