Marylebone Lives
Marylebone Lives
Rogues, romantics and rebels - character studies of locals since the eighteenth century
Marylebone has been home to its fair share of rogues, villains and eccentrics, and their stories are told here. Over the past 10 years the Marylebone Journal has printed historical essays on the people, places, and events that have helped shape the character of the area. The essays have been grouped into themes of: history, politicians and warriors, culture and sport , love and marriage, criminals, science and medicine, buildings and places, and the mad bad and dangerous to know ‒ those whose stories don't fit a convenient box but are too good not to tell.
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Marylebone has been home to its fair share of rogues, villains and eccentrics, and their stories are told here. The authors also want to remind the reader that alongside the glamour of Society, there has also been hardship and squalor in the parish, as was graphically illustrated in Charles Booth's poverty maps of London in 1889.
Over the past 10 years the Marylebone Journal has printed historical essays on the people, places, and events that have helped shape the character of the area. Some are commemorated with a blue plaque, but many are not. This is not a check-list of the grandees of Marylebone, though plenty appear in these pages.
The essays have been grouped into themes of: history, politicians and warriors, culture and sport (from pop music and television to high art), love and marriage (stories from romance to acrimonious divorce), criminals, science and medicine, buildings and places, and the mad bad and dangerous to know ‒ those whose stories don't fit a convenient box but are too good not to tell.
About the editors: Mark Riddaway has been editor of the Marylebone Journal from the start in 2005. Carl Upsall has lived in Marylebone since 1999, and was chairman of the Marylebone Association from 2007 to 2010.
Published in association with the Marylebone Journal and the Howard de Walden Estate
INTRODUCTION
A brief history of Marylebone
POLITICIANS & WARRIORS
Edwin James, the dishonourable member
Leo Marks and the code wars
The lonely demise of Benedict Arnold
The very model of a modern major general
Profile: Earl Charles Stanhope (1753-1816)
Profile: Talleyrand (1754-1838)
Profile: William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806)
Profile: Lord George Bentinck (1802-1848)
Profile: Earl Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1832-1914)
Profile: Emily Faithfull (1835–1895)
Profile: Emma Cons (1838-1912)
CULTURE & SPORT
John Ruskin‘s tea shop
The tragi-comedy of Edward Lear
The bitter end of Anthony Trollope
Wilkie Collins: Marylebone man
The ghost of Sarah Siddons
The Hollywood tale of Edgar Wallace
The urban idyll of Patrick Lichfield
George Stubbs and the equine obsession
James Figg, king of Marylebone Plains
Thomas Lord and the MCC
Profile: Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)
Profile: John Buchan (1875-1940)
Profile: Douglas Jardine (1900-1958)
Profile: Edward R Murrow (1908-1965)
Profile: Victor Weisz (1913-1966)
Profile: Kenneth Williams (1926-88)
Profile: Jacqueline Du Pré (1945-1987)
LOVE & MARRIAGE
The Barrett-Browning story
St Marylebone: for better, for worse
The mismatches of St Mary’s
The public undoing of Mrs Mary Evans
The Earl of Orkney and the burlesque dancer
The old lady and her Buttons
The scandalous life of Lady Jane Digby
The Wallace Collection’s dirty laundry
The loveless marriage of Edward James
CRIMES & MISDEMEANOURS
The revolution at Cato Street
The Great London Diamond Robbery of 1871
The public destruction of Dr Stephen Ward
Jacob Henriques and the body in the barrel
The lady thief of Portman Square
The memoirs of a Marylebone judge
Viscount Galway and the gambling den
The US ambassador’s deception
The suspicious death of Dr Gordon Ley
SCIENCE & MEDICINE
A brief history of Harley Street
Dr Allinson’s big mouth
Sydney Ringer’s heartfelt solution
Dr Hunter’s miracle cure
The US dentist and the British smile
The medical men of Wimpole Street
Dr Richardson and the awkward bequest
The eccentric genius of Charles Babbage
Profile: Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857)
Profile: Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
Profile: Mary Seacole (1805-1881)
Profile: Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
MAD, BAD & DANGEROUS TO KNOW
The death of St George Henry Lowther
Lady Mary Jeune, the real Lady Bracknell
William Wellesley’s final humiliation
The strange legacy of Joanna Southcott
The distinguished failure of Francis of Teck
The horse banquet at the Langham Hotel
The green door of Reverend and Mrs Haweis
The Baker Street mad dog
Ye Ancient Order of Froth Blowers
The ladies of Lower Jerome Place
Debenham & Freebody v Alfred Mellon
BUILDINGS & PLACES
The genius of John Nash
The architects’ architecture
Marylebone’s garden squares
The parks and gardens of Marylebone
The mystery of the Fitzpatrick Mausoleum
The rise and fall of Marylebone station
John Castles and Grotto Passage
The Marylebone street fight
The workhouse of St Marylebone
Profile: Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905)
Index