Paddington is in Westminster [Map].
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 12th July 1666. I quite through with her, and so into the fields Uxbridge way, a mile or two beyond Tyburne [Map], and then back and then to Paddington, and then back to Lyssen green, a place the coachman led me to (I never knew in my life) and there we eat and drank and so back to Chasing Crosse, and there I set her down. All the way most excellent pretty company. I had her lips as much as I would, and a mighty pretty woman she is and very modest and yet kinde in all fair ways. All this time I passed with mighty pleasure, it being what I have for a long time wished for, and did pay this day 5s. forfeite for her company.
In 1729 William Hogarth [aged 31] and Jane Thornhill [aged 20] were married in Paddington without the permission of her father James Thornhill [aged 54].
On 29th July 1861 Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos [aged 64] died at the Great Western Hotel Paddington. His son Richard [aged 37] succeeded 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, 4th Marquess Buckingham, 3rd Marquess of Chandos, 6th Earl Temple, 5th Earl Nugent, 3rd Earl Temple of Stowe, 7th Viscount Cobham
On 28th December 1865 William Holman Hunt [aged 38] and Fanny Waugh [aged 32] were married at Christ Church Paddington. William Michael Rossetti [aged 36], and her brother and sister George and Emily were witnesses. She, Fanny, would die the following year eight days short of their anniversary. He would, ten years later, marry her younger sister Marion Edith Waugh [aged 18]; an example of Married to Two Siblings.
Watling Street 1d Marble Arch to St Albans. From Marble Arch [Map] Watling Street continues north-west along the Edgeware Road, Maida Vale [Map], Cricklewood [Map], Sulloniacis [Map], Radlett, Hertfordshire [Map], Park Street, Hertfordshire [Map] to Verulamium, Hertfordshire [Map] aka St Albans.
On 29th October 1868 William Vere Reeve Fane aka King-Fane was born to William Dashwood Fane [aged 52] and Susan Millicent Reeve [aged 52] at 2 Norfolk Crescent. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge University [Map]. He married 16th May 1895 Helen Beatrice Newman and had issue.
On 29th April 1925 Pamela Wyndham-Quin Baroness Leconfield and Egremont was born to Captain Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin [aged 34] at 66 Oxford Terrace, Paddington. She married 1947 John Edward Reginald Wyndham 6th Baron Leconfield 1st Baron Egremont, son of Edward Scawen Wyndham 5th Baron Leconfield, and had issue.
On 12th December 1874 the jewels of Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley [aged 28] were stolen at Paddington Station. The earl offered a £1,000 reward and anonymity to the thief if the jewels should be returned but they were never seen again. The Times reported:
The robbery of Lady Dudley's jewel-case outside the Great Western Railway Station, at Paddington, on Saturday evening, just previous to the starting of the Worcester express leaving London at 6.30pm, was effected under circumstances which leave little doubt that the thief was a practised hand, and had laid his plans with an ingenuity worthy of a better purpose. Lord [aged 57] and Lady Dudley arrived at the railway station in his lordship's brougham at 6.20pm, and were immediately followed by a four-wheeled cab conveying two of the Countess' waiting women, each in charge of a ponderous jewel box and other articles of a lady's toilette. Scott, one of the women, was the first who alighted, and having deposited upon the pavement the box under her care, while turning round to assist her companion, for better security and with commendable caution placed one foot upon the jewel-case. In an unlucky instant her attention was diverted by the other maid, and she removed her foot from the box. Her companion having alighted, Scott stooped to recover the box, when, to her great consternation, she found it had been removed. An instant search was made by the Earl's servants and by the railway officials in attendance, but no tidings could be gained of it. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales [aged 33] arrived at this moment to travel by the same train in a 'slip carriage' as far as Slough on his way to Windsor, and a desire on the part of the railway authorities to despatch the train punctually led to some little confusion, amid which the express left the station without any intelligence of the missing box having been obtained. The Worcester express made its first stoppage at Reading. On arriving there Lord Dudley alighted, and explaining to the station agent the circumstances, requited that every compartment in the train should be searched, in the hope that the missing box might have been separated from his other luggage. The search proving fruitless, his Lordship decided upon returning to London at once, which he did, accompanied by the lady's maid, in a special train as soon as the express had left Reading. On reaching Paddington, he drove direct to his jewellers, Messrs Hunt and Roskell, of New Bond Street, whither the police from Scotland Yard were immediately summoned. Under their advice a detailed list of the lost jewels was prepared and circulated among the leading metropolitan and local pawnbrokers. Among the principal articles lost may be mentioned a pearl and diamond bracelet, presented by the inhabitants of Dudley on the occasion of the marriage of the Earl and Countess; a diamond collette necklace, a diamond cross, a sapphire and diamond bracelet, a diamond necklace with pearl and diamond drops, a pair of very fine pearl earrings, two pairs of diamond earrings, five diamond stars, three diamond butterflies, a cat's-eye pendant and earrings, a diamond padlock, a ruby and diamond pendant, an emerald and diamond watch with enamelled chain, a turquoise and ruby watch, an enamelled and diamond watch, and a crystal watch. We are informed on undoubted authority that the amount of loss of Lady Dudley's jewellery is not half what it was first stated to be.
On 13th July 1859 Hannah Smith [aged 55] died. She was buried in the Parochial Cemetery, Paddington.
Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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On 21st July 1845 Charles Manners-Sutton 1st Viscount Canterbury [aged 65] died at Southwick Crescent, Paddington. His son Charles [aged 33] succeeded 2nd Viscount Canterbury of Canterbury, 2nd Baron Bottesford of Bottesford in Leicestershire.
On 20th June 1683 Edward Smith 2nd Baronet [aged 28] and Olivia Pepys Lady Smith [aged 18] were married at St James' Church, Paddington.
On 17th August 1835 Henry Bickersteth 1st Baron Langdale [aged 52] and Jane Elizabeth Harley Baroness Langdale were married at St James' Church, Paddington. She the daughter of Edward Harley 5th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer [aged 62] and Jane Elizabeth Scott Countess of Oxford and Mortimer.
On 15th August 1857 Hugh Morton Shand [aged 42] and Edrica Faulkner [aged 35] were married at St James' Church, Paddington.
On 10th June 1856 John Weld-Forester 2nd Baron Forester [aged 54] and Alexandrina Julia Gräfin von Maltzan were married at St John the Evangelist, Paddington.
On 2nd February 1805 Thomas Banks [aged 69] died. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Paddington.
On 18th September 1882 John Goldsmith [aged 31] and Jane Dorsett [aged 21] were married at St Mary's Church, Paddington.