Memorials of St. James's street : together with the annals of Almack's / by E. Beresford Chancellor, M.A., with sixteen illustrations.

  • E. Beresford Chancellor
Date:
1922
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Credit: Memorials of St. James's street : together with the annals of Almack's / by E. Beresford Chancellor, M.A., with sixteen illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at this address, and it was from this house, in 1809, that he went for the first time to take his seat in the House of Lords. Dallas has left the following account of the incident:— “On that day [March 18th], passing down St James’s Street, but with no intention of calling, I saw his chariot at his door, and went in. His countenance, paler than usual, showed that his mind was agitated, and that he was thinking of the nobleman1 to whom he had once looked for a hand and countenance in his introduction to the House. He said to me: 41 am glad you happened to come in; I am going to take my seat, perhaps you will go with me.’ I expressed my readiness to attend him; while, at the same time, I concealed the shock I felt on thinking that this young man, who, by birth, fortune, and talent, stood high in life, should have lived so unconnected and neglected by persons of his own rank, that there was not a single member of the senate to which he belonged, to whom he could or would apply to introduce him in a manner becoming his birth. I saw that he felt the situation, and I fully partook his indignation.” 2 We find letters from Byron, to his mother and others, dated from No. 8, during 1809. At a later period, as we shall see, he was living in Bennet Street. No. 10, which has recently been converted into the headquarters of Messrs Peters, the carriage builders, but was formerly Rumpelmeyers and before that a club and a coachbuilder’s in turn, was in the early days of Queen Victoria’s reign the St James’s Bazaar, which Crockford had built, looking, as we can see from Tallis’s elevation, not unlike it does to-day. The mention of Tallis brings me naturally to a con¬ sideration of this portion of St James’s Street as it ap¬ pears in his London Street Views. From this source we see 1 Lord Carlisle. 2 See Moore’s Life of Byron.