Kit-Cat Club, a political and literary society of Whigs founded in London in 1700. Its members consisted of such prominent statesmen and writers as William Congreve, Samuel Garth, and Robert Walpole. Meetings were held in the home or shop of Christopher Catt, a pastry cook of Shire Lane. He served the members mutton pies called kit-cats, from which the club took its name. The club was dissolved in 1720.