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Title: Middlesex;
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Moncrieff, A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope), 1846-1927
Subjects: Fulleylove, John, 1847-1908
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to his con-temporaries a universal genius, and that other poetwhose fortune was to be born a Whitehead andbaptized a Paul, could once be counted among thenotabilities of a place which, under the shadow ofPopes renown, has housed more enduring names, fromFielding to Dickens. But for the long list of itscelebrities and associations, the reader must be referredto such local chronicles as R. S. Cobbetts Memorials ofTwickenham. Some of the houses thus celebrated still stand,or their names at least are preserved. TwickenhamPark, at the Richmond Bridge end, a seat of LordBacon, has given place to humbler homes. But MarbleHill, built for the Countess of Suffolk, George II.smistress, and at one time the home of Mrs. Fitz-herbert, another Georges left-handed wife, has beensaved from the jerry-builder to become a publicpleasure-ground, that will not debase the view fromRichmond Hill. This house is haunted by the shadesof Pope, Swift, and Gay, as its neighbour by more 128 HIGH STREET, TWICKENHAM
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The Thames Bank recent memories of princely exiles. Orleans Housewas so renamed as making an asylum for LouisPhilippe, escaped from the storm of the Revolutionwhich Madame de Genlis had taught him to hail withyouthful enthusiasm. Half a century later, after hissecond banishment, this mansion again gave refuge tothe Orleans family ; then for a time it was turned intoa club. Members of the same family have more thanonce occupied the adjacent York House, whose earliestdignity was as home of Lord Clarendon, by him givento his son-in-law, James IL ; and so it came to be thebirthplace of two English Queens. It has now beenbought from the Duke of Orleans by a Parsee gentle-man, son of the late Mr. Tata of Bombay, thatmillionaire of princely public spirit who lies buried inthe next county. This connection with our Eastern Empire is notaltogether a new one for York House. A visitor herein his day was the Brahmin reformer Rammohun Roy,founder of the Brahmo-Somaj church, who is said tohave desig

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