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 n s. iv. SEPT. 30, i9ii.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 271

PEERS IMMORTALIZED BY PUBLIC- HOUSES.

(US. iv. 228.)

ALTHOUGH N. M. references, I think

Inn.

Bridge water Arms Brownlow Arms Clarendon Arms Cowper Arms. . Dimsdale Arms Duncombe Arms Lytton Arms. . Salisbury Crest. . Seb right Arms. . Strathmore Arms Townshend Arms Verulam Arms. .

would exclude territorial that in these days, when

Locality.

Little Gaddesden Berkhamstead. . Watford Digswell Hertford Hertford Knebworth Hatfield Hamstead St. Paul's Walden Hertford St. Albans

There is at Haxey in Lincolnshire a public- house with the sign of " The Duke William," in memory (I believe) of the hero (or " Butcher ") of Culloden. I have been told that there are other inns with this sign in the North of England. C. C. B.

Surely there is a " Lord Palmerston " somewhere in London. COCKNEY.

[Yes : there are four or five in various dis- tricts.]

At the junction of High Street and Notting- ham Street, Marylebone, is a licensed house with the sign " The Lord Tyrawley." As this peer does not make so conspicuous a figure in history as those mentioned by N. M., it would be interesting to learn his claims to public-house " immortality."

T. H. BARROW.

[The inn is named after Sir Charles O'Hara, created in 1706 Baron Tyrawley in the peerage of Ireland, or his son, who succeeded him in the title. Both were distinguished soldiers, and the campaigns in which they took part are recorded in the ' D.N.B.']

In High Street, Lewisham, there is a " Duke of Cambridge," and, at a short distance, a " Salisbury Hotel." The latter, a few years ago, displayed a portrait of the late Marquis of Salisbury, but, owing to some local dispute, the sign was moved from the roadway, and, I think, not replaced. The house was formerly, I believe, " The White Hart," and so appears in Kelly's ' Directory ' for 1855. The neighbouring house does not there appear.

inn signs are rapidly diminishing with the extinction of licences, it may not be amiss to give a list of those which commemorate peers and local persons of note. The follow- ing is a list I have compileTl for Hertford- shire :

Person.

Duke of Bridgewater

Earl Brownlow

Earl of Clarendon

Earl Cowper

Baron Dimsdale

T. Slingsby Duncombe, M.P. for Hertford

Lord Lytton

Lord Salisbury

Sir Edgar Sebright

Earl Strathmore

Marquess Townshend

Earl Verulam

W. B. GERISH.

In the same ' Directory ' there is in- cluded, in Dartmouth Row, Blackheath, a " Duke's Head " probably referring to Wellington. None of these three peers had as far as I know, any connexion with the district. F. D. WESLEY.

MAIDA : NAKED BRITISH SOLDIERS (US. iv. 110, 171, 232). In answer to his inquiry as to the authority for the story of the Grenadiers and Inniskillings falling in naked at Maida, I would again refer the REV. E. L. H. TEW to Sir Henry Bunbury's ' Military Transactions in the Mediter- ranean ' (privately published 1851), also contained in his ' Narratives of the Great War with France ' (published 1854), for perhaps the best account at first hand of this incident. Bunbury was acting as both Adjutant and Quartermaster-General.

Brigadier-General Lowry Cole's brigade consisted of the seven companies of the Grenadier Battalion and eight of the 1st Battalion 27th (or Inniskilling) Regi- ment, the latter " the only battalion of old soldiers " present in the British ranks.

The action was over by midday, and the bulk of the British force had returned to the beach for repose. I quote from pp. 249 and 250 later edition, or pp. 62 and 63 of the 1851 edition :

" We were amused by an alerte attended by laughable circumstances. A permission had been given that the men of each brigade in turn might refresh themselves by bathing in the sea, the rest lying by their arms. While the Grenadiers and Enniskillens were in the water, a Staff officer came galloping in from the front, crying aloud that