Alexander Pope - Richmond
Poet
Born 12th May 1688
Died 30th May 1744
Inscription reads:
The site of the Toy Inn, an ancient hostelry of note. Built for Oliver Cromwell’s troops C. 1650, rebuilt C. 1700, demolished
c. 1840, wherein Pope wrote The Rape of the Lock, the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV formed & presided over his
Toy Club, and Thomas Dunckerley founded The Masonic Lodge of Harmony 255 in 1785. The lodge held here for 37 years now
erects this tablet. July 1933.
