Crown and Anchor, Strand

The Crown and Anchor, also written Crown & Anchor and earlier known as The Crown, was a public house in Arundel Street, off The Strand in London, England, famous for meetings of political (particularly the early 19th-century Radicals) and various other groups.[1] It is no longer in existence.[2]

The Crown and Anchor tavern is visible on the right. The Church on the left is St Clement Danes.

The first tavern built on the site sometime before 1710[2] accommodated the Academy of Vocal Music[3] and the Royal Society, and Samuel Johnson and James Boswell dined here during the 18th century. A second tavern was built in 1790, and both this and its earlier incarnation may have been called The Crown. Its rooms were large and able to accommodate 2,500 people, leading to its use as a venue for political meetings, particularly by the Radicals, including John Cam Hobhouse and Charles James Fox.[2] One meeting was addressed by the Irish leader and MP in the United Kingdom Parliament, Daniel O'Connell.[1][4]

The Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers, founded by John Reeves in 1792, were known as the Crown and Anchor Society or Association.[2]

References
  1. "Crown and Anchor, Strand: London coffee houses and taverns". London coffee house and taverns. 10 September 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  2. "Crown and Anchor, Strand". London Corresponding Society Meeting Places. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  3. "Gates, Bernard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  4. Parolin, Christina (2010). "4. Radicalism and reform at the 'Gate of Pandemonium': the Crown and Anchor tavern in visual culture, 1790–1820". Radical Spaces: Venues of popular politics in London, 1790–c. 1845. ANU E Press. ISBN 9781921862014. Retrieved 24 December 2020.

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