Survey of London, Volume 05 (of 14), the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, part 2

by William Edward Riley; George Laurence Gomme

Biographical notes.

The first occupier of the house, according to the ratebooks, was “Mr. Serjt. Glynn,” who was resident here in 1778. John Glynn was born in Cornwall in 1722. He entered the legal profession and was called to the Bar in 1748. In 1763 he was created serjeant-at-law, and the following year Recorder of Exeter. He enjoyed a great reputation for legal knowledge, which he placed, in many cases gratuitously, at the disposal of the adherents of Wilkes, in the legal proceedings connected with the latter’s agitation. In 1768, and again in 1774, he was elected as one of the representatives of Middlesex in Parliament. In 1772 he was elected Recorder of the City of London. He died in 1779.

In 1779 William Lushington was at No. 50, Bedford Square, and remained until 1781, when he was succeeded by John Hunter, whose tenancy lasted over the end of the century.