In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met using the title of the Fountain Club, also the Coal Hole, the meeting place of the Wolf Club of which about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading member.
WC2, Strand, Savoy Buildings
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Fountain Tavern
Here the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met, using the title of th...
First Prime Minister of Great Britain. An early political victim of satire, ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Fountain Tavern
Previously known as Churchyard Bottom Wood, the wood was renamed in honour of Queen Victoria when Hornsey Urban District Council purchase...
Here, in early life, lived John Henry Cardinal Newman. Born 1801 : Died 1890.
The two stations are at either end of the Dutchflyer rail-ferry service, via Harwich.
Greater London Council Hilaire Belloc, 1870-1953, poet, essayist and historian, lived here, 1900-1905.
The flanking stones don't really explain: Where did this crest come from (one of their 7 halls presumably, but which)? And why is it her...
Sir William Lancaster, 1841 - 1929, co-founder of the Putney School of Art, Mayor of Wandsworth, 1901 - 2. The Putney Society
See Joseph Lyons and J. Lyons & Co. The photo is probably c.1930/40s.
Good to see one of these Fields still being used for sports.
Businessman and politician. Born at 71 York Road, Lambeth (demolished), the son of Dr Henry Stephens. Known as 'Inky', he developed the writing fluid invented by his father. He served as member of ...
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