BOW STREET, COVENT GARDEN, So called from running in the shape of a bent bow. GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S-INN-FIELDS, So called in compliment to Henrietta Maria, Queen of Chas. I. Little Queen-street, leading to Down this street Lord Russell was The whole of the north side was built a century later than the south. E N-S W Drury-lane. Lincoln's-Inn-fields. House of Lord Chancellor Somers and the Minister Duke of Newcastle, temp. George II. The whole of the south side was originally built by Inigo Jones, and from 1630 to 1730 was one of the most fashionable localities in London-the houses commanding a fine view of Holbornfields. Great Marlborough-st., a century later, was similarly situated with respect to Oxfordstreet. In one of these houses Lord Herbert of Cherbury died. In another Sir Godfrey Kneller lived for the last twenty years of his life. The large red-brick house, with an arch-way under it (now Nos. 55 and 56) was the house of Hudson, the portraitpainter, and master of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Drury-lane. |