The Cannibal Club was a Victorian dining club associated with The Anthropological Society, probably founded at the same time in 1863 by Sir Richard Francis Burton and Dr James Hunt. The club met in Bartolini's dining rooms, just off Fleet Street, where its official symbol was a mace carved to look like an African head gnawing on a human thighbone. The club's name is thought to derive from Burton's fascination with cannibalism, but which he regretted that he never witnessed on his travels. Its members included Richard Monkton Milnes, Charles Bradlaugh, Thomas Bendyshe, Algernon Swinburne, Sir James Plaisted Wilde, General Studholme John Hodgson and Charles Duncan Cameron.