Ian Board

Ian David Archibald Board (16 December 1929 – 26 June 1994) was an English nightclub owner who ran The Colony Room Club in Dean Street in London's Soho district, from 1981 to 1994, having taken it over from Muriel Belcher who founded the private drinking club in 1948.

Early life Board grew up in a poor family in Exeter, and his mother died when he was four years old.

He assiduously cultivated the custom of artists including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Michael Andrews, and Barry Flanagan. However, it was never exclusively so, and as Board said, "I don't mind those poofs, as long as they keep their distance."

Personal life Board died from cirrhosis, on 26 June 1994.