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The Edgar Wallace

The Edgar Wallace in 2010

The Edgar Wallace is a public house at 40–41 Essex Street, London WC2, at the corner with Devereux Court.

The pub dates back to 1777, and was originally The Essex Head.[1] The landlord then was Samuel Greaves, a former servant of the Thrale family where Samuel Johnson had lodged and Johnson and his friend Richard Brocklesby established the Essex Head Club in the tavern in 1783.[2]

It was renamed in 1975 to commemorate the crime writer Edgar Wallace's birth centenary.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Essex Street" in Christopher Hibbert; Ben Weinreb; John Keay; Julia Keay (2010). The London Encyclopaedia. London: Pan Macmillan. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-230-73878-2.
  2. ^ James Sambrook, "Essex Head Club (act. 1783–1794)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004–2016. Retrieved 17 November 2016. (subscription required)
  3. ^ Edgar Wallace, London. Robert Gale, Travels with Beer. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
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