Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London

by Arthur St. John Adcock

INDEX

Addison, Joseph, [3], [28], [150], [339]
Addison Bridge Place, [199], [203]
Adelphi Terrace, [114], [223], [233]
Ainsworth, W. Harrison, [238], [334], [337]
Akenside, Mark, [3], [28], [150]
Albany, The, [199]
Albemarle Street, [181]
Albert Gate, Sloane Street, [334]
Albion Street, [296]
Aldermanbury, [19]
Aldersgate Street, [12], [17], [19]
Aldford Street, [178], [181]
Aldgate, [4]
Allingham, William, [259], [262], [276], [280], [281], [285], [343], [344]
Ampton Street, [275]
Arbuthnot, John, [31], [150]
Archer, Thomas, [2]
Argyll Place, [167]
—— Street, [167]
Arlington Road, [245]
Ashburton, Lady, [343], [344]
Atterbury, Francis, [31]
Austin, Alfred, [253]
Avenue Road, [245]
Ayrton, William, [207]
Bacon, Francis (Lord Verulam), [6]
Baillie, Joanna, [145], [194]
Baker Street, [328]
Balmanno, Mary, [233]
Barbauld, Mrs., [146], [220]
Barber, Francis, [102]
Barham, R. H., [238]
Barrett, Elizabeth, [331], [332]
Bartholomew Close, [19], [38], [50]
Barton, Bernard, [219], [222], [226]
Basire, James, [118], [120]
Bath House, Mayfair, [343]
Bathurst, Dr., [94]
Battersea, [26-35], [260]
Bayham Street, [314]
Beauclerk, Topham, [63], [114]
Beaumont, Francis, [20]
Bellott, Stephen, [14], [15], [16]
Bennet Street, [194]
Bentinck Street, [315], [328]
Berkeley Square, [344]
Besant, Sir Walter, [146]
Bird-in-Hand Court, Cheapside, [23]
Bishopsgate, [10]
Blackstone, Sir William, [80]
Blake, William, [9], [118-139], [271]
Blandford Square, [245]
Blessington, Lady, [338]
Bloomfield, Robert, [3]
Bloomsbury Square, [344]
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, [26-35], [106]
Bolingbroke House, [26-35]
Bolt Court, [90], [117]
Bond Street, [265]
Boner, Charles, [279]
Borrow, George, [344]
Boswell, James, [59], [71], [79], [81], [82], [85], [86], [93-117], [118], [334]
Bouverie Street, [181]
Bow Lane, [19]
—— Street, [90]

Brawne, Fanny, [154], [156], [160], [163], [164], [165]
Bread Street, Cheapside, [4], [19]
Broad Street, Soho, [9], [118], [119], [130], [167]
Brontë, Charlotte, [303]
Brooks, Shirley, [316]
Brown, Charles Armitage, [154], [164], [166]
Browne, Hablot K. (“Phiz”), [316], [323], [328]
Browne, Sir Thomas, [4]
Browning, Robert, [9], [259], [281], [331], [332], [344]
Brunswick Square, [328]
Buckingham Street, Euston Road, [135]
—— —— Strand, [200], [315]
Bunhill Row, [19]
Burbage, Richard, [13]
Burke, Edmund, [59], [88]
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, [76], [344]
Burney, Dr. Charles, [56], [106], [114]
—— Fanny, [56]
Burns, Robert, [194], [198]
Butts, Thomas, [124]
Byron, Lord, [9], [67], [68], [155], [167], [193-199], [200], [203], [286], [287], [321], [338], [340]
Cade, Jack, [10]
Camberwell, [236]
Campbell, Thomas, [200]
Campden Hill, [334]
Cannon Street, [10], [18]
Canonbury Tower, [76]
Carew, Thomas, [20]
Carlyle, Mrs., [279], [285], [286], [292], [318]
—— Thomas, [96], [198], [205], [210], [262], [263], [275-286], [291], [292], [293], [294], [296], [303], [304], [317], [321], [343], [344]
Carter Lane, [12]
Cary, Rev. H. F., [51]
Castle Street, Cavendish Square, [89]
—— —— Leicester Square, [63]
Cattermole, George, [238]
Cave, Edward, [88], [102]
Chancery Lane, [4], [328]
Charing Cross, [3], [4], [224]
Charlotte Street, [144], [332]
Charterhouse, [94], [188], [281], [296]
Chaucer, Geoffrey, [4]
Cheapside, [2], [4], [5], [17], [19], [20], [23], [24]
Chelsea, [254], [255-293]
Cheshire Cheese, the, [108]
Chesterfield, Lord, [103-105]
Chesterton, G. K., [128]
Cheyne Row, [275-286]
Cheyne Walk, [254], [255], [256-265], [273-275]
Chiswick, [36-51]
Christ’s Hospital, [200]
Churchill, Charles, [6], [44], [47], [48]
Cibber, Colley, [28], [344], [347]
Clarke, Cowden, [156], [240]
—— Mrs. Cowden, [317]
Cleveland Street, [314]
Clifford’s Inn, [220]
Cloth Fair, [10]
Cobbett, William, [200]
Colebrook Row, [219], [220], [221], [223], [224]
Coleridge, S. T., [156], [199-206], [208], [212], [213], [214], [215], [216], [223]
College Street, Kentish Town, [163]
Collins, Wilkie, [146], [318], [332]
Colman, George, [67]
Colvin, Sir Sidney, [150]
Condell, Henry, [19]
Conduit Street, Regent Street, [334]
Congreve, William, [150]
Constable, John, [143-145], [153]
Cornhill, [1], [2], [6]
Cornwall, Barry, [216], [238]

Coryat, Thomas, [19]
Covent Garden, [41], [109], [135], [200], [216], [217], [218]
Cowley, Abraham, [4]
Cranbourne Street, [38]
Craven Street, Strand, [50], [334]
Cripplegate, [6], [19]
Cross, John, [254]
Cruikshank, George, [238], [316], [334], [337]
Cumberland Market, [337]
Cunningham, Allan, [43], [59]
Darwin, Charles, [344]
Davies, Thomas, [109], [110], [113]
Day, Thomas, [187-193]
Dean Street, [41], [167], [338]
Defoe, Daniel, [6]
Dekker, Thomas, [19]
Denmark Hill, [334]
Dennis, John, [32], [220]
De Quincey, Thomas, [168-177], [206]
De Stael, Madame, [167]
De Vere Gardens, [331]
Devereux Court, [3]
Devil Tavern, [19], [108]
Devonshire Terrace, [239], [323], [332]
Dibdin, Charles, [245]
Dickens, Charles, [3], [146], [149], [153], [238], [239], [250], [286], [287], [294], [300], [311], [312], [313], [314-327], [328], [331], [332], [334], [337], [338], [343], [344]
—— Mrs., [303], [322]
Dilke, Wentworth, [154], [156]
Disraeli, Benjamin (Lord Beaconsfield), [167], [338], [344]
—— Isaac, [344]
Dobson, Austin, [294]
Dodsley, Robert, [96]
Donne, Dr. John, [4], [19]
Doughty Street, [316], [317], [318], [322], [323]
Dowden, Dr., [181]
Down Street, [280]
Dryden, John, [167]
Duke Street, [333]
Du Maurier, George, [146]
Dyer, George, [220], [232]
East Smithfield, [4]
Edmonton, [8], [225], [226-232]
Edwardes Square, [293]
Eliot, George, [245-254], [255]
Elm Tree Road, [233], [236], [238], [239], [240]
Ely Place, [10]
Emerson, R. W., [280], [281]
Enfield, [223], [225], [226]
Exeter Street, [89]
Felpham, [127], [136]
Fetter Lane, [90]
Fielding, Henry, [43], [71], [72]
Fields, Ticknor, [303]
Finchley Road, [237], [242]
Fitzgerald, Edward, [142], [153], [303], [305]
—— Percy, [89]
Fitzosbert, William, [1]
Fitzroy Square, [273]
—— Street, [314]
Flaxman, John, [120-139], [140], [167]
Fleet Street, [4], [8], [89], [108], [109], [181]
Fleming, Mrs., [76], [79]
Fletcher, John, [4], [18], [20]
Forster, John, [87], [149], [238], [294], [295], [318], [321], [322], [323], [331]
Fountain Court, [131], [134]
Franklin, Benjamin, [49], [334]
Friday Street, [18], [20]
Frith Street, [167], [181], [185]
Froude, J. A., [279]
Fulham Road, [266], [333]
Fuller, Thomas, [20]
Furnival’s Inn, [315], [316]
Gad’s Hill Place, [315], [324]
Gainsborough, Thomas, [64], [67], [130], [153], [337]

Gamble, Ellis, [38], [39]
Garrick, David, [43], [48], [50], [59], [96], [103], [110], [114], [153]
—— Mrs., [114]
Garth, Sir Samuel, [31]
Gay, John, [31], [150]
Gerrard Street, [42], [59], [167]
Gibbon, Edward, [328]
Gilchrist, Alexander, [123], [124], [131]
Gilman, Mr., [156], [223]
Globe Theatre, [12], [13], [18], [19]
Gloucester Place, [331]
Godwin, Mary, [181]
—— William, [216]
Goldsmith, Oliver, [59], [63], [68], [71], [76], [79], [80], [81], [82], [85], [86], [87], [88], [153]
Gore House, Kensington, [338]
Gough Square, [90], [95-109]
Gower, John, [18]
Gower Street, [344]
Gray, Thomas, [6]
Gray’s Inn, [90]
Great Coram Street,

[296]
—— George Street, [333]
—— Newport Street, [56]
—— Portland Street, [117]
—— Queen Street, [117], [118]
Greaves, Walter, [260], [262], [273]
Greek Street, [168-177]
Green Street, [120]
Greene, Robert, [13]
Grosvenor Square, [328]
Half Moon Street, [334]
Hall, S. C., [185]
Hallam, Arthur, [332]
—— Henry, [332]
Hamilton, Lady, [142]
—— Sir William, [275]
Hammersmith, [200], [271], [294]
Hampstead, [140-166]
Hampstead Road, [314], [334]
Hannay, James, [300]
Harley Street, [271]
Harmsworth, Cecil, [90]
Harry, M. Gerard, [266]
Hawkesworth, Dr. John, [94], [102], [103]
Hawkins, Sir John, [63], [93], [94], [108]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [294]
Haydon, Benjamin, [135], [156], [158], [181], [210]
Hayley, William, [124], [134], [140], [142]
Hazlitt, Mrs., [220]
—— William, [39], [156], [167], [181-186], [200], [203], [204], [205], [207], [216]
Heminge, John, [19]
Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, [123-124]
Hereford Square, [344]
Herrick, Robert, [5]
Hertford Street, [328]
Highgate, [156], [157], [199], [223], [259], [337]
Hind, Lewis, [271]
Hobbes, Thomas, [3]
Hogarth, Mary, [322]
—— Mrs., [50-51]
—— William, [36-51], [56], [63], [68], [79], [150]
Hogg, T. J., [177]
Holborn, [90], [226]
Holcroft, Thomas, [216]
Holland House, [339]
Holles Street, [9], [193]
Hone, William, [158], [223]
Hood, Thomas, [9], [223], [233], [235-245]
Hook, Theodore, [332], [338]
Hungerford Market, [314]
Hunt, Holman, [9]
—— Leigh, [68], [153], [155], [156], [158], [210], [285], [286-295], [318], [344]
Hunter Street, [334]
Irving, Washington, [38]
Islington, [76], [79], [219-221]
Isola, Emma, [227], [228], [231]
Ivy Lane, [94], [108]

Jeffrey, Francis, [275]
Jerrold, Douglas, [239], [294], [331]
Johnson, Mrs., [97], [98], [101]
—— Samuel, [3], [33], [43], [50], [52], [59], [60], [63], [68], [71], [72], [79], [81], [82], [86], [88], [89-117], [275]
Johnson Street, [314]
Johnson’s Court, [90]
Jonson, Ben, [4], [19], [20]
Keats, John, [6], [23], [153-166]
Kemble, John, [167]
Kemp, William, [13]
Kensal Green, [334]
Kensington, [293], [296], [299], [303-306], [311], [328], [338], [339]
—— Gardens, [300]
Kilburn Priory, [331]
King Street, Covent Garden, [200]
Kingsley, Charles, [255]
—— Henry, [255]
Kit-Kat Club, [150]
Knight, Joseph, [256]
Ladbroke Grove Road, [328]
Lamb, Charles, [6], [9], [39], [40], [51], [80], [86], [130], [156], [186], [200], [206], [207-232], [233], [234], [235], [236], [240], [241], [287]
—— Mary, [209], [213], [215], [216], [220], [222], [223], [224], [225], [226], [231], [233], [234]
Landor, Walter Savage, [208], [338]
Landseer, Sir Edwin, [238]
Langland, John, [1]
Langton, Bennet, [63], [72], [103]
Lant Street, [314]
Leathersellers’ Buildings, [3]
Lecky, Mrs., [281]
Leech, John, [328]
Leicester Square, [38], [39], [49], [52], [59], [60], [63], [81], [86], [88], [117], [120]
Lennox, Mrs., [108]
Levett, Robert, [102], [103]
Lewes, George Henry, [249], [253], [316]
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, [149], [322]
Little College Street, [314]
—— Queen Street, [212]
Lloyd, Charles, [215]
Locke, John, [207]
Lombard Street, [6]
London Bridge, [24]
—— Stone, [10]
Loudon Road, [245]
Ludgate Hill, [328]
Lytton, Lord, [242], [250], [328], [338]
Macaulay, Lord, [334], [340]
Maclise, Daniel, [149], [239], [255], [331], [338]
Macready, W. C., [331]
Maiden Lane, [271]
Manning, Thomas, [211]
Marchmont Street, [181]
Marryat, Captain, [238], [333], [338]
Marston, Philip Bourke, [9]
Marylebone Road, [288], [323], [332]
Massinger, Philip, [18]
Mathews, Charles, [197]
Matthew, Mrs., [120], [134]
Mawson Row, Chiswick, [36]
Mecklenburgh Square, [316]
Medwin, [177]
Meredith, George, [255]
Mermaid Tavern, [18], [19], [20]
Middleton, Thomas, [4]
Milbanke, Anna Isabella, [194], [197], [199], [340]
Mill, John Stuart, [9], [275]
Milnes, Moncton (Lord Houghton), [238]
Milton, John, [4], [19]
Monkwell Street, [14], [15], [16], [19]
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, [28]
Moore, Thomas, [67], [194]
Moorfields, [6], [153]
More, Hannah, [114]
Morland, George, [337], [338]
Morris, William, [37], [344]
Mount Street, [178]

Mountjoy, Christopher, [14], [15], [16], [17]
Moxon, Edward, [227], [228], [231]
Mulready, William, [167]
Munday, Anthony, [19]
Munro, Alexander, [281]
Murray, David Christie, [334]
—— John, [198]
New Street, [135]
Newgate Street, [200]
Newman Street, Oxford Street, [63]
Newton, Sir Isaac, [52-56], [207]
Nollekens, Joseph, [39], [140]
Norfolk Street, Strand, [200]
North Bank, [245]
—— End, Fulham, [71], [72], [73]
Northcote, James, [167]
Old Bond Street, [197], [334]
Old Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn, [328]
Onslow Square, [306]
Opie, Mrs., [198]
Oxford Street, [168], [169], [174]
Palace Green, Kensington, [311]
Pall Mall, [64], [200], [205]
Parson’s Green, [71]
Patmore, P. G., [185], [211]
Peckham Rye, [118]
Peel, Sir Robert, [242], [325]
Pennell, Mr. and Mrs. J., [260], [261], [265], [266], [267], [268]
Percy, Bishop, [117]
—— Street, Tottenham Court Road, [344], [347]
Philip, Mrs. and Miss Birnie, [267], [268]
Phillips, Sir Richard, [51]
Piccadilly, [199], [334]
Poland Street, [123], [167], [177], [178]
Pope, Alexander, [6], [26-35], [36], [106], [150], [155], [347]
Pope’s Head Alley, [2]
Poultry, the, [9]
Praed, W. Mackworth, [88]
Prior, Matthew, [3]
Putney, [255], [295], [328], [331]
Queen Anne Street, [271], [272], [273], [274]
Quiney, Richard, [12]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, [20]
Ralph, James, [36]
Reade, Charles, [334]
Red Lion Square, [344]
Reynolds, John Hamilton, [156], [223]
—— Sir Joshua, [33], [56], [59], [60], [63], [64], [67], [81], [86], [88], [103], [110], [114], [117], [130], [141], [153], [271]
Richardson, Samuel, [42], [68], [71-75], [97]
Ritchie, Lady Thackeray, [299], [300], [305], [306]
Robert Street, Adelphi, [223], [233]
Roberts, David, [272], [273]
Robinson, Crabb, [130], [233]
Rogers, Samuel, [67], [145], [194], [200], [203], [205], [339-343]
Romney, George, [135], [140-143], [337]
Rossetti, Christina, [9]
—— Dante Gabriel, [9], [255], [259], [260], [261]
—— W. M., [255]
Rowan Road, [294]
Rowley, William, [19]
Ruskin, John, [9], [265], [281], [334]
Russell Square, [303]
Russell Street, Covent Garden, [109], [216], [217], [218], [219]
St. Andrew Undershaft, [10]
St. Anne’s, Soho, [186]
St. Bartholomew the Great, [10]
St. Clement Danes, [89], [108]
St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, [10]
St. James’s Place, [339]
—— Street, [199]

St. John’s Wood, [233], [236-245], [253], [254], [288], [331]
St. Martin’s Street, [52]
St. Olave, Silver Street, [15], [16]
St. Saviour’s, Southwark, [10], [19]
Sala, George Augustus, [316], [323], [325], [326], [344], [347]
Salisbury Court, [42]
Savile Row, [68]
Scott, Sir Walter, [145], [197]
Seamore Place, [338]
Selden, John, [20]
Shakespeare, Edmund, [18]
—— William, [6], [10-24], [106], [328]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [156], [167], [177-181], [206], [287], [288], [294]
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [67], [68], [194], [340], [343]
Shirley, James, [4]
Silver Street, [14], [16], [17]
Smith, Albert, [344], [347]
Smith, J. T. (“Rainy Day”), [120], [140]
Smith, Sidney, [316], [338]
Smollett, Tobias, [255]
Soho, [41], [42], [56], [59], [118-123], [130], [167-186], [338]
Soho Square,

[167], [168]
Southampton Street, Camberwell, [331]
South Moulton Street, [127], [129], [131]
Southey, Robert, [223]
Southwark, [10], [11]
Spencer, Herbert, [245]
Spenser, Edmund, [4]
Stanfield, Clarkson, [146], [149], [238], [272]
Staple Inn, [10], [90], [109]
Steele, Richard, [3], [150], [344]
Sterne, Laurence, [334]
Stevenson, Robert Louis, [150], [241]
Stothard, Thomas, [134], [271]
Strand, [6], [7], [8], [90], [105], [131], [315]
Stubbs, Bishop, [3]
Sullivan, Sir Arthur, [9]
Swift, Jonathan, [27], [31], [150]
Swinburne, A. C., [9], [255], [327]
Talfourd, T. N., [210], [216]
Tavistock Square, [324]
Taylor, John, [160]
Temple Bar, [19]
Temple, Rev. T. W., [117]
Temple, the, [6], [7], [10], [72], [80], [87], [177], [207], [216], [218], [296], [304]
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, [142], [150], [328], [332]
Terrace, the, Kensington, [328]
Thackeray, W. M., [88], [153], [208], [242], [296-313], [314], [315], [326], [328], [338]
Thames Street, [4], [18]
Thomson, James, [27]
Thornhill, Sir James, [41], [42], [52], [167]
Thrale, Mrs., [63]
Thurloe, John, [328]
Tite Street, [265], [266]
Tower, the, [10]
Trollope, Anthony, [312], [313], [326], [334]
Turk’s Head, [42]
Turner, J. M. W., [9], [260], [268-275]
Turpin, Dick, [153]
Twickenham, [31], [32], [35], [271]
Upper Cheyne Row, [286], [288], [291-293]
Vale, the, Chelsea, [266]
Vine Street, Westminster, [6]
Wallace, Charles William, [12], [14], [15]
Walpole, Horace, [255], [344]
Wanstead, [236]
Warburton, William, [33]
Wardour Street, [135]
Warton, Joseph, [28], [94]
Warwick Crescent, [331]

Watts, G. F., [262]
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, [23], [255]
Webster, John, [4]
Welbeck Street, [334]
Wellclose Square, [187]
Wellington Street, Strand, [315], [324]
West, Benjamin, [43], [63]
Westbrook, Harriett, [178], [181]
Westminster, [6], [333]
—— Abbey, [10], [134]
Whistler, James McNeill, [39], [256], [259-268], [271]
Whitefriars Street, [2]
Wilderness Row, Clerkenwell, [296]
Wilkes, John, [44]
Wilkins, George, [15], [19]
Williams, Anna, [101], [102], [106]
Will’s Coffee House, [216]
Wimbledon Park Road, [245-253]
Wimpole Street, [265], [331], [332]
Winchmore Hill, [236]
Wine Office Court, [76], [108]
Wood Street, Cheapside, [17], [19]
Woodstock Street, [89]
Wordsworth, William, [7], [8], [145], [205], [208], [216], [220], [222], [225], [226]
Yates, Edmund, [309], [310], [311], [312], [316], [331]
Young Street, Kensington, [296], [299], [303], [304], [305], [306]

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