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Robert Walpole, Edmund Kean, and Fountain Tavern, London brown plaque
Robert Walpole · Member of Parliament
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“In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met using the title of the Fountain Club Also the Coal Hole the meeting place of the Wolf Club of which about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading member”
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1676-1745
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Robert Walpole
father of Horace Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, father of Robert Walpole, son of Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, Member of Parliament, Privy Counsellor, Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath, Leader of the House of Commons, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Member of Parliament, Member of Parliament, Baron Houghton, Knight of the Order of the Garter, and Viscount Walpole · (1676-1745)
Edmund Kean
tragic actor · (1787-1833)
Fountain Tavern, London
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