The Marquis of Granby | |
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Etymology | From John Manners, Marquess of Granby |
General information | |
Address | 2 Rathbone Street, Fitzrovia |
Town or city | London |
Country | England |
Coordinates | 51°31′05″N 0°08′05″W / 51.518059°N 0.134680°W |
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]