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Survey of London
… Estate The site of Soho Square formed part of Kemp's Field or Soho Fields, which were leased on 6 April 1677 by … by Frith and his associate William Pym in the late 1670's and early 1680's refer to the square as Frith's Square, 2 … primarily for residential purposes was No. 1, where Martin Clare established the Soho Academy in 1717; the school …
Survey of London
… (? Casaubon), 16926; Lady Coverley, c. 170312, and Martin Clare, founder of the Soho Academy, who later moved to No. 8, … In 1735 the house was rebuilt by John Sanger of St. James's, carpenter, under a lease granted to him by the three …
Survey of London
… esquire, assigned his lease of the house to Martin Clare, a schoolmaster then occupying No. 1 Soho Square. 72 Clare had first opened his school at No. 1 in 1717, and in a school text-book entitled Youth's Introduction to Trade and Business, which he published in …
Survey of London Monograph
… the then Somerset herald was transferred to the duke's household and as such he must be counted a private officer, … the heralds' fees as a herald extraordinary. On Fitzroy's death in 1536 the then incumbent returned to the Crown … Robert Glover, Somerset. Eldest s. Thomas, poet, etc., of Clare Hall, Cambridge, published inter alia Villare Cantianum …
A Survey of Documentary Sources for Property Holding in London before the Great Fire
… and accounts and surveys of the estates while in the Crown's possession up to 1547. This section also covers the estates … giving details of current leases, and also of the Crown's alienation of individual properties. In the following … i, 51314. 96. London, Minoresses (nuns of the order of St. Clare), abbey of B.V.M. and St. Francis without Aldgate Fd. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… southern boundary passed along the earthwork known as Grim's Dyke; it ran from the corner of Galley Lane, keeping north … swallow holes beyond the parish boundary. Holmshill brook, Clare Hall brook, and the Catherine Bourne are tributaries … briefly: the Prince's Arms, which later formed part of the Clare Hall estate, was recorded in 1683, 33 and the Red Bull, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in the grant of tithes and pannage made by the earl's grandfather Geoffrey to Hurley priory (Berks.), a cell of … exchanged with John Hunter, 11 the owner of Darkes. 12 The Clare Hall or Clay Hall estate originated in c. 40 a. … John Byng at Minorca. 14 After West's death in 1757 Clare Hall passed to his son, who sold it to James Barwick in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 70 The private smallpox hospital 71 that opened at Clare Hall in 1896 was first established in 1746 at Clerkenwell, transferring to King's Cross in 1793 and to Highgate Hill in 1850, before moving … theatre were added in 1937. During the Second World War Clare Hall became an emergency hospital, with huts of brick …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1865, services were held in the schoolroom. St. Gregory's chapel was added in 1870, the eastern part of the nave and … Roman Catholic nunnery which, under the name of St. Monica's priory, used Clare Hall between 1886 and 1896. 99 In 1920 a room at …
Survey of London
… for the erection of five 'small private houses'. Stevenson's elevations were in due course approved, and building work … gardens. Here the principal rooms overlook St. George's Hanover Square Gardens (formerly the burial ground). But … Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister, 183048. 3rd Earl of Clare, 185264. No. 20, J. P. Gandy Deering, architect, …