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Classical scholars were also said to congregate there, and on one occasion, two of them fought a duel in the street outside because they fell out over where to position the accent on an Ancient Greek word.
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By 1803, the Grecian was no longer the meeting place of radicals, scholars and scientists but of lawyers and it finally closed in 1843, becoming a pub. The site is now occupied by
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Larry Stewart, 'Other centres of calculation, or, where the Royal Society didn't count: commerce, coffee-houses and natural philosophy in early modern London',
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In the 1760s and 1770s it was a favourite haunt of Irish law students, especially "the Templers", those young Irishmen who were studying at the
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The enterprise proved a success and, by 1677, Constantine had been able to move his premises to a more central location in
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Steve Pincus, '"Coffee Politicians does Create": Coffeehouses and Restoration Political Culture',
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Jonathan Harris, 'The Grecian coffee house and political debate in London, 1688-1714',
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was a coffee house, first established in about 1665 at Wapping Old Stairs in
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Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar: A Literary Biography
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was the favourite coffee-house in London of the renowned
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London
United Kingdom
Devereux Court
Fleet Street
Whigs
John Trenchard
Matthew Tindal
Royal Society
Isaac Newton
Hans Sloane
Edmund Halley
James Douglas
Joseph Addison
Middle Temple
Oliver Goldsmith
Henry Grattan
Shakespearean
Edmond Malone
Mr. Scott
The Devereux
Grade II listed
Martin 2005
Historic England
"The Devereux Public House (1066888)"
National Heritage List for England
Martin, Peter
ISBN
0-521-61982-3
ISBN

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