The Edgar Wallace

The Edgar Wallace is a public house at 40–41 Essex Street, London WC2, at the corner with Devereux Court.

The pub dates back to 1777, and was originally The Essex Head.

[1] The landlord then was Samuel Greaves, a former servant of the Thrale family where Samuel Johnson had lodged and Johnson and his friend Richard Brocklesby established the Essex Head Club in the tavern in 1783.

[2] It was renamed in 1975 to commemorate the crime writer Edgar Wallace's birth centenary.

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