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Transcribed from the 1856 J. Russell Smith edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Royal Kensington Libraries for allowing their copy to be used for this transcription.

THE
MEMORIALS OF THE HAMLET
OF
KNIGHTSBRIDGE.

With Notices of its Immediate Neighbourhood.

BY THE LATE

HENRY GEORGE DAVIS.

EDITED BY

CHARLES DAVIS.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY J. RUSSELL SMITH, SOHO-SQUARE;

AND TO BE HAD OF MR. DAVIS, ST. PAULS SCHOOLS, KNIGHTSBRIDGE.

1859.

LONDON:
TAYLOR AND GREENING, PRINTERS, GRAYSTOKE-PLACE,
FETTER-LANE, HOLBORN.

PREFACE.

In presenting the Memorials of Knightsbridge to the public, apology must be made for the delay in its appearance since the announcement of its intended publication. This was occasioned by the sudden and protracted illness of its Editor: since his restoration, he has prosecuted the work with all the diligence which his time permitted.

The book is published in the hope that its critics may treat its Author kindly, since the brain that indited it is, alas! no more. It is the result of great assiduity and perseverance amidst peculiar difficulties, and was only completed just before the death of the compiler, who, towards its close, had laboured at it with greater energy than his weakened frame ought properly to have borne.

The immediate motive for publication was the Editors regard, it might almost be termed veneration, for its writer, seconded by favourable opinions expressed by several literary gentlemen who perused the manuscript, and knowledge that many notices by the same hand had already appeared in Notes and Queries, The West Middlesex Advertiser, and the various local papers that have occasionally been published in the neighbourhood.

The work was written from notes made at various times, some having been taken when its author was yet a boy. It may therefore be described as the labour of his short and painful life; and it was felt that so long as the result of his application was laid aside, so long did the Editors duty to his brother remain unperformed.

As some little notice of our historian may be desirable, the following sketch is subjoined:

Henry George Davis was born at 4, Mills Buildings, on August 14th, 1830. While an infant he had severe inflammation of the lungs, which afterwards became confirmed pleurisy. He was educated at the Philological School in the New Road. Of this Institution he was to the last fond and proud. Having carried off many of its prizes, he always felt an identity with it. He was of a studious inclinationa disposition doubtless fostered by his infirmities; for he was never able to join in the sports of his fellows. As he arrived at manhood, his disease (increased in 1850 by rheumatic fever) became much more severe, and finally released his soul to its Almighty source on the 30th of December, 1857.

The Editor has to acknowledge obligations to O. B. Cole, Esq.; to the author of Paddington, Past and Present; to the Rev. M. Walcot, of The Memorials of Westminster; Mr. Cunningham, of The Handbook of London; Mr. Faulkners works; and to those sundry publications the name of which is given with each quotation. He hopes his readers may have that enjoyment in the perusal of the following History which was had in the providing of it for them.

St. Pauls Schools, Knightsbridge, June, 1859.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
Chap . I.	Introduction
Chap . II.	Historical Associations
Chap . III.	Modern Parochial Divisions: The Streets, Public Buildings, &c. Their Associations, Eminent Inhabitants, &c.
Chap . IV.	Belgravia
Chap . V.	The Sub-District of St. Barnabas
Chap . VI.	Social and Political Summary

PERSONS.

PAGE

Allen, John

Bennett, Rev. W. J. E.

Bensley, Richard

Birkhead Family

Blessington, Lady

Bellamy, G. A.

Bernal, Ralph

Bowles, Carrington

Broughton, Dr.

Buckingham, Anecdote of Duke of

Burton, Judge

Carlisle, Frederick Earl of

Caulfield, General

Chardin, Sir John

Cheselden, Mr.

Chudleigh, Miss

Clarendon, Hyde, Earl of

Clarke, Mrs.

Corbaux, Miss

Cornellys, Mrs.

Cromwell, Family of

Danvers, Family of

Derwentwater, Countess of

De Dunstanville, Lord

DOliveyra, Francis Xavier

DOrsay, Count

Duncan, Sir H.

Egremont, Lord

Every, John

Eyre, Major Robert

Foote, Anecdote of

Gamble, Rev. J.

Gardiner, Sir R.

Gascoigne, Mrs.

George IV., Anecdote of

Grant, General Sir W. K.

Guthrie, Mr.

Harness, Rev. W.

Harrison, Thomas

Hawke, Honourable Miss

Higgins, Mr. M. J.

Howard of Escrick, Lord

Howard, Major

Humphry, Ozias

Humphrey, Sir William

Hunter, John

Inchbald, Mrs., Anecdote of

Jones, Gentleman

Lanesborough, Lord

Laremar, William

Lenthall, Sir John

Lens, Bernard

Lewis, Sir G. C.

Lewis, Lady Theresa

Lewis, William Thomas

Liddell, Hon. and Rev. R.

Liston, John

Liston, Mrs.

Louis Napoleon

Madan, Rev. M.

Maitland, Sir P.

Marsh, Charles

Marshall, J.

Miller, Robert

Milner, Isaac

Molesworth, Sir W.

Morgan, Lady

Morgann, Maurice

Morland, Sir Samuel

Morison, Dr.

Munster, Earl of

Murphy, Arthur

Nell Gwynne

Orrery, Countess of

Ossory, Lady

Penn, William

Pennington, Rev. Thos.

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