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3 unusual facts about Tom King's Coffee House


Tom King's Coffee House

Fielding mentions it in both The Covent Garden Tragedy and Pasquin and Tobias Smollett in The Adventures of Roderick Random.

The shacks can be seen in many of the contemporary depictions of the piazza and features prominently in William Hogarth's Four Times of the Day (although it is rotated from its true position for the artistic effect of contrasting it with Inigo Jones' Church of St Paul).

Tom King was born in 1694 to Thomas King, a squire from Thurlow, Essex, and Elizabeth Cordell, the daughter of Baronet Sir John Cordell.


1986 in Northern Ireland

31 March - Tom King, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announces decision to ban the Apprentice Boys Easter Monday Parade, resulting in rioting in Portadown and other parts of the North, police homes attacked with petrol bombs, and 11 Catholic homes petrol-bombed in Lisburn.

Downing Street mortar attack

Those present at the meeting included John Major, David Mellor, Douglas Hurd, Tom King, Norman Lamont, Peter Lilley, John Wakeham, Robin Butler, David Craig, Patrick Mayhew, Percy Cradock, Charles Powell and Gus O'Donnell.

Emmerdale Village's 500th anniversary

Emmerdale Series Producer Kathleen Beedles signed off the much-anticipated reveal episode in which Tom King's killer would finally be uncovered.

Euroradar CAPTOR

An agreement was reached after the British Defence Secretary Tom King assured his West German counterpart Gerhard Stoltenberg that the British government would underwrite the project and allow GEC to acquire Ferranti Defence Systems from its troubled parent.

John Freeth

As the owner of Freeth's Coffee House between 1768 and his death in 1808, he was major figure in the political and cultural life of Birmingham during the Midlands Enlightenment.

Lady Katherine Ferrers

Not all highwaymen were well-born like French aristocrat Claude Duval or James MacLaine, who was the second son of a minister, but this romanticized portrayal extended to such working-class robbers as MacLaine's partner William Plunkett, as well as Richard Ferguson, George Lyons, Richard Ferguson, Tom King, John Nevison, and John Rann.

Nando's Coffee House

It was a favourite haunt of Edward Thurlow, who became Lord Chancellor, and was satirised as being enamoured of the attractive landlady's daughter.

Richard Harding Watt

the King's Coffee House and Gaskell Memorial Tower, is located in the centre of the town, and his series of more eccentric houses stretch along Legh Road, to the southeast of the town.

Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater

He left the Cabinet after the 1992 general election, and returned to the backbenches where he served as Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Select Committee from 1994–2001, during which time KGB agent Vasili Mitrokhin defected to reveal 87-year-old Melita Norwood as a Soviet spy.

King was educated at Rugby School (Sheriff House), an independent school for boys in Warwickshire, before attending Emmanuel College, Cambridge.


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