At No. 14 resided for many years the mother of Mr. Justice Burton, to whom belonged the freehold of this strip of land. She died here in 1799. Her son, Mr. Justice Burton, resided for many years in the house at the west corner of the entrance to the Barrack. Bred to the law, he became Recorder of Oxford and a King’s Counsel, and in July, 1778, was appointed one of the judges of Wales and Chester. He represented Woodstock and Oxford in several Parliaments, supporting the ministry of William Pitt, and at last became Father of the Benchers of Lincoln’s Inn. He died in Brook Street, December, 1832, aged 89. The freehold mentioned was originally vested in the Laremar family. The first one of whom anything is known, was one William Laremar, captain of the Loyal Rebecca, a ship trading to Virginia in 1676, a time when the colony was disturbed by the rebellion of Nathaniel Bacon; the use of the vessel was given to the governor, Sir William Berkeley, by whom Laremar was appointed Commodore in St. James River, and was “maynly instrumental in the suppression of that rebellion and mutiny,” for which good service he received compensation from the Admiralty, the secretary of which was then Samuel Pepys. From the Laremars the property passed to the Burtons, from them to the Coles, and it is now enjoyed by Owen Blayney Cole, Esq. Liston also resided at 14 many years; and the next house was once tenanted by the Tathams, one of whom married Adam Adolphus, brother of the celebrated counsellor. In No. 3 of the present houses lived General Campbell, an old Peninsular veteran. He died in June, 1852. No. 10 is the residence of Mr. Coningham, M.P. for Brighton, and 11, of James Goding, Esq. The “White Horse Inn” was formerly established on the site of No. 11.; afterwards it was removed to the corner of the entrance of the Foot Barracks, but was pulled down in September, 1856, with three houses, one of which was Liston’s. Nos. 15 to 20 were built in 1849–50. From the corner of Wilton Place the row extends ten houses further. No. 28 was Mr. Blore’s, the statuary’s. A house which stood at the corner, and narrowed the entrance to Wilton Place very considerably, was removed about 1841. For many years a Mrs. Dowell carried on the business of tobacconist here. She was an eccentric old damsel, and so exceedingly partial to the late Duke of Wellington, that she was continually inventing some new plan whereby to express her regard. She sent him occasionally patties, cakes, and other similar _delicacies_, and as it was useless to attempt to defeat the old woman’s pertinacity, everything was taken in. To such a pitch did she carry this mania, that I have heard she regularly laid for him at her table, constantly expecting he would call in. With her lodged William Pickett, who lived in Knightsbridge the greater part of his life. A gravestone in St. George’s ground tells his short history:—