... made famous by a score of notabilities. Hans Crescent, Hans Place, Sloane Square, Sloane Street, Sloane Terrace, are all named after Sir Hans Sloane, President of the Royal College of Physicians, who purchased the Manor of Chelsea from Lord Cheync, whose ...

... but is, I believe, somewhat difficult to train. I noticed in a racing programme the other day that one of the horses was named after a celebrated embrocation. Time was when owners used to regard it as a clever performance to call their horses by the most ...

... prospects indicate substantial increase next season. The winners of the Wellington District Championship, the Swifts, named after the London team, have gone through the season with the splendid record of seventeen matches played twelve won, one lost ...

... Jubilee gift of an Australian lady, Mrs. E. M. Millar, of Melbourne, to the Prince of Wales. It consists of ten bells, named after the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Duke of Connaught. An inscription ...

... present by Royal request. Thursday morn ing was devoted to the opening of the Margaret Louise Hospital for Soldiers' Wives, named after the Duchess of Connaught, who laid the foundation stone last year. The new hospital stands close to the Cambridge Hospital ...

... amount of elementary education in his native home, Central Africa, where he lived some time at a trading- station, being named after the British Consul. He was eventually shipped to this country, and placed in the Zoological Gardens, Man chester, in June ...

... recently appeared in t h e Gazette of the Rational Dress Society that deserve some notice, especially as one of them is named after th e victorious J ap, who is so much in evidence at the mo ment. The other cos tume is called the Syrian. Both the ladies ...

... of a time-allowance, fourteen competed against the America. The course was round the Isle of Wight, and the schooner, named after the country in which she was built, and in whose honour she was sailed, won handsomely. Indeed, she completely justified ...

... of a race certainly now extinct. London will not readily forget the house of Percy, for no fewer than three streets are named after the house. There is Northumberland Alley, in Fenchurch Street, where Henry Percy, the earl who died in 1632, lived, while ...

... of Bath, in Summer or Winter, is its beautiful scenery. Several Parks adorn the city, notably the Royal Victoria Park, named after Her Majesty, who opened it just before she came to the Throne, and which contains a Botanical Garden of much interest. The ...

... and its manners. The name of Sir Hugh Myddelton is honoured in Clerkenwell and Islington, where localities have been named after him and a statue has been erected to his memory, and it must ever occupy a notable place on the page of history as one of ...

... Yorkshire, and has lived for the past thirty-three years at Cape Town. His residence at Sea Point, a suburb of Cape Town, is named after his native place. In responding to the toast of his health, the hero of the hour was, as usual, delightfullv indiscreet ...