Sorbonne. After its founder Robert de Sorbon, a canon of Cambrai in 1252.
Souchong. A species of black tea called by the Chinese se-ou-chong, “small, good quality.”
Soudan. Properly “Suden,” from the Arabic Belad-ez-Suden, “district of the blacks.”
Southampton. The south town on the Ant or Hantone. See “[Hampshire].”
Southampton Buildings. Marks the site of Southampton House, in which lived and died the last Earl of Southhampton, Lord Treasurer of Charles II.
Southampton Street. After one of the family titles of the Duke of Bedford, the great ground landlord.
South Audley Street. See “[Audley Street].”
Southgate. See “[New Southgate].”
Southwark. A name which points to the Danish rule in England. The earliest London bridge of wood having been built in 1014, or two years before Canute seized upon the throne, this monarch took up his residence on the south bank of the Thames, and holding his Court there, styled it Sydrike, the Norse for “South Kingdom.” His successors also affected the Surrey side; as we know, Hardicanute died of a surfeit at Lambeth. By the Anglo-Saxons under Edward the Confessor the Danish Sydrike was rendered Suthwerk, or South Fortification, whence we have derived the name in its present form.
Southwick Crescent. After Southwick Park, the country seat of the Thistlewaytes, at one time joint lessees of the manor of Paddington.