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
The location was Greig's mother's shop, opened in 1870. The address then was 3 St Mary's Terrace.
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{Below the main plaque there is a small one, surmounted with two dolphins, a crown and an anchor:} National Submarine War Memorial (1922...
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, 1877 - 1947, forensic pathologist, lived here, 1912 - 1940. English Heritage
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