He co-founded venues including the UFO Club, produced Pink Floyd's first single, " Arnold Layne ", and went on to manage folk and folk rock acts including Nick Drake, the Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention.

In 1890, Yeats co-founded the Rhymers ' Club with Ernest Rhys, a group of London based poets who met regularly in a Fleet Street tavern to recite their verse.

Both races were established by the Jockey Club under the direction of Sir Charles Bunbury, who had earlier co-founded the Derby at Epsom.

* The Diogenes Club, named after Diogenes of Sinope, co-founded by Sherlock Holmes ' brother Mycroft

He became a folk artist and, as an avid coin collector, co-founded the Beverly Hills Coin Club in 1987 with much younger actor Chris Aable.

In January 1790 he returned to Montpellier, was elected a member of the municipality, co-founded the Jacobin Club in that city, and on the flight to Varennes of King Louis XVI in 1791, he drew up a petition to invite the National Constituent Assembly to proclaim a Republic — the first in date of such petitions.

Grey co-founded the " Porpoise Club " with his friend, Robert H. Davis of Munsey's Magazine, to popularize the sport of hunting of dolphins and porpoises.

He co-founded the Sierra Club, which helped establish a number of national parks after he died and today has over 1. 3 million members.

She co-founded the Skowhegan chapter of the Business and Professional Women's Club in 1922, and served as editor of the club's magazine, The Pine Cone.

Mycroft spends most of his time at the Diogenes Club, which he co-founded.

During the same time, she also served as director of Brown Thomas & Co. in Ireland, co-founded Torwest in the United States, and served as vice-chair and design director of the Windsor Club in Florida.

The Trinity Broadcasting Network was co-founded by Paul Crouch, Jan Crouch, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker in 1973 as Trinity Broadcasting Systems ; the Bakkers would leave by 1975 to start their own ministry, The PTL Club.

In 1900 Orage met Holbrook Jackson and three years later they co-founded the Leeds Arts Club, which became a centre of modernist culture in pre-World War I Britain.

After retiring from competitive golf in 1930, Jones founded and helped design the Augusta National Golf Club soon afterwards in 1933, and also co-founded the Masters Tournament, which has been annually staged by the club since 1934 ( except for 1943 – 45, when it was cancelled due to World War II ).

In 1876 he co-founded the Appalachian Mountain Club.

In addition to his duties at the European Space Agency, Haigneré is also involved in a European space tourism initiative, the Astronaute Club Européen ( ACE ), which he co-founded with Alain Dupas and Laurent Gathier.

He was also a supporter of the Special Forces Club, which he had co-founded.

The two races were established by the Jockey Club under the direction of Sir Charles Bunbury, who had earlier co-founded the Derby.

Ryan had been running a pool hall on Yonge Street and in November 1905 co-founded the Toronto Bowling Club above a store at Yonge and Temperance Street.

In 1937 he co-founded with Thakin Than Tun the Nagani ( Red Dragon ) Book Club which for the first time widely circulated Burmese-language translations of the Marxist classics.

WIlliams's widow Della Williams ( 1895 – 1996 ) co-founded ( with Fannie Williams ) ' The Wilfandel Club ' Established November 21, 1945, by black women active in the Los Angeles, California, community.

In 1977, Hans von Storch co-founded a 100-member Donald Duck Club, defending Donald Duck against the accusations of indecent behavior.

In 1909, Selous co-founded the Shikar Club, a big-game hunters ' association, with two other British Army Captains, Charles Edward Radclyffe and P. B. Vanderbyl, and regularly met at the Savoy Hotel in London.

He became concerned that resource exploitation ( such as sheepherding ) would ruin the Sierra, so he co-founded the Sierra Club with Muir and others in 1892.

In 1982, she co-founded The Carter Center, a private, not-for-profit institution based in Atlanta, Georgia.

He is a co-founder and senior member of the Frontier Group, a private equity investment firm co-founded by David Robb ( formerly with The Carlyle Group ) and to which Sanford McDonnell and Norm Augustine are senior advisors.

** Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, private equity firm co-founded by Jerome Kohlberg, Jr.

There he co-founded two private businesses, one in 1989 which was liquidated by a court in 1992, while the other existed between 1986 and 2001.

He co-founded a private optometry clinic in 1977 and worked as a volunteer optometrist for low-income families.

Specializing in estate and adoption law, he also co-founded the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery, a private, not-for-profit institution to help prevent child abuse.

In 1981, Johnson co-founded Public Strategies, a private consulting firm, with diplomat Richard Holbrooke.

* Bain Capital, a private equity group co-founded by Mitt Romney

The company was a private venture co-founded by Peter V. Garrambone and Tony DeCamillis, which was partly funded by Lou Pearlman.

Upon his return to the private sector in 1997, Mr. Zed co-founded a very successful public policy and business advisory company in Ottawa, Summa Strategies Canada Inc., and served as its President for eight years representing some of the largest American and Canadian companies and their CEO's with offices in Ottawa, Washington and London.

In 1982, he co-founded, together with J. Christopher Lewis, a private equity firm which is now called Riordan, Lewis & Haden.

In 1983, Riordan also co-founded Riordan, Freeman & Spogli, a private equity firm, along with Bradford Freeman and Ronald P. Spogli.

In September, 2004, in cooperation with Nanjing Meiya Educational Investment Co. Ltd., CUC co-founded a private college in the southern city of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.

In 1949, Hyde co-founded and became the first president of the Conference of Chief Justices, which he helped create along with the Council of State Governments and several private foundations at a meeting in St. Louis called by him, along with New Jersey Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt and Nebraska Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons.

In 1967 Sawyer co-founded Lionel Sawyer & Collins, as of 2011 the largest private law firm in Nevada.

In 1985 he co-founded the private equity firm, the Blackstone Group.

In 1985, he co-founded with Stephen A. Schwarzman the prominent private equity and investment management firm, the Blackstone Group, and was for many years its chairman.

In 1996, instead of returning to Blackstone, he co-founded Evercore Partners, a boutique advisory and private equity investment firm in New York City, and currently serves as firm's Chairman.

In 1982, he sold both companies to the U. K .' s Mercantile House for $ 162 million and co-founded Odyssey Partners, a private investment partnership.

He co-founded the Maclean-Thorlakson clinic, renamed the Winnipeg Clinic in 1938, one of the earliest multi-speciality private group practice clinics in Canada.

He later went into private practice and co-founded the Vancouver law firm Owen Bird.

In 2001 he co-founded the Reform think tank which focuses on reforming public services via private sector involvement and de-regulation.

In 2003 he co-founded, and remains chairman of Evolve Development, a private property development and investment group based in Melbourne.

Upon retirement from football in 1999, he co-founded Northgate Capital, a private equity investment firm with offices in Danville, California and London, UK.