Samuel Johnson Joshua Reynolds

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# 9 Gerrard Street Standing before the Turk's Head Tavern on this narrow Soho street in 1764, Dr. Samuel Johnson and Joshua Reynolds made a decision that would reshape English intellectual life: they founded The Club, a society dedicated to candid conversation among the finest minds of the age. Wha...

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9 Gerrard Street

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Here in the former Turk's Head Tavern Dr Samuel Johnson & Joshua Reynolds founded The Club in 1764