| The Marquis of Granby | |
| Map Type: | United Kingdom London Westminster#London |
| Map Dot Label: | The Marquis of Granby |
| Etymology: | From John Manners, Marquess of Granby |
| Address: | 2 Rathbone Street, Fitzrovia |
| Location City: | London |
| Location Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 51.5181°N -0.1347°W |
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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]