The Marquis of Granby

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The Marquis of Granby is a public house at 2 Rathbone Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1. The pub is named after John Manners, Marquess of Granby. He is popularly supposed to have more pubs named after him than any other person – due, it is said, to his practice of setting up old soldiers of his regiment as publicans when they were too old to serve.[1]

The poet and playwright T. S. Eliot is associated with the pub.[2] According to Time Out, the poet Dylan Thomas was a regular visitor, who frequented the pub to meet guardsmen who were cruising for gay partners, and then start fights with them.[3]

The pub appears on Chapter XXVII of The Pickwick Papers (1836) by Charles Dickens.[4]

See also

  • Pub names

References

  1. ^ "The Marquis of Granby – history". Marquis-Covent Garden. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  2. ^ Rustin, Susanna (7 August 2012). "Walking tour of London's literary pubs". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  3. ^ Rutter, Alan (17 March 2008). "Treasure hunt: literary Fitzrovia". Time Out. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  4. ^ Dickens, Charles. The Pickwick Papers – via Wikisource.
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