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Wanderings in London, Piccadilly, Mayfair, and Pall Mall

Chapter 7: INDEX.
By E. Beresford Chancellor
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A guided tour of central West End neighbourhoods that blends topographical description, historical anecdote and social observation. The author moves through streets, squares, houses, clubs, theatres and shops, recording architectural features, vanished sites and the personalities once associated with them. Chapters offer practical orientation with a district map and illustrated plates, and they pair close local detail—addresses, institutions and curiosities—with reflections on changing tastes and urban development. The result is a compact, anecdotal portrait of Piccadilly, Mayfair, Pall Mall and surrounding streets that highlights both surviving landmarks and the traces of a vanished social world.

INDEX.

  • Adam, Robert, 10, 12, 38, 70
  • “ James, 10
  • “ William, 103
  • Addison, 3, 34, 59, 93
  • Adelaide, Queen, 50
  • Albany, The, 80
  • Albemarle, Duke of, 20, 84
  • “ Earl of, 102
  • Albemarle Street, 8
  • Aldford Street, 125
  • Alington House, 121
  • Almack’s, 44
  • Alvanley, Lord, 7
  • “Angler, The Compleat”, 74
  • Anglesea, Marquis of, 93
  • Apsley House, 139
  • Arbuthnot, 11, 96
  • Argyle, The Great Duke of, 109, 139
  • Arlington Street, 34
  • Ashburnham, Earl of, 12
  • Ashburnham House, 12
  • Ashburton, Lord, 19
  • Audley Streets, North and South, 120
  • Avery Row, 108
  • Bach, John Christian, 105
  • Bank of England, 91
  • “Barber’s Pole,” The, 51
  • Bath House, 18
  • Bath, Lord, 18
  • Barry, 45, 46
  • Barrymore House, 23
  • “Barleymow,” The, 21
  • Baring, Alex., 19
  • Barrymore, Earl of, 23
  • Beaconsfield, Lord, 90, 132, 139
  • “Bear, The White”, 78
  • Beechy, Sir Wm., 102
  • Beckford, Wm., 119
  • Bellenden, Mary, 6
  • Berkeley, Bishop, 9, 72
  • “ Chapel, 12, 128
  • “ Hotel, 14
  • “ Row, 14
  • “ Square, 112
  • “ Street, 14
  • Berry, The Misses, 122, 132
  • Betterton, 65
  • Blake, Wm., 106
  • Blessington, Lady, 140
  • Blount, Martha and Theresa, 17
  • “Blue Posts,” The, 56
  • Bolton Street, 17
  • Bolingbroke, Lord, 11
  • Bond, Sir Thos., 8, 83
  • Bond Street, Old and New, 84, 86
  • Boswell, 21, 43, 86
  • Bouverie, Jack, 17
  • Brodie, Sir Benjamin, 95
  • Brook House, 136
  • “ Street, 106
  • Broughton, 60
  • Brougham, Lord, 111, 113, 127
  • Brouncker, P.R.A., 43
  • “Brown, Capability”, 134
  • Brummell, Beau, 7, 16, 41, 54, 126, 130, 134
  • Bruton Street, 109
  • Buckingham, Duchess of, 34
  • Buckingham Palace, 32
  • “Bull and Mouth,” The, 75
  • Bunsen, Baron, 122, 132
  • Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, 16
  • Burgoyne, General, 134
  • Burke, Edmund, 106
  • Burlington, Lord, 53, 79
  • Burlington Arcade, 83
  • Burlington Gardens, 92
  • “ House, 81
  • “ Street, 92
  • Burney, Fanny, 18, 21, 125
  • Bute, Earl of, 121
  • Bute House, 121
  • Bute, Lord, 10, 33, 121
  • Byng, Admiral, 129
  • Byron, Lord, 10, 14, 27, 50, 81
  • Cambridge, Duke of, 22, 26, 45
  • Cambridge House, 22
  • Camden, Lord, 35, 129
  • Camelford, Lord, 89
  • Campbell (Poet), 16, 33, 105
  • Campbell, Colin (Architect), 82
  • “ Sir Colin, 113
  • Canning, George, 81, 98, 111
  • Canterbury, Lord, 113
  • Carleton, Lord, 53
  • Carlton Hotel, 64
  • “ House, 52
  • Carlyle, Thos., 19
  • Caroline, Queen, 70, 122
  • Carter, Mrs., 21
  • Catherine Street, 52
  • Catherine of Braganza, 52
  • Cato Street, 118
  • Cavendish, Lord George, 81
  • Cecils, Home of the, 34
  • Chantrey, 33, 102, 132
  • Chapel of the Trinity, 97
  • Charles II., 31, 36
  • Charles Edward, Prince, 18
  • “ Street, 130
  • Charlotte, Princess, 49, 55, 94
  • Chatham, Lord, 75
  • “ “, the second, 113
  • Chaworth, Mr., 14, 51
  • Chesterfield House, 120
  • Chesterfield, Lord, 22, 37, 53, 75, 120
  • Chesterfield Street, 139
  • Child, Mr. (Banker), 113
  • Chocolate House, Arthur’s, 41
  • “ “, St. James’s 42
  • “ “, White’s 4, 37
  • Cholmondeley House, 22
  • Christie’s, 44
  • Chudleigh, Miss, 85, 99
  • Cibber, Colley, 61, 113
  • Clarendon House, 2, 3, 8, 84
  • Clarges, Sir Thos., 20
  • “ Sir Walter, 20
  • Clarges Street, 20
  • Clarges House, 20
  • Claridge’s Hotel, 108
  • Clark, Sir James, 105
  • Clermont, Lord and Lady, 113
  • Cleveland, Duchess of, 34
  • Cleveland House, 32, 34
  • “ Row, 32
  • “ Square, 32
  • Clifford Street, 94
  • Clive, Lord, 113
  • Club, Ambassadors’, 25
  • “ Arthur’s, 41, 43
  • “ Army and Navy, 46, 69, 70
  • “ Athenæum, 46
  • “ Badminton, 23
  • “ Boodles’, 38
  • “ Brooks’s, 39
  • “ Caledonian, 68
  • “ Carlton, 45
  • “ Civil Service, 42
  • “ Cocoa Tree, 41, 42
  • “ Conservative, 43
  • “ Coventry House, 25
  • “ Crockford’s, 38, 39
  • “ Devonshire, 38, 41
  • “ East India, 69, 70
  • “ Green Park, 111
  • “ Guards’, 50
  • “ “In and Out”, 22
  • “ Isthmian, 23
  • “ Junior Athenæum, 26
  • “ “ Carlton, 45
  • “ “ Constitutional, 23
  • “ “ Naval and Military, 23
  • “ “ Oxford and Camb., 50
  • “ “ United Service, 68
  • “ Lyceum, 20
  • “ Naval and Military, 22
  • “ New, 111
  • “ New University, 41
  • “ Nimrod, 69
  • “ Liberty, 51
  • “ Oriental, 104
  • “ Oxford and Cambridge, 50
  • “ Portland, 69
  • “ Reform, 45
  • “ Rumpsteak, 51
  • “ Savile, 25
  • “ Sports, 69
  • “ St. James’s, 25
  • “ Thatched House, 42
  • “ Travellers’, 46
  • “ Turf, 111
  • “ United Empire, 20
  • “ United University, 63
  • “ Watier’s, 16
  • “ White’s, 36, 38
  • “ Wyndham’s, 69
  • “Coach and Horses,” The, 99
  • “The Cocoa Tree”, 42
  • Coffee House, The Clifford Street, 93
  • “ “ Grant’s, 37
  • “ “ Gloucester, 13
  • “ “ King’s Arms, 51
  • “ “ Prince of Wales’, 98
  • “ “ St. James’s, 4, 37
  • Cobden, Richard, 64
  • “The Cock”, 56
  • Cockspur Street, 56
  • Coke, Lady Mary, 6, 125
  • Colt, Sir Henry, 30
  • Colman, Geo., 19, 62
  • Combe, Alderman, 41
  • Conduit Mead, 97
  • “ Street, 96
  • Constitution Hill, 1
  • Congreve (Dramatist), 65
  • Cooper, Sir Astley, 98
  • Cope, Sir John, 34
  • Cork, Earl of, 94
  • “ Lady, 93
  • Cork Street, 76
  • Corticelli, 64
  • Cosway, Richard, 14, 48, 100
  • Cotton, Sir Vincent, 13
  • Coutts (Banker), 16
  • Coventry, Lord, 25, 86
  • Cowper, Lord Chancellor, 102
  • Coxe, Archdeacon, 11
  • Craggs (Secretary), 34, 72
  • Crewe House, 129
  • Crewe, Mrs., 54
  • Cricket Club, The First, 51
  • Crown Court, 43, 50
  • Curzon Chapel, 132
  • “ Street, 131
  • Damer, Col., 39
  • D’Arblay, General, 18
  • “ Madame, 18, 21, 125
  • Dashwood, Sir Francis, 104
  • Davies, of Ebury, Mary, 116
  • “ Street, 116
  • Davis, Moll (Actress), 64, 71
  • Davy, Sir Humphrey, 47, 109, 123
  • Deanery Street, 126
  • Delaney, Mrs., 18, 20, 22, 75, 88, 107
  • Denham, Lord, 82
  • Denman House, 80
  • Derby, Earl of, 68, 101
  • Devonshire, Duchess of, 15, 54
  • “ Duke of, 41
  • Devonshire House, 14, 15
  • Dilettanti, Society of, 42, 111
  • Dodsley (Publisher), 50, 75
  • Dorant’s Hotel, 10
  • Dorchester House, 137
  • Douglas, Jas. (Author), 16
  • Dover, Lord, 11
  • Dover Street, 11
  • Down Street, 26
  • Downshire House, 104
  • Ducking-Pond Row, 110
  • Dudley House, 136
  • Edgworth, Maria, 122
  • Eglinton Tournament, 44
  • Egremont House, 22
  • Egremont, Second Earl of, 22
  • Eldon, Lord, 33, 138
  • Eliot, George, 101
  • Elgin, Lord, 26
  • Ely House, 12
  • Farm Street, 128
  • Farquhar, Sir Walter, 98
  • Farren, Nellie (Actress), 99, 124
  • Fitzherbert, Mrs., 54, 111, 127
  • Fonthill, 119
  • Foote (Manager), 62
  • Fox, Charles James, 7, 10, 34, 43, 98, 111, 113, 126
  • Francis, Sir Philip, 41, 54, 70
  • Fribourg’s (Haymarket), 60
  • Gainsborough, Thomas, 48
  • Gallini, 66
  • Garrick, David, 40
  • Garth, Sir Samuel, 59
  • George Street, 99
  • George II., 36
  • “ III., Birthplace of, 68
  • Gibbon (Historian), 9, 38, 40, 42, 43, 74, 86
  • Gibbons, Grinling, 73
  • Gillray (Caricaturist), 12, 38, 75
  • Glover, “Leonidas”, 10
  • Gloucester Coffee House, 13
  • “ House, 26
  • “Golden Door,” The, 51
  • “Golden Lion,” The, 21
  • “Golden Pestle and Mortar,” The, 51
  • Gordon, Lord George, 124
  • Grafton, Duke of, 110
  • “ Galleries, 111
  • “ Street, 110
  • Granville, Lord, 110, 120, 139
  • Gray (Poet), 72
  • “Green Man and Still,” The, 14
  • Green Park, 29
  • Grenville, Geo., 18, 124
  • “ Thomas, 15, 33
  • Grey (Dramatist), 33
  • “The Greyhound”, 25
  • Grillion’s Hotel, 10
  • Grosvenor House, 125, 136
  • Grosvenor, Sir Richard, 108
  • “ Sir Thomas, 116
  • Grosvenor Square, 115, 117
  • “ Street, 108, 125
  • “ Street, Upper, 124
  • Grote, George (Historian), 94
  • Gunning, The Sisters, 25, 87, 133
  • Gwyn, Nell, 48, 85
  • Halfmoon Street, 21
  • Hamilton, Duke of, 5, 35, 50, 133
  • “ Lady, 21, 99
  • “ Place, 27, 138
  • “ Sir William, 99
  • “ “Single-speech”, 105, 124
  • Hampden House, 123
  • Handel, 65, 66, 107
  • Hanover Square, 102
  • “ “ Concert Rooms, 105
  • Harewood House, 103
  • Harley, Earl of Oxford, 11
  • Harley, Robert, 37
  • Hart, Emma (Lady Hamilton), 21, 99
  • Hastings, Warren, 34, 140
  • Hay Hill, 14, 111
  • Hayes Street, 129
  • Haymarket, 57
  • “ Theatre, 60
  • Heidegger, 65, 66
  • “Hercules’ Pillars”, 21
  • Hertford, Marquis of, 24
  • Hertford Street, 133
  • Hervey, Lord, 5, 6, 92
  • Hesketh, Lady, 124
  • Hill, Aaron, 25
  • Hill Street, 129
  • Hirsch, Baron, 20
  • His Majesty’s Theatre, 60, 64
  • Hoby (Bootmaker), 47
  • Hogarth, Wm., 77
  • Holford, Sir Henry, 132
  • Holland (Architect), 53
  • “ Sir Henry, 125
  • Hook, Theodore, 1, 33, 39
  • Hope, H. T., 26
  • “Horse-Shoe, The”, 21
  • Hume (Historian), 40
  • Hunter, 77
  • Huskisson, Wm., 109
  • Hyde Park Corner, 25, 27
  • Institute of Painters in Watercolours, 79
  • Institution, Royal, 10
  • Jekyll, 47
  • Jenner, Dr., 107, 139
  • Jenyns, Soame, 127
  • Jermyn Street, 11, 72
  • “ “ Origin of name of, 73
  • Jordan, Mrs. (Actress), 103
  • Johnson, Dr., 1, 43, 71, 118, 119, 121, 127
  • John Street, Pall Mall, 47, 128
  • Jones, Sir Thomas, 13
  • Kauffmann, Angelica, 109
  • Kean, Edmund, 21
  • Keith, Rev. Alex., 132
  • Kemble, Mrs. Chas., 21
  • Kent (Architect), 14
  • Kingston, Duke of, 34, 85, 99
  • King Street (St. James’s), 43
  • “King’s Arms,” The, 51
  • Lansdowne House, 14, 111
  • “ Passage, 14
  • Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 47, 87
  • Leicester Square, 75, 76
  • Leigh, Bob, 17
  • Le Telier’s Hotel, 12
  • Lepel, Molly, 6, 34
  • Lieven, Prince, 12
  • Lind, Jenny, 67
  • Lindhurst, Lord, 111
  • Lindsay, Lady Anne, 113
  • Locker-Lampson, 23
  • Londonderry House, 138
  • London Library, 69
  • London University, 79
  • Long’s Hotel, 87
  • Louis XVIII., 10, 122
  • Lowther, Rt. Hon. James, 108
  • Lynedoch, Lord, 16
  • Lytton, Bulwer, Lord, 81, 130, 134, 140
  • Macclesfield, Countess of, 86
  • Macintosh, Sir James, 10
  • Macaulay, Lord, 21, 33, 81
  • Mackreth, 37, 41
  • MacSwiney, Owen, 65
  • Maddox Street, 99
  • Mallet, 101
  • Malmesbury, Lord, 10, 129
  • Mann, Sir Horace, 51
  • Mario, 67
  • Market Street, 58
  • Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, 49
  • “ Great Duke of, 49, 72, 131
  • Marlborough House, 49
  • Martindale, 37
  • Mason (Poet), 33
  • Mayfair, 115
  • Mayfair, Origin of name of, 115, 116
  • Melbourne, Lord, 18, 21, 126
  • “Milk Ladies” of St. James’ Park, 128
  • Mitford, William (Author), 21
  • Mohun, Lord, 5, 50
  • Montagu, Mrs., 129
  • Montes, Lola, 21, 99
  • Moore, Thomas, 33, 73, 117
  • Morland, George, 59
  • Motley, J. L., 35
  • Mount Street, 125
  • Murray, John (Publisher), 10
  • Napoleon III., 43
  • Nash (Architect), 12, 55, 77
  • Nelson, Lord, 88
  • Newburgh, Lady, 69
  • Newton, Sir Isaac, 72
  • Niccolini, 65
  • Nightingale, Florence, 126
  • Nivernois, Duc de, 9
  • Norfolk House, 68
  • Norfolk Street, 124
  • North, Lord, 108, 118
  • Northcote (Artist), 86
  • Northumberland, Countess of, 37
  • Novosielski (Architect), 23, 66
  • O’Brien, Nellie (Actress), 123
  • O’Neil, Miss (Actress), 20
  • Oldfield, Nance, 59-60
  • Oliver’s Mound, 117
  • Opera House, Pall Mall, 64
  • Overstone, Lord, 124
  • Oxford, Harley, Earl of, 11, 103
  • Pall Mall, 44
  • Pall Mall Taverns, 50
  • “ Origin of name of, 52
  • “ Place, 50
  • Palmerston, Lord, 23, 45, 69, 127
  • Park Lane, 26, 135
  • “ Street, 120
  • Parnell (Poet), 34
  • Peel, Sir Robert, 31, 123, 127
  • Pelham, Henry, 34
  • Peterborough, Earl of, 18
  • Phœnix Inn Yard, 58
  • Piccadilly, 1
  • “ Butchers, 16
  • “ Circus, 75
  • “ Hotel, 79
  • “ Origin of name of, 7, 8
  • “ Terrace, 27
  • “ Turnpike, 28
  • Pickadilla Hall, 8, 77
  • Picton, Sir Thomas, 88, 89
  • Pitt, William, 95, 110, 113
  • Pope, Alexander, 3, 5, 11, 43
  • Porters’ Rest, 25
  • Portland, Duke of, 19
  • Portugal Street, 52, 78
  • Pozzo-di-Borgo, 12
  • Probyn, Capt., 13
  • Pulteney, Earl of Bath, 5, 18, 19, 34
  • Pulteney Hotel, 24
  • “Old Q.,” Duke of Queensberry, 7, 24, 27, 75
  • Queensberry, Duchess of, 6
  • “Queen’s Arms,” Pall Mall, 50
  • Queen Victoria, Attempt on life of, 32
  • Queen Caroline, 70, 122
  • Quaritch (Bookseller), 79
  • Raggett, 37
  • Raglan, Lord, 128
  • Raikes (Diarist), 17, 24, 118
  • “ Robert, 118
  • Regent, The Prince, 15, 53, 55
  • Reid, Hon. Whitelaw, 137
  • Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 11, 39, 77
  • Ritz Hotel, 23, 35
  • Robinson, Mrs. (“Perdita”), 34
  • Rodney, Lord, 33, 105
  • Rogers (Poet), 10, 33
  • Romney, Geo., 99
  • Rosebery, Earl of, 113
  • Rothschild, Leopold de, 139
  • “ Nathan, 25
  • Roxburgh, Duke of, 103
  • Royal Academy, 83
  • “ Institution, 10
  • “Rule Britannia” (Authorship), 101
  • Russell, Lord William, 124
  • Sackville Street, 78
  • St. Alban’s Street, 58
  • St. Alban’s, Duke of, 85
  • St. Anselm, Church of, 117
  • St. George’s, Hanover Square, 98
  • St. James’s Church, 73
  • “ Coffee House, 4
  • “ Hall, 79
  • “ Hotel, 14
  • “ Market, 58
  • “ Palace, 35, 44
  • “ Place, 33, 34
  • “ Square, 68
  • “ Street, 35
  • Salisbury, Lord, 34
  • Savile Place, 95
  • Savile Row, 95
  • Schomberg, Duke of, 48
  • Schomberg House, 48, 51
  • Scott, Sir Walter, 54, 73
  • Secker, Archbishop, 74
  • Sefton, Lord, 35
  • Selwyn, George, 6, 33, 40, 42, 87
  • Shackleton (Painter), 14
  • Shaftesbury, Lord, 120
  • Shelley, 21, 126
  • Shelburne, Earl of, 102
  • Sheridan, R. Brinsley, 40, 95, 102, 110, 133
  • Six Bell Alley, 58
  • Smirke (Architect), 45
  • Smith, Adam, 64
  • “ Sidney, 33, 73, 101, 106, 122, 127 130
  • Smith, J. T., 44
  • “Smyrna,” The, 51
  • Society of British Artists, 64
  • Somerset, Duchess of, 37
  • South Street, Mayfair, 126
  • Soyer, Alexis, 45
  • Spencer House, 33
  • Spong, M. H., 33
  • “Sporus,” (Lord Hervey), 5, 30
  • “Spread Eagle,” The, 75
  • Stael, Madame de, 101
  • Stafford House, 32
  • Standish, Sir Frank, 38
  • Stanhope Street, Great, 127
  • “Star and Garter,” Pall Mall, 14, 50
  • Steele, Richard, 4, 24
  • Stepney, Sir Thomas, 17
  • Sterne, Laurence, 86
  • Stevens’ Hotel, 89
  • Stratford de Redcliffe, Lord, 118
  • Stowell, Lord, 33
  • Stratton Street, 15
  • Stuart, James (Architect), 33
  • Stuart, La Belle, 72
  • “Sugar Loaf,” The, 51
  • Suffolk, Lady, 6, 95
  • Suffolk Street, 63
  • Sunderland House, 131
  • Sutton, Manners, 113
  • “Swan, The”, 21
  • Swift, Dean, 4, 86
  • Talleyrand, Prince, 46, 104
  • Tankerville, Lord, 51
  • Tart Hall, 29
  • Taylor, Sir Robert, 12
  • Tenison, Archbishop, 74, 97
  • Thatched House Court, 42
  • Thatched House Club, 42
  • Theatre, His Majesty’s, 60, 64
  • “ Haymarket, 60
  • Thomson, James (Poet), 88, 91, 101
  • Tierney (Politician), 96, 111
  • Tierney, Sir Matthew, 111
  • Tietjens, Madame, 67
  • Tilney Street, 126
  • Townshend, Lord, 33
  • Turnpike, The Piccadilly, 28
  • Tyburn Lane, 135
  • Tyburn, The, 106, 112
  • Tyburn Tree, 135
  • Ude (Chef), 35, 39
  • Uxbridge House, 93
  • Vanbrugh, Sir John, 64
  • Vandergucht, Gerard, 107
  • Vancouver (Traveller), 98
  • Vanderveld (Painter), 74
  • Van Nost (Architect), 23
  • Vardy (Architect), 33
  • Vesey, Mrs., 18
  • Vestris, Madame, 132
  • Victoria, Queen, Attempt on life of, 32
  • Vigo Street, 94
  • Wake, Archbishop, 74
  • Wales, Frederick, Prince of, 53
  • Wales, George, Prince of, 53
  • Wallace, Sir Richard, 24
  • Waller, 43
  • Walpole, Horace, 6, 22, 33, 37, 40, 43, 109
  • “ Sir Robert, 12, 34
  • War Office, Old, 48
  • Warwick House, 55
  • “ Street, 55
  • Warwick, Sir Philip, 55
  • Watier (Chef), 16, 17
  • Watiers’ Club, 16
  • Watkin Williams Wynn, Sir, 70
  • Waverton Street, 128
  • Wellington, Duke of, 27, 39, 45, 54, 93, 139
  • Wernher, Sir Julius, 20
  • West (Painter), 78
  • Western Exchange, The, 91
  • Wharton, Duke of, 5, 11, 98
  • “White Bear,” The, Piccadilly, 78
  • “White Horse,” The, 21
  • “White Horse Cellar”, 12
  • White, Miss Lydia, 123
  • White’s Chocolate House, 4
  • Whitehead (Poet), 37
  • Wilberforce, 38, 40, 98
  • Wilbraham, Rodger, 41
  • Wilkes (Demagogue), 10, 34
  • William IV., 130
  • Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, 19
  • Willis’s Rooms, 44
  • Wimborne, Lord, 35
  • Wolfe, General, 43, 92
  • “Woods, at the Pell Mell”, 51
  • Worcester, Lord, 13
  • Wortley-Montagu, Lady Mary, 6, 34, 102
  • Wright, Whittaker, 138
  • Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 112
  • Wyndham, Sir William, 11
  • Yarborough, Lord, 34, 35
  • York, Edward, Duke of, 6, 32
  • York, James, Duke of, 31
  • Zoffany (Painter), 10