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Survey of London
… what with waiting for an omnibus, and its stoppages when I got in, I found myself at a quarter to four O'clock, just … Joseph Toms junior's older sister Christiana had married Charles Derry, a draper, and in 1860 Derry established … close links were maintained. 125 Meanwhile in about 1869 Charles Derry took into formal partnership Joseph junior's …
Survey of London
… later M.P. and Master of the Mint (1719), and Sir Charles Wager, the admiral and victor of Cartagena ( c. … were assured that it was built in the reign of James I as a hunting box, for his Majesty, and contained a haunted … But above the first floor the designer (conceivably Charles M. Hudson, a twenty-six-year-old architect visiting …
Survey of London
… of leases for No. 5 to Thomas Dicks Carter of Upper Charles Street, builder, and for No. 6 to William White, timber merchant); John Holwell (No. 7); Charles James Morris and John Osborn of Parliament Square, … 1975, pp. 2932. P.P.R., will of John Inderwick, 1867. I.L.N. 28 Dec. 1867, p. 703. Robert S. Watson, Christ Church, …
Old and New London
… the historian, biographer, and critic, and the friend of Charles Dickens. A broad roadway, leading from the High … houses: "Scpulchri Immemor struis domos." "Nay," said he, "I am memor sepulchri, for this house will always let for so … CONDUIT. Mr. John Forster has told us, in his "Life of Charles Dickens," how the latter met Thackeray at the Athenum …
Survey of London
… 19. 54 The first occupant of No. 2, from 1689 to 1692, was Charles Hellow, citizen and haberdasher, and the first … and first inhabited in about 1689, had been erected by Charles Woodfield, a painter, presumably operating under a …
Survey of London
… of the College Council, headed by the veteran builder Sir Charles Freake, who had made a fortune as a speculator in … were Daniel Narraway, carpenter John Barnes, bricklayer, Charles Woodfield, painter, and John Wilkinson, paviour. A … reception rooms have lost their panelling, except i window embrasures. They too have a mid- to Georgian …
Survey of London
… Gratwick. 273 Later occupants include: Captain (Admiral) Charles Wager Purvis, c. 17507, and Alexander Ramsay … time they agreed to sell the school buildings to the Rev. Charles Tabor Ackland, one of the assistant masters. The … G.L.C., Historic Buildings Division, file 122, part I. Wiltshire Record Office, Acc. 743, assignment of mortgage, …
Survey of London
… rebuilt about the same time, probably to the designs of Charles R. Guy Hall, architect (Plate 21b). 489 Finally, in … Most Convenient house in Kensington as at a Great Expense I made it so 495 What exactly he did in the way of … in the previous year and abutting northward on the narrow Charles Place. 523 The building comprises shops, flats and …
Survey of London
… Rolls to Kent House appears to be in the year 1762, when Charles Wingfield surrenders "The Mansion House with the … East." There is, however, no reference to the date of Charles Wingfield's admission. The surrender quoted above is …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… pp. 4, 40. John de Kentmer, a juror; Lancs. Inq., pt. i, 236. 1273 John de Bellewe assigned Kentmere to Thomas de … Inquest taken at Kirkbye Kendall, 26 September, 15 James I (1617) before James Bellingham, knight, John Lowther, esq, … 135. 1627 Inquest taken at Kirkby Kendall, 10 September, 3 Charles I (1627), before Roger Otway, esquire, escheator, by …