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The Old Court Suburb; Or Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical, and Anecdotal
The Old Court Suburb Or Memorials of Kensington Regal Critical and Anecdotal Author:Leigh Hunt Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Original Publisher: Hurst and Blackett Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustr... more »ations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER HI. Little Holland House -- Mbs. Inchbald -- Hon. Miss Fox -- Bentham And Sidney Smith -- Add1son Road -- General And Lady Mary Pox -- " Homer Villas," And " Cato Cottages" -- Addison Tebrace -- Lee's Nursery -- Kensington Gravel Pits -- Swift -- The Callcotts -- Sheffield, Duke Of Buckinghamshire -- Campden Grove -- Newton House, And Sir Isaac Newton -- Campden House -- Strange History Of The Little Duke Of Gloucester, Son Of Princess, (afterwards Queen) Anne -- "duke Upon Duke," Or Lechmere And Guise -- Romantic Tower. Near Holland House, in a portion, still accessible, of the late thoroughfare leadingto it, called, Nightingale Lane, stands Little Holland House; a small mansion compared with the other, but still a mansion ; isolated, countryfied, and standing in a garden. Here Mrs. Inchbald once spent a couple of weeks with its occupant, a Mr. Bubb, and dined frequently with him on Sundays (who was he ?); and here lived and died Miss Fox, the sister of the late Lord Holland, a lady deserving to be remembered; for everybody seems to have loved her. In her girlhood, she and a young friend, Miss V., a distant connection of the family, were much in the house of another family connexion, the first Lord Lansdowne, at that time Lord Shelburne the minister, where she became intimate with his Lordship's protege, Jeremy Bentham, who at that time was still young himself. The future venerable jurist possessed a grea...« less