Pall Mall Restaurant

The building in 2008

The Pall Mall Restaurant was a hostelry situated at Number 1 Cockspur Street, Westminster, London, just off Pall Mall and near Trafalgar Square.^[1]^[2] The site was subsequently the offices of the White Star Line, and was then occupied by a Tex Mex restaurant, the Texas Embassy Cantina. Currently the site is unused.

The Pall Mall restaurant is chiefly notable for being the place where the Rugby Football Union was founded on 26 January 1871.^[3]^[4] 32 men from 21 clubs met and set up the sport's governing committee.^[5] A wall plaque commemorating the event was unveiled in 1971 by the Union's president, Sir William Ramsay.^[6]^[7]

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^ "On This Day - Jan 26, 1973 - Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers is born". The Irish News. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
^ Hibbert, Christopher; Weinreb, Ben (2008). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
^ Marshall, F. (2015). Football: The Rugby Union Game. Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-108-08394-2. Retrieved December 9, 2017.
^ Rowley, C. (2015). The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, and Soccer. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-4422-4619-5. Retrieved December 9, 2017.
^ Norridge, Julian (2008). Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please?: How the British Invented Sport. Penguin Books. pp. 254–. ISBN 978-0-14-190337-8.
^ "Pall Mall Restaurant". Plaques of London. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
^ Staff Reporter (31 January 1971). "Competition in Rugby!". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 64. Retrieved 10 December 2017.