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 .V.MARCH 3, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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(Underneath this there is a memorandum in shorthand, which I cannot get deciphered, followed by the date 1613. There is also, apparently written by the same person, a shorthand memorandum at the top of the same leaf, followed by the date 1613.) "Clem* Jackson his Booke 1714." A. S.

VANISHING LONDON : PARADISE Row, CHELSEA. The six picturesque houses on the north side of Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, formerly known as Paradise Row, and now in course of demolition, have many interesting associations. There is a tradition that these houses were designed by Sir Christopher Wren about the time he was building the Royal Hospital, begun in 1682, and completed in 1690; but as to this there is no certain evidence.

It seems probable that the ten houses of which these six formed a part gave the name to the whole of the roadway from the College Garden (now a portion of the Hospital grounds) to Cheyne Walk, and it does not follow that when Paradise Row is alluded to these houses are referred to.

Hortensia Mancini, Duchesse de la Meil- leraie, niece of Cardinal Mazarin, is said to have died in penury in Paradise Row in 1699, having removed there from Lindsey House, at the west end of Cheyne Walk, which was her residence during her period of prosperity.

John Robarts, first Earl of Radnor, re- sided in Paradise Row in a house adjoining Robinson's Lane, and here he died in 1685. Pepys visited him at Chelsea, and records in his diary that he passed his time " (before being called in) in contemplating the picture of my Lord's son's lady, a most beautiful woman and most like to Mrs. Butler."

Henry, Duke of Kent, had a house in Paradise Row about 1715. He died 5 June, 1740.

George Stepney, poet and political writer, a friend of Addison, died in Paradise Row. 15 Sept., 1707.

Dr. Richard Mead, physician to George II., resided in Paradise Row about 1714.

Richard Suetr, the comedian, Charles Lamb's favourite, had lodgings in Paradise Ro>v at the close of his life, but appears to have died in a public-house in Denzill Street, Clare Market, 9 July, 1805. He was buried in St. Paul's churchyard.

Samuel Cotes, brother of Francis Cotes, R A., a popular portrait painter and minia- turist, retired to Chelsea, and resided first in Cheyne Walk, and afterwards in Paradise Row, where he died in 1818.

Sir Thomas Pelham, Bart., M.P ; for Lewes,, resided here in 1705, as did Sir Francis Windham, brother of Lieut. -General Wind- ham, about 1700.

The following persons are mentioned by Bowack as residing in Paradise Row at the time he wrote his account of Chelsea, namely in 1705. He says :

"Near the Royal Hospital there runs a regular row of buildings towards the Thames, called Paradise Row, in which dwells John Crawford, Esq., one of her Majesty's Commissioners, son ta Commissary David Crawford ; Jermyn \\ ych, Esq., one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for Middlesex, son to Sir Cyril Wych, Bart., resident at the Hans Towns ; near also lives Mr. Corsellis, and Mr. John Pennant, both gentlemen of good estate, and Mr. John Blow."

Among the more recent residents in Para- dise Row was Charles Keene, the caricaturist, and with him Mr. F. Wilfred Lawson. Mr. G. S. Layard in his 'Life of Keene' says :

"In 1873 we find Keene again changing his quarters for 11, Queen's Road West, after nearly ten years over Messrs. Elliott & Fry's in Baker Street. The new studio was part of a charming: old house now no longer standing, having been pulled down some years later for the purpose of prolonging Tite Street into Tedworth Square. Soon after Keene removed there, Mr. F. Wilfrid Lawson, the well-known artist, took the whole house, Keene continuing to occupy two of the

rooms In 1879, the Queen's Road premises being

required for local improvements, Keene removed to his last studio, at 239, King's Road, Chelsea."

JOHN HEBB,

FAMOUS LONDON HOUSES. For some par- ticulars of the house where Shelley's sisters were at school, and houses occupied by Henry Cavendish, Wilberforce, and Macaulay, all at Clapham, see The Pall Mall Gazette of 15 February. H. W. UNDERDOWN.

FELIX BRYAN MACDONOGH. (See 4 th S. it. 594 ; iii. 300, 419 ; 9 th S. xi. 87, 136.)- If this author spelt his name in early life with a ic, he left it out afterwards. He was born in London of Irish parents, received a good classical education, went into the army, and travelled a good deal. Eventually he became a booksellers' hack, and died in poverty in- 1836 (Gent. May., June, p. 672). A memoir and excellently engraved portrait of him will be found in The European Magazine for April, 1824, with his autograph " F. B. MacDonogh."

The only work to which he put his name- was, I believe,

"Gratitude, a poetical essay, with other poems and translations. By Captn. Felix McDonogh, late of the Second Regiment of Life Guards, author of 'The Hermit in London' [1819], 'The Hermit ia