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Rebuilt King Of Corsica	Picture source: T C
The King Of Corsica was situated at 90 Berwick Street. This pub closed in 2013. Later known as The Endurance and is now used as a restaurant.
The ‘King of Corsica’ pub in Brewer Street, in Brewer Street Market, was a uniquely named pub, called after the adventurer Theodore, King of Corsica, who is buried in the neighbouring St Anne’s Churchyard in Wardour Street. He has a touching epitaph, written by Horace Walpole, as he died a pauper: “Near this place is interred Theodore King of Corsica who died in this parish Dec 11 1756, immediately after leaving the Kings Bench Prison by the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, in consequence of which he registered his Kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors. The grave, great teacher, to a level brings Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings, But Theodore this moral learn’d ere dead: Fate poured its lessons on his living head, Bestow’d a kingdom, and denied him bread.” How sad that he is now only remembered for his tomb, rather than the pub which had a wonderful pub sign with his portrait on it. His portrait that was used for the pub sign is included here. My family worked in Brewer Street from the 1920s to the 1990s, and would have known the pub before it was rebuilt in the 1960s. Whether it was called the King of Corsica before the rebuilding, I do not know.
Martin Kaufman (November 2017)
This was my late brothers work local (People had a work local and a home local back in the day) and it was also a haunt of some celebrities back in the day as the Guvnor, Fred, used to run the Showbiz XI football team from there. The likes of “Diddy” David Hamilton, the aforementioned Dennis Waterman, Richard O’Sullivan, Paul “Rosie” Greenwood, Robin Askwith, Cheryl Hall and Adam Faith amongst others were seen in there regularly.
Mark Bates (May 2022)
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