Bloomsbury Square is in Bloomsbury.
On 8th November 1707 Samuel Barnardiston 1st Baronet [aged 87] died at his house in Bloomsbury Square. His nephew Samuel [aged 48] succeeded 2nd Baronet Barnardiston of Brightwell in Suffolk.
On 29th October 1722 George Thorold 1st Baronet [aged 56] died without suriving issue at Bloomsbury Square. His brother Samuel [aged 49] succeeded 2nd Baronet Thorold of Harmston.
On 8th February 1819 John Ruskin was born to John James Ruskin [aged 34] and Margaret Cock [aged 38] at 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square. He married (1) 10th April 1848 Euphemia "Effie" Gray Lady Millais.
In 1884 Simeon Solomon [aged 43] was admitted to the St Gile's Workshouse, Bloomsbury [Map].
On 14th August 1905 Simeon Solomon [aged 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.
John Evelyn's Diary. 21st July 1664. I dined with my Lord Treasurer [aged 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 [aged 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 [aged 25] died at Southampton House.
In 1668 John Hayls [aged 68] moved from Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square to Long Acre.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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On 21st January 1710 John Ashburnham 1st Baron Ashburnham [aged 54] died at Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square. His son William [aged 30] succeeded 2nd Baron Ashburnham of Ashburnham in Sussex. Catherine Taylor by marriage Baroness Ashburnham of Ashburnham in Sussex.
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 [aged 36]] is offended with the Duke of Richmond's [aged 28] marrying, and Mrs. Stewart's [aged 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.
