Westminster City Council
Here in the former Turk's Head Tavern Dr Samuel Johnson & Joshua Reynolds founded The Club in 1764.
Honsway C&E Foundation
W1, Gerrard Street, 9
This is the only surviving purpose-built 18th century tavern, now in 2011, a Chinese deli.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Johnson & Reynolds - The Club
The (Literary) Club was founded in the Turk's Head Tavern, Gerrard Street, by...
Essayist, biographer, lexicographer and speaker of quotes. Born Lichfield, St...
Born in Plympton, Devonshire. Came to London in 1753. As a student of Italian...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Johnson & Reynolds - The Club
We believe this is/was a commercial organisation with offices in Gerrard Street.
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Dirty and uncared for, but we prefer the Duchess plaque - just the way they have written the "Qu" of "Queen" endears it to us. The modern...
Greater London Council Colen Campbell, 1676 - 1729, architect and author of Vitruvius Britannicus, lived and died here.
Constantine Cavafy, 1863 - 1933, Greek poet, lived here, 1873 - 1876. The London Hellenic Society, 1974
Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, 1887 - 1969, politician and writer, lived here. English Heritage
You can see that there used to be another plaque fixed to this wall. Let's hope it was a cheap temporary thing removed when this rather n...
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