Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr03thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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lity. He was the Omri of Drydens Absalom and Achitophel— To whom the double blessing does belong,With Moses inspiration, Aarons tongue. Many other distinguished personages lived hereabout this time; but, says Parton, the appro- his house was taken by the Commissioners ofTrade and Plantations. The Duke of Buckingham,the Earl of Lauderdale, Sir John Finch, Waller thepoet, and Colonel Titus (author of Killing no Murder), were among its new occupants. At Conway House, in this street, lived Lord Conway, an able soldier, defeated by the Scotch at Newburn.In the year 1733 the Earl of Rochford lived in Great Queen Street; here, too, about that time,lived Lady Dinely Goodyer, and Mrs. Kitty Clive the actress. It would be difticult, at this distantdate, to fix upon the exact house in which any ofthese notabilities resided, for the ))ractice of num-bering was not in use till 1764 ; liurlington Streethaving been the fi-rst and Lincolns Inn Fields the St. Giles's-in-the-Fields) LORD HERBERTS HOUSE. 211
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Middle Row, St Giles's. 212 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. second place in London where it was adopted. Sir Martin Ffolkes, an eminent scholar and antiquary,was born in Great Queen Street in 1690. He wasa great numismatist, and the first President of theRoyal Society of Antiquaries. He died in 1784. In 17 So the Gordon Riots may be said to havehad their rise in Great Queen Street, the firstmeeting in favour of the petition presented byLord George Gordon to Parliament, asking for therepeal of a measure of relief granted to the RomanCatholics, having been held in Coachmakers Hall, in this street, on the 29th of ^Lay. On the rejectionof the petition, on the 2nd of June, the mob burntthe Roman Catholic chapels in Duke Street, Lin-colns Inn Fields, and Welbeck Street. On thefollowing days they proceeded to further excesses,and on the 6th of June the house of Mr. Justice Cox, in Great Queen Street, was burned, togetherwith the houses of other magistrates who had be-come obnoxious. The rest of the sto

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