The (Literary) Club was founded in the Turk's Head Tavern, Gerrard Street, by Dr Samuel Johnson & Joshua Reynolds 1764. The members included: Goldsmith, Boswell, Burke, Reynolds, Garrick.
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The (Literary) Club
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Johnson & Reynolds - The Club
Westminster City Council Here in the former Turk's Head Tavern Dr Samuel Joh...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet and critic. Born and brought up in Ottery St Mary, Devon. Pupil at Christ's Hospital, 1781-91, where he became friends with Charles Lamb. Died London. Buried in the chapel of Highgate School....
5 memorials
Antonia White
Novelist. Born Eirene Adeline Botting at 22 Perham Road, West Kensington. She disliked her name and adopted her mother's maiden name. After the failure of her first marriage, she suffered a breakdo...
1 memorial
Moby Dick
Written by Herman Melville. First published, in London, in 1851.
1 memorial
Anthony Trollope
Author of over 50 delightful novels. Born at 16 Keppel Street. Worked for the GPO (General Post Office) 1834 - 59 and introduced the free-standing postbox ('pillar box') to the UK, an idea stolen f...
8 memorials
Chris Mullin
Former politician and author. Member of Parliament for Sunderland South from 1987 to 2010. He led the campaign that resulted in the release of the 'Birmingham Six', who had been falsely convicted o...
1 memorial
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