Biographical notes.
Dr. John Purcell, a prominent London physician, who published A Treatise on Vapours or Hysteric Fits and A Treatise of the Cholick was living at No. 10 in 1730. He died in the same year.
The “Rev. Mr. Majendie,” afterwards “Rev. Dr. Majendie,” is shown by the ratebooks as occupying No. 10 from 1758 to 1771. He was probably John James Majendie, son of the Bishop of Chester and Bangor. He was the author of several religious works in English and French, and in 1774 became Canon of Windsor. He died in 1783.