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Widely lauded as one of the most talented, convivial, and influential actors of all time, David Garrick remains, to this day, an iconic global thespian. Garrick was the theatrical equivalent of a sensation and an overnight one at that. More portraits were painted of Garrick than of King George III; his extensive collection of plays and books, upon his death, was enough to found the library of the British Museum; he introduced methods of acting, staging, and lighting to the theatre as well as financial rewards and sick pay for his actors; and he put Stratford-upon-Avon on the official Shakespeare map at a time when nobody considered the small market town of any significance to anything, let alone to the national poet.

David Garrick was born in Peckham in south east London

Around the time of Thackeray’s visit, the site of the Garrick was occupied by the marble and stone yard of William Low, who later ran a unique combined enterprise of spirit dealer and cement merchant in Victoria square on the site of what is now The Kitchen Bar. At some point during the 30 years that followed, a tavern was established at the corner of Chichester Street and Montgomery Street, and in 1870 McCauley, McCashin and Co, who described themselves as rectifying distillers and wine and spirit merchants, were dispensing drinks at this location.

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It has been said that the famous 18th-century Shakespearean actor David Garrick – who coincidentally was involved in the wine trade before he succumbed to the lure of the stage – once visited this bar for a drink, but that seems a highly unlikely notion. Garrick did visit Ireland on a few occasions, mostly performing in Dublin, but he died in 1779, around a century before the Garrick bar was founded.

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It’s possible, however, that the 'Garrick' name could have been inspired by the Garrick Club, a fashionable London rendezvous which was founded in 1831 as a place where ‘actors and men of education and refinement might meet on equal terms’. The Garrick Club was a favourite watering hole of the author William Thackeray, who visited Belfast in 1842 and for all we know he may have planted the suggestion in someone’s head at that time.

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In 1996 The Temple Trust, in partnership with The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, The Thames Landscape Strategy and The Hampton Riverside Trust, formed a plan to return David Garrick’s historic garden site to its 18th century appearance and to open the Shakespeare Temple to the public on scheduled days – with a cast of the Roubiliac statue of Shakespeare restored to its original niche and a permanent interpretive exhibition mounted within the building. The project architect was Francis Maude of Donald Insall Associates. A total of £133,000 was required for the capital works and this was found through an array of grant-making trusts and through the generosity of individual donors. In addition, The Temple Trust initiated and successfully raised a further £65,000 for a permanent endowment fund in order to assist in the future preservation of the historic building. Overall, a total of 24 trusts and numerous private donors made it possible for us to secure the future of this precious site. In 2006 The Temple Trust transferred responsibility for the contents of Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, as well as the endowment fund, to a newly formed dedicated local trust called The Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare Trust. The new trustees work in close partnership with The London Borough of Richmond to manage the site.

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On the side of the Thames, less than a mile from Hampton Court Palace, stands an exquisite 18th century Temple, conceived in the ancient Ionic manner. This impressive garden building marks the place where David Garrick, the most celebrated actor/manager England has ever produced, chose to commemorate his idol, William Shakespeare.