DR. EDWARD YOUNG. 1681-1765. R. YOUNG had almost no association with London except in his marriage at the Church of St. Mary-atHill, in Love Lane, Eastcheap, May 27, 1731. This church, one of Wren's, was still standing in 1885. The death of his wife in 1740 led to the writing of the famous 'Night Thoughts,' which established his reputation and is so rarely read. He lived and died in his country parish in Hertfordshire. NOTES. 1 Colonel F. Grant, in a letter to the London Athenæum,' Aug. 1, 1885, writes that a directory of London printed for Sam. Lee, 1677, is in the Bodleian, and that two other copies of the same work are known to exist. 2 The Builder' (London), Sept. 19, 1885, says: 'The Royal Comedy Theatre in Panton Street should, we believe, be instanced as marking the situation of Addison's Haymarket lodging, which Pope showed to Harte as being the garret where Addison wrote "The Campaign.' 8 The Chapter Coffee House, Paternoster Row, was torn down in 1887, but rebuilt upon the same site. The Rev. Robert Gwynne, in a private note dated Sept. 1, 1885, writes: 'In revising Baedeker's “London” I had a great deal of trouble in finding out that 24, not 16, Holles Street was the birthplace of Byron. I consulted Mr. Cordy Jeaffreson, author of "The Real Lord Byron;" Mr. Crace, the decorator in Wigmore Street, whose father collected the views, maps, etc., of London, now in the British Museum; Mr. Fry, the present owner of No. 24 Holles Street, and Mr. John Murray, Jr. . . . Mr. Fry informed me that 24 Holles Street is the only house in the street that has been rebuilt. The tablet in accordance with tradition is in front of this house. Peter Cunningham, in his "London," gives as his authority for naming No. 16 as the birthplace a paper in Mr. Murray's possession. Mr. John Murray, Jr., and I examined the paper, which is a tradesman's bill, and we were both convinced that the document does not bear out Mr. Cunningham's statement.' ... 5 Long's Hotel, No. 16 New Bond Street, was taken down in 1887. 6 The Baptist,' London, June 19, 1885, says that Cowper spent one morning in town when he 'breakfasted with his friend Rose in Chancery Lane in 1792, when returning from Eartham, the residence of Hayley, a brother poet.' 7 The extreme rear of the Marshalsea Prison which Dickens describes in the Preface to 'Little Dorrit' was transformed into a warehouse in 1887. 8 The old house No. 16 Fetter Lane was demolished in 1887. 9 A writer in the British Quarterly Review,' October, 1885, says that in the company of the late Mr. W. Smith Williams, he frequently saw Leigh Hunt in his house at Hammersmith, and 'admired the taste which he managed to communicate to his small rooms, and also the graceful garrulousness and suavity of the old man in his long black robe, and his long white hair.' 10 The British Hotel, Cockspur Street, was torn down in 1887; Stanford, the publisher of maps, building upon its site. 11 The Cock Tavern, Fleet Street, was taken down in 1887, and a branch of the Bank of England was built upon its site. 12 Subsequent research shows that the Margaret Jonson who was married in 1575, according to the register of St. Martins-in-theFields, died in 1590; while the mother of Ben Jonson is known to have been alive as late as 1604. 18 Mr. Sidney Colvin, in his 'Life of Keats' (English Men of Letters Series), says that Keats lived over the Queen's Head in the Poultry in 1816, and moved to No. 76 Cheapside during the next year. No. 76 Cheapside was rebuilt in 1868. It was in this house, according to Peter Cunningham, that Keats wrote his Sonnet on Chapman's Homer.' 14 Holly Lodge, named Airlie Lodge, when it was occupied by an Earl of Airlie, has since been given its old name, and was called Holly Lodge in 1887. 15 Edward Walford, in his 'Greater London, vol. ii. p. 111, writes: 'Suffice it to say that, beyond his tomb at Twickenham, the only memorials of the poet [Pope] now visible are the gardens and the famous grove in which he took such great delight, and also the grotto, or rather the tunnel, for it has been despoiled of many of its rare marbles, spars, and ores, and is now a mere damp subway.' 16 The old house at No. 96 Piccadilly was torn down in 1887, and the Junior Travellers' Club was built upon its site. 17 Mr. Jeaffreson believes that this hotel in Dover Street was only an occasional resort of Shelley's, and that the fact of his writing there a letter announcing his child's birth is not sufficient evidence that the event occurred on the premises INDEX OF PERSONS. Abney, Sir Thomas, 317. Aikin, Lucy, quoted, 2, 288. Andersen, Hans Christian, quoted, 84. Anne, Queen, 55, 155, 156, 243, 244. Barton, Bernard, 185, 190. Beattie, Dr. W., quoted, 37. BACON, FRANCIS, 11-14; mentioned, Blessington, Lady, 88, 90, 195, 278. 202. Baillie, Agnes, 15. Baillie, Dr. Matthew, 14. BAILLIE, JOANNA, 14-15. Baker, David Erskine, 196. Ballantyne, James, 261. Blinde, Mathilde, quoted, 98. Bohn, Henry G., 79. Bolingbroke, Viscount, 242, 247. BARBAULD, Anna Letitia, 16; quo- BoswELL, JAMES, 21-22; mentioned, ted, 253, 254. Barbauld, Rev. Rochemont, 16, 256. Barber, Francis, 90, 163. x, 105, 122, 167; quoted, 120, Barclay and Perkins, 17, 18, 19, 70, Boufflers, Madame de, 159-160. 163, 174, 266, 268. Barham, H. R., quoted, 142 Barrett, Elizabeth (Mrs. Browning), Boyer, Jeremy, 56. Brawne, Fanny, 179, 181, 182. Braybrooke, Lord, 234. Brewster, Sir David, quoted, 227, 228. Brigham, Nicholas, 48. BRONTË, CHARLOTTE, 22-23; quo- Brooks, Shirley, 305; quoted, 306. Brown, Charles, 180, 181, 182. 217. Browning, Robert, 305. Buckland, Dean William, 174. Buller, Mr. Justice, 56 Campbell, Mrs. Thomas, 35, 36. Chantrey, Sir Francis, 72. Charles II., 66, 96, 207, 214, 301, 322. CHATTERTON, THOMAS, 42-45; men- CHAUCER, GEOFFREY, 45-48; men- BULWER LYTTON, 23-24; mentioned, Chawcer, Richard, 45. 194. BUNYAN, JOHN, 25-26. Burbage, Richard, 265. Burdette, Robert J., quoted, 231. Burne-Jones, Edward, 254. CHESTERFIELD, EARL OF, 49-50; mentioned, 112, 241. Church, Mrs. Ross (Florence Mar- CHURCHILL, CHARLES, 50-51; men- Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 7, 54. Burney, Dr. Charles (Elder), 72, 73, CIBBER, COLLEY, 52-55; mentioned, 158. Burney, Charles (Younger), quoted, BURNEY, FANNY (see Madame D'Ar- Burns, Robert, x. Busby, Dr. Richard, 91, 197, 246, 258. Byron, Augusta Ada, 32. Byron, Lady, 32. BYRON, LORD, 30-35; mentioned, 145, 220, 263; quoted, 257. Byron, Mrs., 30. Camden, William, 45. tioned, 32. X, 195. Cibber, Theophilus, quoted, 104, 264. Clarke, Mary Cowden, quoted, 153, COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR, 56- Collier, John Payne, 204. COLLINS, WILLIAM, 60-61. COLMAN, GEORGE (Elder), 61-62; COLMAN, GEORGE (Younger), 62-63. CAMPBELL, THOMAS, 35-37; men- CONGREVE, WILLIAM, 63-64; men- tioned, 8, 9. |