A Walk from London to FulhamCroker, Thomas Crofton
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A Walk from London to Fulham
Croker, Thomas Crofton
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His funeral, which took place on the 14th June 1810, from
Michael’s Place, was attended by West, the president, Phillips, Tresham,
and other members of the Royal Academy, by his countryman Vendramini, and
almost all the distinguished engravers of the day, with other artists and
friends to art.
The greater portion of No. 13, Michael’s Place, is shown in the sketch of
No. 12, and the former may be mentioned as the residence of the widow of
the builder, Madame Novosielski, who died here on the 30th November,
1820. This was the address of Miss Helen Faucit, immediately previous to
her successful appearance in the English drama before a French audience,
and is at present in the occupation of Mr. Weigall, an artist whose works
are highly prized.
Mrs. Billington, the well-known singer and actress, has resided at No.
15.
Miss Pope, an actress of considerable reputation, died at No. 17,
Michael’s Place, on the 30th July, 1818, aged seventy-five. Her talents
had been cultivated by the celebrated Mrs. Clive, and she was
distinguished by the notice of Garrick. As a representative of old
women, Miss Pope is said to have been unrivalled; and, for more than half
a century, she remained constant to the boards of Drury Lane Theatre,
never having performed at any other with the exception of a season at
Dublin and another at Liverpool.
Mr. John Heneage Jesse, in 1842, while engaged in the publication of
‘Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution of 1688 to the
Death of George II.,’ 3 vols. 8vo, a continuation of his ‘History of the
Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts,’ lodged at No. 18.
Mr. Yates, the manager of the Adelphi Theatre, and an actor of
considerable and varied powers, resided at No. 21, Michael’s Place,
immediately previous to his accepting a short engagement in Ireland,
where he ruptured a blood-vessel, and returned to England in so weak a
state that he died on the 21st June, 1842, a few days after his arrival
at the Euston Hotel, Euston Square, from whence it was considered, when
he reached London, imprudent to remove him to Brompton. He was in the
forty-fifth year of his age, and made his first appearance in London at
Covent Garden on the 7th November, 1818. On the 30th November, 1823, Mr.
Yates married Miss Brunton, an exemplary woman and an accomplished
actress, who had retired from the profession for some years previous to
her death, aged 61, on 30th August, 1860. Before Mr. Yates’ tenancy, No.
21 was the residence of Mr. Liston, whose comic humour will long be
remembered on the stage.
Mrs. Davenport, a clever actress and an admirable representative of old
women, died at No. 22, on 8th May, 1843, aged eighty-four. On the 25th
of May, 1830, she retired from the stage, after an uninterrupted service
of thirty-six years at Covent Garden Theatre, where she took her “first,
last, and only benefit,” performing the Nurse in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’
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