Thames Street. Runs parallel to the river on the north bank.
Thanet Place. This cul de sac at the eastern end of the Strand received its name from the Earl of Thanet, the owner of the land prior to 1780.
Thavie’s Inn. A range of modern buildings on the site of an ancient appendage to Lincoln’s Inn, so called by the Benchers in honour of John Thavie, an armourer, who when he died in 1348 left a considerable amount of property to the parish church of St Andrew.
Theobalds Road. So called because James I. was wont to pass along it on the way to his favourite hunting-seat at Theobalds in Hertfordshire. See “[Kingsgate Street].”
Thespian Art. After Thespis, the Father of the Greek Drama.
Thirteen Cantons. A tavern sign off[off] Golden Square, complimentary to the Cantons of Switzerland, at a time when Soho was as much a Swiss colony as it is now French.
Thomas Street. In honour of Thomas Guy, the founder of the Hospital, also named after him.
Thomists. Those who accepted the teaching of St Thomas Aquinas, in opposition to that of John Duns Scotus relative to the Immaculate Conception.
Threadneedle Street. A corruption of, first, “Thridneedle,” and later “Three-Needle” Street, so called from the arms of the Needlemakers’ Company.
Three Chairmen. A tavern sign in Mayfair, this house being the regular resort of gentlemen’s servants in the days when sedan-chairs were fashionable.