A Walk from London to FulhamCroker, Thomas Crofton
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A Walk from London to Fulham
Croker, Thomas Crofton
London (England) -- Description and travel
was certain of being wafted to the Grange, which was got rid of in
consequence.
From Michael’s Grove, BROMPTON CRESCENT is nearly a straight row of
twenty-five houses, and forms an angle to the line of the main Fulham
Road, uniting with Michael’s Place at “Crescent House,” where the
carriage communication was formerly interrupted by a bar, in place of
which a post supporting two lamps is now substituted.
No. 9 was for some time in the occupation of Dr. Oswald Wood, the
translator (1835) of Von Hammer’s ‘History of the Assassins,’ and who
died at the early age of thirty-eight, on the 5th of November, 1842, in
the West Indies, where he held the appointment of Provost-Marshal of
Antigua.
At No. 13 Brompton Crescent resided Charles Incledon, the rival of his
neighbour Braham, whose singing he was wont to designate as “Italianised
humbug;” declaring that no one but himself, Charles Incledon, knew how to
sing a British ballad: and it must be admitted, that “The Storm” and
“Black-eyed Susan,” as sung by Incledon, produced a deep impression on
the public mind. He was a native of Cornwall, and the son of a medical
gentleman. As a chorister, under the tuition of Jackson, in Exeter
Cathedral, Incledon acquired his knowledge of music; for when he was
fifteen he entered the Royal Navy, in which he served in the West Indies
from 1779 to 1783, when he abandoned the naval profession, and joined a
theatrical company at Southampton. After a popular professional career
of upwards of forty years as a public singer, Incledon died at Worcester,
on the 11th of February, 1826.
Of Incledon many amusing anecdotes are told, chiefly caused by his
inordinate vanity, and his mental singleness of purpose. He thought of
no one but himself; he saw nothing beyond the one and immediate object at
which he grasped; and yet these faults were caused rather by natural
weakness of intellect than by an unkind or selfish disposition. In fact,
Incledon lived and died a petted servant of the public; which
administered intoxicating draughts of applause to his self-esteem.
Mr. G. Rodwell, already mentioned as having been an inhabitant of No. 14
Brompton Row, resided at No. 15 Brompton Crescent, in 1830.
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