Landlords, legends, census records, and lost taverns.
St Gregory by St St Pauls pub history index
The Tobits Dog is still listed in 1836, but appears to be "pulled down to enlarge the premises of one of the great linen drapers", i.e. the establishment next door in June 1836. The 1842 street directory shows no mention, although the 1832 directory does. Earlier mentions in 1810 note it as the Tobits Dog coach office, and it is also mentioned in 1802 in coaching terms. In 1833 there is a will of an John Nicol of Bodicote leaving this messuage to his illegitimate son, Henry Nicol. This is probably the ownership of the building rather than the licensing of the premises.
Lockies topegraphy of London in 1810 describes it as "Tobits Dog coach office, St Pauls Church yard : a door or two on the R. from Ludgate street".
A listing of historical London public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in St Gregory by St Pauls parish, City of London.
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In September 1782, Frances Owen alias Sophia Owen stole two quart pewter
pots, of the value of two shillings, and one pint pewter pot, value 8 d. (8
pence) the goods of innkeeper Henry Wells: The Tobit’s Dog, St. Paul’s
Church-yard, London, 22 August 1782
1811/William Vinall, Victualler, Tobits Dog - London Consistency court wills
at the LMA
12 June 1822 / Insured: James Atkins of the Tobits Dog 1 St Pauls Church
Yard victualler/../../Sun Fire
Insurance Records - LMA
December 1824/James Atkins, Tobits Dog, 1 St Pauls Church yard/../../Sun Fire Insurance Records - LMA
1827/James Atkins, Old Tobits Dog, 1 St Pauls Church yard/../../Pigot’s Directory
March 1829/James Atkins, Tobits Dog, 1 St Pauls Church yard/../../Sun Fire Insurance Records - LMA
1832/C Simpson, Tobits Dog, 1 St Pauls Church yard/../../Robsons Directory
1833-34/Thomas Parker, Tobits Dog, 1 St Pauls Church yard/../../Pigots Directory
1834/Mr James Jackson, Tobits Dog, 2 St Pauls Church yard/../../Licensed Victuallers Association
1836/James Jackson, Tobits Dog, 1 St Pauls Church yard/../../Pigots Directory
Royal Cornwall Gazette. Friday, 10 June 1836
Tobits Dog, a public house in the south west corner of St. Pauls churchyard, one of the most ancient and memorable in the metropolis, where Charles the Second and his friend Rochester played many a merry prank, and where wits and bacchanalians of a more recent date have held their nightly revels, has, within the last week, been entirely demolished, together with all its tangible reminiscences, and the plot of ground on which it stood is added to the establishment of Messrs Ellis and Everington.