Lew Mordecai

(1911- ?)

Lewis (Lew) Mordecai was the landlord of first The White Horse and later The Globe, the pubs that hosted London fan meetings from 1946 to 1974.

After some years in the merchant navy, he became the landlord of The White Horse in approximately 1947, about a year after the fan meetings began. In December 1953 he announced that he was being transferred by the brewery to The Globe in nearby Hatton Garden where his father had been the landlord some decades earlier. The fans relocated too, with their first meeting on 10 December 1953 in a pub that was reportedly twice as large and twice as busy. Mordecai continued as landlord until he retired in late 1965. His replacement was Eddy O'Reilly but he never attained the same degree of fannish fame.

Frank Arnold’s ‘Mordecai of the White Horse’ in Eye #3, December 1954, covers The White Horse period and the first year at The Globe. Arthur C. Clarke fictionalised the two pubs as The White Hart and The Sphere in Tales from the White Hart (1957).

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