2, Fleet Street. Demolished 1787. Full title was the Devil and St Dunstan, the sign being the Devil's nose being tweaked by pincers wielded by the saint. It appears in a Hogarth illustration. The dramatist Ben Jonson established the Apollo Club here, named after a room in the pub. A bust of Jonson and a plaque carrying a verse used to be mounted over the door of this room. These items, apparently, still exist in Child's Bank which is now on the site.
Members of the Apollo Club included: Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith and Dr. Samuel Johnson.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Devil Tavern
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Devil Tavern
Site of the Devil Tavern, demolished 1787. The Corporation of the City of Lo...
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Ibstock Building Products Ltd
From their website: "... clay and concrete building products, building the face of Britain for over 200 years."
1 memorial
Frank Bethell
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was Architect and Surveyor for the the Bostall Estate construction 1900.
1 memorial
1 memorial
St Katharine Docks
SKDocks gives a brief introduction to the history of the area. A London Inheritance have done their usual thorough job with lots of images. In the 1976 film To the Devil a Daughter Richard Widmark...
4 memorials
White Horse Cellars at Hatchett's Hotel
This building is still at 66-68 Piccadilly, on the north-east of the junction with Dover Street. Architect: Weatherley and Jones. From British History (written in 1878, just 10 years before Selby...
1 memorial
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Somerset House - 1, George III
WC2, Strand, Somerset House - Strand Block
The three central first floor windows of the Strand Block of Somerset House are each topped, below their pediment, with a relief portrait...
1 subject commemorated
Major General Frank Roberts, VC
Major General Frank Crowther Roberts, VC, DSO, OBE, MC. Born Highbury. Served in the Worcestershire Regiment. During the period 22 March/2 April 1918 west of Somme and at Pargny, France, Lieutena...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Rev. A Walbaum
Founded and then served for 46 years as Honorary Secretary and Chaplain of the German Hospital and was described in "Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660-1914" as the "soul of the h...
1 memorial
Mary Wollstonecraft - NW1
NW1, Werrington Street, Oakshott Court
2019: Ann Pearson wrote questioning the absence of any reference on the plaque to William Godwin and Mary Shelley. We'll redress that omi...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sandemanian chapel
The Sandemanians were a Christian sect founded by John Glas in Scotland and spread into England and America by his son-in-law Robert Sandeman. Sandeman arrived in London in April 1761 and establish...
2 memorials
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