Edgar Wallace is usually thought of foremost as a crime writer, and perhaps secondly as a journalist. As a large sign on the Edgar Wallace pub in Essex Street notes, Wallace was associated with nearby Fleet Street for a long time: he began at the age of eleven by selling newspapers in Ludgate Circus, where there is a bronze plaque with his likeness, although it escaped my memory on my last visit to London.
Almost directly across the street from the pub is a plaque which states:
'ESSEX STREET
was laid out in the grounds
of Essex House by
NICHOLAS BARBON in 1675
Among many famous lawyers
who lived here were
Sir ORLANDO BRIDGEMAN c.1606-1674
Lord Keeper.
HENRY FIELDING 1707-1754
Novelist and
BRASS CROSBY 1725-1793
Lord Mayor of London.
JAMES SAVAGE 1779-1852 Architect
has his office here.
PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART
stayed at a house in the street
in 1750.
Rev. THEOPHILUS LINDSEY 1723-1808
Unitarian Minister
founded Essex Street Chapel here
in 1774.
Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON
established an evening club at
the "Essex Head" in 1783.'
was laid out in the grounds
of Essex House by
NICHOLAS BARBON in 1675
Among many famous lawyers
who lived here were
Sir ORLANDO BRIDGEMAN c.1606-1674
Lord Keeper.
HENRY FIELDING 1707-1754
Novelist and
BRASS CROSBY 1725-1793
Lord Mayor of London.
JAMES SAVAGE 1779-1852 Architect
has his office here.
PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART
stayed at a house in the street
in 1750.
Rev. THEOPHILUS LINDSEY 1723-1808
Unitarian Minister
founded Essex Street Chapel here
in 1774.
Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON
established an evening club at
the "Essex Head" in 1783.'
Hannen Swaffer and Edgar Wallace
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