who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, killed in action in the First World War. Harold Abrahams (1899–1978), Olympic track and field champion immortalized in the film Chariots of Fire. Robert Morrison (rower) (1902–1980), British Olympic rower. David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (1905–1981), Olympic gold-medalist on whom the character Lord Lindsay in Chariots of Fire is based. Michael Warriner (1908–1986), British Olympic rower and gold medallist (1928). Three-time boat race winner and President of Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC). Anthony Bingham Mildmay, 2nd Baron Mildmay of Flete (1909–1950), celebrated amateur steeplechaser, who raced in the Grand National. Other Rudolph Feilding, 8th Earl of Denbigh (1823–1892), British peer and noted Roman Catholic convert. Arthur Murray Goodhart (1866–1941), British composer and organist, principal of Guildhall School of Music, Conductor of the Concerts of the Royal Academy of Music. Charles Grey, 5th Earl Grey (1879–1963), English nobleman. Roland Nelson (1881–1940), English rower, barrister and private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Home Secretary. Evelyn de Rothschild (1886–1917), member of the Rothschild family and soldier. John Fremantle, 4th Baron Cottesloe (1900–1994), Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and the South Bank Theatre Board. Edric Hamilton-Russell (1904–1984), British rower and mining engineer who was director of pre-nationalisation collieries. Guy Burgess (1911–1963), spy, diplomat and member of the Cambridge Five. Claud Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore (1911–1994), British architect. Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow (1912–2013), British diplomat and colonial governor of The Bahamas. Christopher Mallaby (1936–2022), British diplomat closely involved in German reunification. Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria (1961–), British Indian entrepreneur and a university chancellor, well known for founding the global beer brand Cobra Beer. Rupert Goodman (1963–), British publisher, international affairs expert and entrepreneur. Harry Primrose, Lord Dalmeny (1967–), British aristocrat and the Chairman of Sotheby's in the United Kingdom. Women After 182 years of activity, the club allowed women to join in 2017. This came after a trial run in which female guests were allowed access in the daytime (having previously been allowed in only 'after dark except Sunday lunch') but, as well as male guests, were barred from buying their own drinks. Before women's admission, the club was dominated by 'old boys' of a select group of boarding schools, who allegedly decided which women should be invited to parties by rating their looks out of 10. Official website pittclub.org.uk References Clubs and societies of the University