Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr05thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, with athletefigures, and a pompous epitaph, to the memory ofJackson, the prize-fighter, who kept the Cock * See page 88, ante. T02 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (West Brompton. Inn, at Sutton, near Epsom, from which he retiredwith a fortune, having obtained the patronage ofGeorge Prince of Wales and many leaders of thesporting world. Sir Roderick Murchison, theeminent geologist, lies buried here. Brompton Hall, the residence of the great LordBurleigh, which stood near Earls Court, is de-scribed by Faulkner as retaining at that time (1829)some marks of its ancient splendour. There was Mr. J. R. Blanche was living in BromptonCrescent about the year 1826 ; and near him, inBrompton Grove (now covered by the houses ofOvington Square), lived William Jerdan, the editorof the Literary Gazette in its palmy days. Attheir houses Mr. T. Crofton Croker, Tom Hood,the Rev. Dr. Croly, Miss Landon (the unfortunateL, E. L.), used to meet constantly, to discussthe last new play or poem, and literary subjects in
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ENTRANCE TO BROMPTON CEMETERY. till lately, adds the author, a grand porch at theentrance. The hall, or saloon, is a step lower thanthe rooms upon the same floor. The dining-roomhas a richly-carved ceiling of oak, displaying in thecentre the rose and crown, and in its other com-partments the fleur-de-lys and portcullis ; and ontaking down some ancient tapestry a few yearssince, the arms of Queen Elizabeth, carved in oak,and curiously inlaid with gold, were discoveredabove the chimney-piece. There are also in anotherroom the relics of a very curious old wainscot, injmall compartments. In St. Michaels Grove lived Douglas Jcrrold;md it was in his house that Charles Dickens firstmade his acquaintance, in or about 1835, whenstaying at home invalided. general. Jerdan died in June, 1869, at the age ofeighty-eight, nearly twenty years after resigning hiseditorial chair. His Autobiography, published infour volumes, contains many pleasant notices of hiscontemporaries. In Brompton Grove, too,

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