[31] Soyer had superintended gratuitously various soup-kitchens for the poor of London, and established model kitchens at Scutari and in the Crimea during the war of 1855. G. A. Sala says of him: ‘He was a vain man, but he was good and kind and charitable.’
[33] The house (pulled down in 1857) was about 150 yards to the east of the Albert Hall. The Imperial Institute and Imperial Institute Road are now on the site of the Horticultural Gardens.
[37a] In 1828 Pickering Place and Terrace, close by, were built.
[37b] Early in the thirties, before 1834.
[38] Now 47, Hereford Road, Bayswater.
[39] Modern Sabbath, 1797, p. 49.
[40a] In 1824 a duel was interrupted by the police.
[40b] August, 1822, p. 138 f.
[40c] The Acrotormentarian Society.
[42] The site is near the filter-beds of the New River Company.