The purpose of this project is to help identify the profiles of Eliot and related families whose portions of the tree need to be fixed. There are several family trees and genealogies who have used erroneous sources based on some visitations.For a point of reference I have uploaded the article, Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, Father of Seven Great Immigrants to Massachusetts , writte...
Admiralty House, London, Middlesex, England= Admiralty House is a four-storey building of yellow brick. The rear facade is of five bays and faces Horse Guards Parade, with a basement-level exit under the corner of the Old Admiralty Building. The front of the house faces Whitehall; its main entrance is in the corner of the Ripley Courtyard, cutting through the corner of the older Ripley Building...
Charterhouse, London, England= The London Charterhouse is a historic complex of buildings in Smithfield, London dating back to the 14th century. It occupies land to the north of Charterhouse Square. The Charterhouse began as (and takes its name from) a Carthusian priory, founded in 1371 and dissolved in 1537. Substantial fragments remain from this monastic period, but the site was largely rebui...
Carlton House , London, Middlesex, England= Carlton House was a mansion in London, best known as the town residence of the Prince Regent for several decades from 1783. It faced the south side of Pall Mall, and its gardens abutted St. James's Park[1] in the St James's district of London. The location of the house, now replaced by Carlton House Terrace, was a main reason for the creation of John ...
Arundel House, London, Middlesex, England= Arundel House , was a London town-house or palace located between the Strand and the River Thames, near St Clement Danes. It was originally the town house of the Bishops of Bath and Wells, during the Middle Ages. In 1539 it was given to William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton . It reverted to the Crown on Fitzwilliam's death and was granted in 1545 to...
This project is sub-project of the Heraldic Visitations of England and Wales Project. See the main project page for more info: Heraldic Visitations of England and Wales This project catalogues all the families recorded in the following publication:Howard, J.J.; Armytage, G.J., eds. (1869). The Visitation of London in the year 1568, taken by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms, and since augme...
Buckingham Palace (Buckingham House) London, England= Buckingham Palace (UK /ˈbʌkɪŋəm/ /ˈpælɪs/[1][2]%29 is the London residence and principal workplace of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.[3] Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is often at the centre of state occasions and royal hospitality. It has been a focus for the British people at times of national rejoicing. Origina...
Mansion House, London, England======Image Right by Arpingstone at English Wikipedia Public domain Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. It is used for some of the City of London's official functions, including an annual dinner, hosted by the Lord Mayor, at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer customarily gives a speech – his "Mansion House Speech" – about the s...
Keats House, London, England= Keats House is a museum[2] in a house once occupied by the Romantic poet John Keats. It is in Keats Grove, Hampstead, north London. Maps prior to ca.1915[3] show the road with one of its earlier names, John Street; the road has also been known as Albion Grove. The building was originally a pair of semi-detached houses known as "Wentworth Place". John Keats lodged i...
The Worshipful Company of Mercers is the premier Livery Company of the City of London and ranks first in the order of precedence of the Companies. It is the first of the so-called 'Great Twelve City Livery Companies'. ==History==The records of the Mercers’ Company date back to 1348 but the Company is certainly older than this for in that year new ordinances were drawn up for the conduct of its ...
Newcastle House, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England=Newcastle House is a mansion in Lincoln's Inn Fields in central London, England. It was one of the two largest houses built in London's largest square during its development in the 17th century, the other being Lindsey House. It is the northernmost house on the western side of the square.The house had a complex history. The first version wa...
Bethnal Green Tube Disaster 1943==London, England : On 3 March 1943 a crowd of people entered Bethnal Green tube station which was used at the time as an air-raid shelter. After the searchlights went on and an anti-aircraft battery a few hundred yards away in Victoria Park launched a salvo of a new type of anti-aircraft rockets the crowd surged forward. Someone tripped on the stairs causing man...
Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, England= Montagu House (sometimes spelled "Montague") was a late 17th-century mansion in Great Russell Street in the Bloomsbury district of London, which became the first home of the British Museum.The house was actually built twice, both times for the same man, Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu. The late 17th century was Bloomsbury's most fashionable era, an...
The Albany, Piccadilly, London, Middlesex,England= The Albany, or simply Albany , is an apartment complex in Piccadilly, London.===Building===The Albany was built in 1770–74 by Sir William Chambers for Viscount Melbourne ' as Melbourne House. It is a three-storey mansion, seven bays (windows) wide, with a pair of service wings flanking a front courtyard. In 1791, Prince Frederick, Duke of York ...
Chapel House, Montpelier Row, Twickenham, London, Middlesex, England= Chapel House, now No. 15, Montpelier Row, Twickenham, is a house in Greater London, England. The house has also been called Tennyson House and Holyrood House.[1] It was occupied at one time by Alfred Lord Tennyson , and poet Walter de la Mare lived in the same row nearly a hundred years later. The house was owned for many yea...
Strawberry Hill House, London, England= Strawberry Hill House, often referred to simply as Strawberry Hill , is the Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London by Horace Walpole from 1749. It is the type example of the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style of architecture,[1] and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic revival.Walpole rebuilt the existing house in stages starting in ...
Marble Hill House, London, England= Marble Hill House is a Palladian villa built between 1724 and 1729 in Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The compact design soon became famous and furnished a standard model for the Georgian English villa and for plantation houses in the American colonies.===Description===Marble Hill House was built in 1724–1729 by Henrietta Howard, Cou...
Chiswick House, London, England= Chiswick House is a Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick. Arguably the finest remaining example of Neo-Palladian architecture in London, the house was designed by Lord Burlington, and completed in 1729. The house and gardens, which occupy 26.33 hectares (65.1 acres),[1] mainly created by architect and landscape designer William Kent, is one of the earlie...
Leighton House Museum, London, England= The Leighton House Museum is a museum in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea in London. The former home of the painter Frederic, Lord Leighton, it has been open to the public since 1929.===The house===Built for Leighton by the architect and designer George Aitchison, it is a Grade II* listed building. It is noted for its elaborate Oriental...
Charlton House, London,(formerly Kent) England=Among several English houses with the name Charlton House, the most prominent is a Jacobean building in Charlton, London. It is regarded as the best-preserved ambitious Jacobean house in Greater London. It was built in 1607-12 of red brick with stone dressing, and has an "E"-plan layout. The interior features a great hall, chapel, state dining room...
Old Chelsea, London, England= Bits of Old Chelsea (1894), etchings of houses of celebrities which featured in a book of this title by Walter Burgess with some other old Chelsea buildings added for good measure. Pictured right: Madame Venturis house, Cheyne Walk This house, number 4 Cheyne Walk was the home of the novelist George Eliot . She moved in there with her husband John Walter Cross . Yo...
St. Jame's Square, Lonond, England= St. James's Square is the only square in the exclusive St James's district of the City of Westminster. It has predominantly Georgian and Neo-Georgian architecture and a private garden in the centre. For its first two hundred or so years it was one of the three or four most fashionable residential address in London. It is now home to the headquarters of a numb...
Historic Buildings of Middlesex ===England> now mostly part of Greater London, with small sections in neighbouring counties. Image right - Tower of London as seen from the Shard ===== Image by © Hilarmont (Kempten), CC BY-SA 3.0 de, WIKI The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Middlesex, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings ...
Mayfair, London, England====Camelford House=== Camelford House The Marriott London Park Lane, at No. 140 Park Lane, opened in 1919.[22] The site was once occupied by Somerset House and Camelford House. The 11th Duke of Somerset, renamed his house "Somerset House", which Sir John Colville later called "a shade presumptuous of him, for there was another more splendid establishment bearing the nam...
Sir John Soane's House (museum), London, England= Sir John Soane's Museum was formerly the home of the neo-classical architect Sir John Soane. It holds many drawings and models of Soane's projects and the collections of paintings, drawings and antiquities that he assembled.The museum is in the Holborn area of central London, adjacent to Lincoln's Inn Fields. It is a non-departmental public body...