William Makepeace Thackeray: The Newcomes

Colonel Newcome, after his return from India, finally settled down, in conjunction with his old friend, Mr. Binnie, at No. 120, Fitzroy Square, a house vast, but "it must be owned melancholy"..." not long since it was a ladies' school in an unprosperous condition."

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His son Clive went to Greyfriars school, near "Smiflle," short for Smithfield.

When he grew up, and set up as an artist, he had a studio and apartments in Charlotte Street, near his father's house, and afterwards occupied "ancient lofty chambers in Hanover Square."

Sir Brian and Hobson Newcome, Colonel Newcome's half-brothers, of the eminent banking firm of Hobson Bros., lived, the former in Park Lane, and the latter in Bryanston Square; and Hobson's club was "Bay's" (recognizable as White's or Boodle's), with a bow-window in St. James' Street.

In Walpole Street (probably Wimpole Street), on the second floor of No. 23, lodged the Rev. Charles Honeyman, the gifted preacher, and incumbent of Lady Whittlesea's chapel, Denmark Street, Mayfair.

In the Charterhouse, as a "poor Brother of Greyfriars," ruined by the failure of the Bundelcund Bank of Bengal, of which he was a Director, Colonel Newcome died as the chapel bell began to toll just as the last bell struck, "he lifted his head a little, and quickly said 'Adsum,' and fell back."

No reader of Esmond can pass through Leicester Square without recalling the terrible duel fought there in the fields between Lords Mohun and Castlewood, when the latter was fatally wounded.

In Kensington Square lived Lady Castlewood and Beatrice Esmond; and the old King's Arms in the same Court suburb was the scene, when Queen Anne lay dying, of the assemblage of the Pretender's adherents, who came not; his cause being lost because of his fatal dalliance with Beatrice down at Castlewood.

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