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Bloomsbury Square is in Bloomsbury.
On 8th November 1707 Samuel Barnardiston 1st Baronet (age 87) died at his house in Bloomsbury Square. His nephew Samuel (age 48) succeeded 2nd Baronet Barnardiston of Brightwell in Suffolk.
On 29th October 1722 George Thorold 1st Baronet (age 56) died without suriving issue at Bloomsbury Square. His brother Samuel (age 49) succeeded 2nd Baronet Thorold of Harmston.
Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Square, Camden, London, England, British Isles
54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury Square, Camden, London, England, British Isles
On 8th February 1819 John Ruskin was born to John James Ruskin (age 34) and Margaret Cock (age 38) at 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square.
Endell Street, Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Square, Camden, London, England, British Isles
St Gile's Workshouse, Bloomsbury, Endell Street, Bloomsbury Square, Camden, London, England, British Isles [Map]
In 1884 Simeon Solomon (age 43) was admitted to the St Gile's Workshouse, Bloomsbury [Map].
On 14th August 1905 Simeon Solomon (age 64) died in the dining-room of St Gile's Workshouse, Bloomsbury [Map] from complications brought on by alcoholism. He was buried at Willesden Cemetery.
"Inquest." The Times, 18 August 1905:
Mr. Walter Schroder held an inquest at St. Giles's Coroner's Court yesterday regarding the death of Simeon Solomon, aged 63, bachelor, an oil-painter, who was described as of the pre-Raphaelite school and at one time an associate of Rossetti and Burne-Jones. Solomon, according to his cousin, Mr. G. J. Nathan, of late years had led an intemperate and irregular life. The witness last saw him alive in May, when he gave him an outfit of clothes and money. He also gave him a commission for a drawing which was never executed. People highly placed in society would have liked him to paint pictures for them, but he could not be relied on to execute any commission. Other evidence showed that Solomon had been "off and on" an inmate of St. Giles's Workhouse during the past five years. On Wednesday, May 24 last, after the visit to his cousin, he was found lying on the footpath in Great Turnstile, High Holborn. He complained of illness and was conveyed to King's College Hospital, whence he was transferred to St. Giles's Workhouse. He was then suffering from bronchitis and alcoholism. He remained in the house, and on Monday morning last suddenly expired in the dining hall from, as Dr. A. C. Allen, the medical officer testified, heart failure consequent on aortic disease of that organ and other ailments. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. It was stated that a picture by the deceased recently sold at Christie's realised 250 guineas and that in former days several of his paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy.
Southampton House, Bloomsbury Square, Camden, London, England, British Isles
John Evelyn's Diary. 21st July 1664. I dined with my Lord Treasurer (age 57) at Southampton House, where his Lordship used me with singular humanity. I went in the afternoon to Chelsea, to wait on the Duke of Ormond (age 53), and returned to London.
John Evelyn's Diary. 29th June 1670. To London, in order to my niece's marriage, Mary, daughter to my late brother Richard, of Woodcot, with the eldest son of Mr. Attorney Montague, which was celebrated at Southampton-House chapel, after which a magnificent entertainment, feast, and dancing, dinner and supper, in the great room there; but the bride was bedded at my sister's lodging, in Drury-Lane.
On 27th September 1735 Diana Spencer Duchess Bedford (age 25) died at Southampton House.
Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square, Camden, London, England, British Isles
In 1668 John Hayls (age 68) moved from Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square to Long Acre.
On 21st January 1710 John Ashburnham 1st Baron Ashburnham (age 54) died at Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square. His son William (age 30) succeeded 2nd Baron Ashburnham of Ashburnham in Sussex. Catherine Taylor by marriage Baroness Ashburnham of Ashburnham in Sussex.
Southampton Market, Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square, Camden, London, England, British Isles
Cake House, Southampton Market, Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square, Camden, London, England, British Isles
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 16th April 1667. Thence took them all to the Cake-house, in Southampton Market-place, where Pierce told us the story how, in good earnest, [the King (age 36)] is offended with the Duke of Richmond's (age 28) marrying, and Mrs. Stewart's (age 19) sending the King his jewels again. As she tells it, it is the noblest romance and example of a brave lady that ever I read in my life. Pretty to hear them talk of yesterday's play, and I durst not own to my wife to have seen it.
