The Marquis of Granby

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.

[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.