LONDON STREETS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 414, 25 March 1870, Page 3

LONDON STREETS.

[From “Once a Week.”] Dryden wrote and died in Gerrard-streot; at the Turk’s Hoad, in Gerrand-street, were hold the meetings of the famous Literary Club in Johnson’s days ; Peter the Great lodged at the Czar's Head, in Great Towerstreet ; Voltaire lodged, when in England, at the sign of the White Peruke, in Maidenlane ; the Royal Society met for seventy years, and Sir Isaac Newton presided over its deliberations for a part of this time, in a house at the end of Crane court, Fleetstreet j Horace Walpole lived for many years, and died, in Berkeley-squaro ; Sheriden died at 7 Saville-row ; Lord Clive killed himself in the house of the Earl of Powis, Berkeley-square ; the Young Pretender lay concealed in a house in Boltonstreet; Newton had a residence and an observatory in St. Martin’s-street, on the south side of Leicester-square; Hogarth lived on the the east side of Leicester-sqare, and Reynolds on the west ; Francis Bailey weighed the earth in a house in Tavistockplace ; Garrick died in Adelphi-terrace; Boswell first saw Dr. Johnson in Tom Davie’s back-parlour in Great Russellstreet. Covent Garden; Flaxman lived, and wrought, and died, in Buekinghamstreet, Fitzroy-square ; Wilkie painted his “Bent Day” at S4, UpperPortland-stre'et; Richard Savage was born in a room over the end of Fox-court, Gray’s-inn-lane ; Gibbon finished his “Decline and Fall” at a house in Bentinck-street; John Hunter died in his apartments in St. George’s Hospital; Lord Eldon lived in Bedfordsquare ; Rogers lived, and wrote, and talked, in St. James’s-place ; the present Emperor of the French, then Louis Napoleon. and a refugee in England, lodged in King-street, St, James’s ; Handel lived for more than thirty years and composed his “Messiah,” in Lower Brook-street; Mulready lived for more than forty years in Lynden-grove, Bayswater ; Baxter lived in Bloomsbury-square, preached in Jermynstreet, and Was at one time incarcerated in the King’s Bench; Lord Chancellor Shaftesbury, one of the Cable, lived in Shaftesbury House, Aldersgate-street; Johnson wrote his “Dictionary” in the garret of 17, Gough-square, and died at 8, Bolt-court, Fleet-street; Canaletti once lodged in Silver-street, Golden-squa-e, and Mrs. Siddons in Great M arlborough-street; Chantrey wrought most of his finest works in Lower Belgrave-place; John Martin lived and painted in Allsopp-terrace; Byron wrete his “Lara,” and Macaulay most of his “History of England,” in the Albany ; Shelley lodged at 41, Hans-plaee, Sloan-street; Keats wrote his sonnet on Chapman’s “Homer” on the second-floor of 71, Cheapside ; Milton was bom in Breadstreet, Cheapside, and w'rote the last books of his *• Para iise Lost ” in a room overlooking St. James’s Park, in what was called Potty Franco ; Pott’s Vinegar Factory occupies the site of the Palace of the Bishops of Winchester in days gone by; the ancient emporium known as the Steelyard, was ti 1 lately marked by a site now occupied by the Caunon-street station ; the house and lecture-room of the Society of Arts stand on what was once the garden of the house in which Lady Jane Grey was married 1 1 Lord Guilford Dudley, and in which Sir Walter Raleigh afterwards lived.