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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
LONDON'S WEST END HOLDS ROMANCE OF ENGLAND'S HISTORY.
INTERESTING MEMORIES OF BERKELEY
ROYAL HOME
A Princess' birthplace, No. 17 Bruton Street, where HRH the Duchess of York lived before her marriage, and where her daughter HJH. Princess Elizabeth was horn four years ago. Inset: The golden- haired Princess, "third lady of the land,"
THERE
pavo
HERE is an indefinable atmos- phere about London's Mayfair, with its old-world streets, its homes that have seen the glories of patches and powder and candle- light, and whose resident. Sedan chairs awaited them at the steps Df their homes as regularly as do
at the their automobiles
The varying ment-edge today. styles of architecture, the time. honoured names of the thorough- fares and the torch-extinguishers, stil! to he found here and there outside the doorways, all cell the passerby that this is England; this is London; this is history. romance and the great unspoken story of a great people.
Hallowed by history, tradition and the writings of such immor- tala na Samuel Pepys and Sir Walter Sentt, Berkeley Square, in the
heart of fashionable very Mayfair, is a household word wherever the English language ia spoken. No less so is Bruton Street, which deixouches into it. and memories of Walpole, Benu Brummell and Sheridan, to any nothing of a myriad names of the British nobility and aristocracy, dating to the days of the Regency intimately and before, are
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associated with these scenes are the quaint old houses, which must now give way before the advance of modern requirements, in the forefront of which is the Canadian Pacifle Railway's great new hotel.
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Immediately adjoining the great
hotels, shopping districts. parka and palaces of the West End, Berkeley Square remalna one of the choicent residential qu ters of the world's greatest metropolis. Here
the peoplea of
the earth meet
in the homes of Richard Sheridan
the British
nation. Here stands, and has
Alond
for
years.
the heart
of the British Empire and magnet of the world.
Royal Associations.
Even Rogally is alienably linked with this storied quarter of London town, for No. 17 Bruton Street was the home of HRH. the Duchess of York, prior to her marrlage, and was also the birth- place of her daughter, H.R.1. Princess Elizabeth "the third lady of the land," four years Byʊ.
Thus one of the houses which now stand on the site of the new hostelry will ever be remembered when The 04 of England's "andling Princess" ar her golden- is men- haired eldest daughter This offers It Uloned.
striking example of present-day recollee- tions centred on the stately homes at the corner of Berkeley Square and Bruton Street, and a brief survey, through the years, of the various buildings which aru involved in the new development,
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SQUARE-ROYALTY-POLITICS—SOCIETY—STAGE.
BERKELEY SQUARE AND BRUTON STREET TODAY
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BAUTON STREET
These beautiful old kunnes hoid a wealth of the history of England, written and unwritten, Their walle have seen the events of three re- turies, grave and pay, a brief survey of which is given in the necomputny- These who know their ing article. Magfeir will yet find something new; Those who do not, have a seraith of information in store for them.
Cromwellian Recollections.
No. 15 Berkeley Square, origin-
offers some interesting sidelights | ally two hotars, but made into one On England's histork, political, artistic and social affaira,
Berkeley Square takes its natue from Berkeley House, Inter Devon- shire House and now a modern apartment bluck, which was well known to pre-war and immediate post-war travellers for its hand-
ink!
forecourt and gates on Plecadilly, almost opposite the Ritz Hotel, facing the Green Park. This superb home was built by John, Lord Berkeley, on his return from Ireland in 1672, at a cost of
it
ed
Beau Brummell
so long ago that nobody
remem-
bors when. be- in Its longed enrly days to Sir Robert Cotto believed to ha descencint tf his
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NO. 17 BRUTON STREET
ROYAL BIRTHPLACE.
This tutely mansion won the home of HRH the Duchenn of York, "England's smiling Prinecas," prior to her marriage, and no came into special prominence. The interest of The British public reached its zenith. however, whên the Duchess' first child, the popular Princese Elizabeth, chone golden-haired beauty and charming ways have endeared her to England's heart, was born at No. 17 Bruton Street, fear years ago.
Next door but une le "Midlothian Honer," immortalized in- the works of Sir. Walter Scott, while mump other interesting characters have left their mark on this section of fashionable Mayfair, the very hub of London's Fashionable West End, through three centurica, The advent of the Canadian Pacific's nem palatial hotel will be well in keeping with the beat traditions of the historic site and will furnish London with an impors tant contribution to ita facilitien for entertaining the travelling public.
HOTEL
The above map gives a comprehensive idea of the location of Berkeley Square, in the very heart of London's fashionable quieter. Such landmarks ar Piccadily. Band Street and Hanover Square are readily recognizabi". The shaded area is the site of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Are
which
London's Houses, classic cheap lodging for male vagranta.
-
Horace Walpole
The house also had a number of other prominent nameske occupants,. who was so pro- cluding Sir John minent in Crom- Nelthorpe, Sir wellian days and William Ord and founder of the Sir James Ander- Cottonian Llun president of the Calleke rary, now hous- probably a sixth of what sont have cust to-day. Prior
British
of Museum. in the
Physicians (1867) and phy- to that time the Berkeley family t was inter bought by Vis.
sician extraor had occupied Hay Hill Farm.
count Templetown, and after a
dinary to Queen where Hay Hill stands to-day comparatively uninteresting history,
Victoria (1874). adjoining and in rear of the pro came into prominence of more re-
Nos. 17 and 18 jected C.P.I. hotel. On becoming cent years as the home of the late himself 11
Kame were the ennobled, the family herume the Frederick Lehmann,
house until 1785. Berkeleys of Bruton and later of painter, and father of Miss Listi
No. 18, with its imposing pillars Stratton, both usines remaining in Lehmann, the composer, and of
former com Rudolph the family, the
("Rudy"), well-known and portico and balcony, usually memorated
Bruton Streel, cricketer, puut, Liberal politicionadorned with flowers, was one of already mentioned,
and member of the staff of "Punch." the most beautiful residences of the square and in the early 18th Next door, No. 16 has the re-
more century was owned by that famous patation of having suffered
old re-dog, Sir Chaloner Ogle, changes of tenancy than any other Admiral of the Fleet, who was for
the square. It passed house in
Jamaica.
the After him cause through the hands of the fifth and some years commander-in-chief in last) Lord Stratton the, the Berke
Earl of Kinnoull, Admiral Sir John oy family, original owners of the West and Lord Alfred Paget, who
late) to a long line of occupants,
was Chief Equerry and Clerk Mar- including Sir Richard Barrow the shal to Queen Victoria. Dowager Lady Cawdler (1830); Dr. Alexander Turnbull and Mr. Robert Crawshay. The last occupant of note was Lady Randolph Churchill (nee Sadie Jerome) mother of Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Conser yntive statesman of the present day. Churchill in connexion with the Fourth Party, which he helped to found, in Gladstone's Home Rule days, are a matter of history and need no more than bare mention' here.
The name of Horace Walpole echoes around No. 1 Berkeley Square, which was his home for number of years, as does that of Brittnmell through Bruton Street, where his adventures. nothing of his haunting by bailiffs and "duna of all kinds have long since become an important part
of
Lo
the history of the world's greatest dandy.
the
Reviewing the Canadian Pacific's purchases proper, starts Ing
Berkeley Square frontage, No. 14 stands out as the most symmetrical house in the square, with a remarkably fine
doar entrance
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hallway. Nearly 150 years ago, this house Dowager owned by the Duchess of Manchester, who lived For the fol- in it for 40 years. lowing 40 years it was occupied by John Marlin, M., for Tewkes
1900 onwards, No.
Was
bury.
14 wasrom by the late Hon.
Lewis Harcourt, familiarly known as "Lule" and afterwards raised to the peerage, He was the only right-hand 8011 of Gludstone's man Sir William Harcourt, and was himself a famous parlamen- tarian.
The artivities of Lord Randolph
A Great Actor.
the On their retirement from Haymarket Theatre in 1883, Sir Squire Bancroft and his vivacious wife tank the house. On her death, however, he went to live in the of the Albany and was long one favourites in clubland. This great actor and his neighbour, Lord Howton, may be taken as typical figures of the old regime, mourned by Thackeray in his writings anent the footmann. "Jeames, of Buckley Square,' Kipling too, has immor- talized the historic rectangle in Tomlinson", whose "naked soul" went up to judgment after he "lay down and died, in his house in Berkeley Square."
A Beaconsfield Memory. Lord Rowion, otherwise "Monty" Corry, stands out in the recollections of No. 17 Berkeley Square. For many years the faithful friend and secretary of One of the smartest houses in the Disract! and later his executor, † square, is No. 19, at the corner of Lord Rowton's name is forever Bruton Street and with its entrance
the Rowton commemorated in
thoroughfare. It has al-
The
in that
new hetri.
a
ways been a matter of dispute whe ther this house belongs to the street or to the square, with general favour of the latter, as he ing more fashionable. In the time of the Regency it belonged to Mr. Andrew Barnard, and from 1850 to 1880 was owned by Sir William White Cooper, who was surgeon
to oculist Queen Victoria. He died in 1880 at the age of 70. Dr. Rob- ert Cross, another eminent medico, succeeded him, and from 1900 on- wards, the house was occupied by Mr. John Jameson, the well-known distiller.
in Bruton street, there is a direct link with Sir Walter Scot in No. 15, the furthest of the newly-ac quired properties. This was the house of the Great (and second) Duke of Argyll, who was instru- mental in suppressing the Jacobite rebellion in 1715, and having made himself mortally unpopular with to live in his countrymen came London and died in this house in 1745. Here it was that Scott act the scene of the pleadings of the intrepid Jennie Deans, for her hap less sister, Elle. In his immortal "Heart of Midlothian", and it is by the pen of the romancer and cer- tain of Pope's verses that Argyll's memory endures to-day.
Six years after the Duke's death, Horace Walpole stayed in the house, Later, the house passed, successive- ly, into the hands of John Wool- more, Captain Hampden Turner and the Dowager Marchioness of Lath- jun. Sir Arthur Hobhouse, who succeeded her was A kinsman of John Cam Hobhouse, and later was ennobled as Lord Broughton. He lived at No. 42 and is remembered by his strenuous championship of his dead friend Byron, against the attacks of the latter's wife, and also by his own lively memoirs. He is credited with having coined, during his own parliamentary experience the now commonly-used, phrase "His Majesty's Opposition."
**The Grouchers" Home.
No. 16 Bruton Street was many years one of the most stately
for
SCOTT MEMORY
"Midlothian House," otherwise No. 16 Bruton Street, where Scott set the arene of the pleading of Jeanie Deans for her sister Effie, in his "Heart of Midlothian." It was for some years the home of the second Duke of
town mansions in the West End of Behind a frontage of over London, 60 feet, it contained A wonderful series of imposing rooms. In the styles of the last three centuries, including a superb library in Louls XV style. It was for many years wned by the Earls of Granville, various though they leased it at times to Lord Cottenham, the Lord Chancellor and Charles Fulke Gran- ville, author of the famous ten- volume Diary, and commonly known associated with the Square, includ- na "the groucher", on account of his ing those of Lord Rosebery, the Latterly, the Earl of Powla and Lord Northcliffe. saturnine temper. house was owned by the Earls of The second Earl of Chatham, bro- ther of "the bottomless Pitt"; Lord Carnarvon, and later still by Mr. Henry Oppenheimer, the diamond- Brougham; Charles James Fox, and Lord Clermont were also residents merchant.
of the neighborhood.
Next door is the Duchess of York's former home, No. 17, having heen the proper ty of the Earls of Strathnairn of
Argull., Inset: Sir Walter Scott.
Thus it will be seen that Berke ley Square is indeed one of the most historie uites in England, bo it in the glowing 18th century at Castle the height of its fame or during for some yenre. ita latter, but no less interesting Here, too, Prin- days. Cc98 Elizabeth
Glamis
was
the
Airat
Mayfair remains Mayfair, syno saw of light day. nym for beauty and fashion, be it About 100 years of the wig and sword period; the the "gay ngo, it
the befobbed dandy, days, property of the nineties" or our own times. Mn- Downger Duch- dame is within a stone's throw of 288 of Rendicher shops and theatres; monsieur kham, and later equally handy to clubland, and to Viscount Edrington and Lord both are ideally situated for sight. recing and rendy access to tha Strathden and Campbell.
shipping and transportation offices of the metropolis.
Bir qutro Danerort
No.
The last three houses on Bruton Street require little mention. 18 was in the Berena family for several years and later owned by Mr. Vincent Vickers. No. 19 be- longed to Lady Percevill, to Mrs. C. Richardson and the Hon. John W. Grey,
.
The arrival of the great new pro. ject, an hotel of some 600 rooms, all with baths, and modern public space fully efficient for the ro quirements of the Candian Paci- fic's exacting standards, is typical No. 20, nearest the corner was of the march of the times. With
wide tenanted as Intely as 1840 by the and management, the Canadian Pa experience in hotel-building redoubtable publicist, William Cob cific Rallway will present London bett. Born a former's son, he
with something memorable in its crossed the Atlantic twice
as a hotel history." soldler, and by his busy pen his eloquence in Parliament prob-
Berkeley Squaro's story, as brief- ably did more than any other Eng-ly outlined here, is one of the most Ish farmer to promote democratic interesting in civic historics of the Conservatism.
world and the new hotel will just be another important phase of it.
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