clutterback

Updated: June 21, 2025

Its members included James Clutterback, the city merchant who gave Garrick invaluable financial aid when he started at Drury Lane, and John Paterson, that helpful solicitor whom the actor selected as one of his executors. These admirers of "little David" were a temperate set; "they were 'none of them drinkers, and in order to make a reckoning called only for French wine."

Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley - Inns and Taverns of Old London