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London News Highlights From Brook Street Baptism To Turpin Escape
The itemized London column reports the baptism of the newborn daughter of Lord Gower at Brook Street with high nobility as godparents, marriages of John Howell and Miss Dunn, joyous reactions to Herbert Windsor’s parliamentary seat, and a string of social notices. It notes a major Hyde Park waterworks project, election results for Amicable Society directors and St. Giles organist, and local crime and coroner reports including highwaymen Turpin and associates. Also covered are obituaries, a Bayford burial, excise trials, and a Jamaica Georgia defense dispatch urging readiness against potential enemy action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Gower
Brook-street
Grosvenor’s Square
Catherine
Duke of Bedford
Bedford
Cleveland
John Howell
Blackwell-Hall
Miss Dunn
Robert Dunn
Tower-street
Cardiffe
Wales
Herbert Windsor
Corporation
Viscount Molineux
Clifton
Tempest
George Tempest
Yorkshire
Banks
Joseph Banks
Charles Binyan
Hyde Park
Kensington Gardens
Versailles
Corporation of the Amicable Society
Hatton Garden
Wood
Centlivre
Thompson
Evans
Hertfordshire
Cefar
Charles Cafar
Ely
Charles Cefar
Commissioners of Excise
Abigail Frazier
Samuel Randal
William West
Thomas Smith
John Black
James Griffith
Mr. Griffith
Matthew King
Red Lyon
Whitechapel
Epping Forest
Robert King
Gloucester-street
Goodman’s Fields
Turpin
King
New Prison
Suffolk
Lavenham
Bufbel-Inn