Twickenham Church is situated near the water side. The body of it is modern, and constructed of brick, the tower is an ancient gothic structure of stone. In this church there are a great many monuments and interesting memorials. Bishop Warburton erected a monument in this church to the memory of Pope, with his bust in white marble, placed over the gallery, on the north wall, with the following inscription:

"Alexander Pope. M. H. Gulielmus Episcopus Glocestriensis amicitiae causa fac cur. 1761.

Poeta loquitur.

For one who would not be buried in Westminster Abbey. Heroes and kings, your distance keep,

In peace let one poor poet sleep;

Who never flatter’d folks like you:

Let Horace blush and Virgil too."

The monument of Mrs. Clive, the celebrated actress, is in this Church.

On the outer wall of the church is the monument of Mary Beach, Pope’s nurse; with the following inscription:

"To the memory of Mary Beach, who died November 5, 1725, aged 78. Alexander Pope, whom she nursed in his infancy, and constantly attended for thirty-eight years, in gratitude to a faithful old servant, erected this stone."

Mr. Lysons has given the following extract of two curious entries in the beginning of the most ancient of the register books of the parish, to"shew in what manner the good people of Twickenham settled their differences in the 16th century."

"The fourth day of April, in 1568, in the presence of the hole paryshe of Twycknam was agreement made betwyxt a Mr. Packer and hys wyffe, and Heine Rytte and Sicylye Daye, of a slander brought up by the sayde Rytte and Sicylye Daye upon the aforesaid Mr. Packer."

" The 10th daye of April, 1568, was agreement made between Thomas Whytt and James Herne, and have consented that whosoever geveth occasion of the breaking of Christian love and charity betwyxt them to forfet to the poor of the parysh 3s. 4d. being dulye proved."

In the parish chest, among other records, is a deed of the abbess and convent of Sion, dated 22 Henry VI. by which a tribute of 201. per annum, formerly paid by the tenants of Isleworth manor (in the parishes of Isleworth, Heston, and Twickenham) is remitted. The initial letters are richly illuminated.

In the year 1720 John and Frances West, gave, by indenture, certain lands, then producing 241l. 8s.

per annum, for the support of as many children in Christ’s Hospital as the rent would admit of, at the rate of 101. per annum for each, to be put out apprentices in the same manner as other children in the hospital; 201. being paid with every boy and 51. with every girl. One fifth of the children to be of the parish of Twickenham, and chosen by the inhabitants in vestry. There are generally two girls and one boy upon this foundation. The said John and Frances West, by indenture, dated in 1718, gave some houses, then let for 35l. per annum to blind kindred; in default of which to blind persons of certain parishes, of which Twickenham was one. Frances West afterwards, by her will (bearing date 1723) gave other houses, then let at 250l. per annum, and the sum of 2, 650l. to be laid out in lands, the rents to be appropriated to certain charitable uses in her will specified; which being fulfilled, the residue was to be divided into three parts; one of which to be given to blind men or women, 50 years of age or upwards, in sums of 5l. to each; a fourth of which pensioners to be of the parish of Twickenham.

There are in this parish two Charity Schools; one for boys, in which there are thirty, clothed and educated; and another for girls, in which twenty are clothed and taught.

Many years ago there was a custom at Twickenham of dividing two great cakes in the church, upon Easter day, among the young people. — This custom was abolished by order of parliament.

Isleworth Church is a small structure, consisting of a nave, chancel, and two aisles. At the west end is an ancient stone tower of gothic architecture, overgrown with ivy on the north, west, and south sides. Among the monuments in this church, there is a very handsome marble monument, on the south side of the chancel, to the memory of Mrs. Anne Dash, better known by the name of Tolson, a great benefactress to this parish. Mr. Lysons gives the following interesting particulars of this lady’s history, extracted from her epitaph: "She was the daughter of George Newton, Esq. of Duffield. in the county of Derby; and having been twice married, first to Henry Sisson, afterwards to John Tolson, was in her second widowhood reduced to narrow circumstances, and obliged to set up a boarding school, as a means of procuring a livelihood; but blindness having rendered her unfit for that employment, she became an object of charity. In the mean time Dr. Caleb Colesworth, a physician, who had married a relation of Mrs. Tolson died (anno 1741) having amassed in the course of his practice 150,000l. the greater part of which, being upwards of 120, 0001. he left to his wife, who surviving him only a few hours died intestate, and her large fortune was divided between Mrs. Tolson, and two others, as the nearest of kin. With a due sense of this signal deliverance and unexpected change from a state of want to riches and affluence, she appropriated, by a deed of gift, the sum of 5, 0001. to be expended, after her decease, in building and endowing an almshouse at Isleworth, for six poor men and six poor women. This lady died in the year 1750, aged 89, having married, subsequent to the deed of gift, a third husband, Mr. Joseph Dash, merchant.

Besides the Almshouses erected in pursuance of Mrs. Tolson’s benefaction, there is another, founded by Sir Thomas Ingrane, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, in 1664, for six poor women; the income of which amounts to about 80l. per annum.

Mrs. Mary Bell, in 1738, built an Almshouse for six poor women, to whom, by her deed, dated 1764, she gave an annuity of 51. 4s. and a subsequent bequest of a house and land, producing fifteen pounds per annum.

Dame Elizabeth Hill, in the year 1330, founded a School for the educating and maintaining of young maids or girls not vagrants or bastards, but fatherless and without friends to help them. Her endowment of this school has been considerably encreased by subsequent benefactions.

Mr. William Chilcot, in 1658, left the sum of 21l. per annum, for the purpose of apprenticing poor children.

Strawberry Hill, the seat of the late Lord Orford, and now of the honourable and ingenious Mrs. Damer, is the chief ornament of Twickenham. It is built in the gothic style, within and without, from models of cathedrals in various parts of the kingdom. The windows also are ornamented with stained glass. The house is not large, nor the rooms numerous, but the pictures, sculptures, reliques, antiques, books, and curiosities of every kind, are of inestimable value. The rooms consist of the little parlour, the blue breakfasting room, the library, the star-chamber, the Holbein chamber, the gallery, the great bed chamber, and the small library. The garden is laid out with great taste, and contains a gothic chapel, in which is a curious mosaic shrine. The house may be viewed by tickets, which admit four persons at once, any time between May the 1st. and October the 1st, on application to Mrs. Damer, either at Twickenham, or her town-house, No. 18, Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square.

Pope’s House, on the banks of the Thames, is a beautiful villa, formerly the residence of Mr. Pope, whose favourite employment was to improve his house and gardens. Every memorial relative to the poet has been preserved with religious care.

Whitton Place is another of the numerous houses near Twickenham which deserve to be visited by the stranger. Having been inhabited by two eminent artists, Sir Godfrey Kneller and Sir William Chambers, each of them exercised his own professional skill in the embellishments of the house and gardens.

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TWICKENHAM is a parish, on the banks of the Thames, with three stations on the South Western railway, 10 miles from Hyde Park corner, 3 south-west from Brentford, on the Kingston road and 1 mile west from Richmond, in the Brentford division of the county, hundred of Isleworth, Brentford petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Hampton, archdeaconry of Middlesex and diocese of London and within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan police. Many houses have been erected in this parish near Richmond bridge, constituting a suburb to the town of Richmond. The “Local Government Act, 1858,” (22 & 23 Vict. c. 98) was adopted 14 Jan. 1868, the Board consisting of 27 members, but under the provisions of the “Local Government Act, 1894” (56 and 57 c. 73), the parish is now governed by the Urban District Council of 24 members. The parish is supplied with water by the Grand Junction Water Works Company and with gas by the Brentford Gas Co.

The church of St. Mary, erected in place of an older building, the nave of which fell in on April 9th, 1713, is a plain stucture of red brick, from designs by Mr. John James, architect, and was built under the supervision of Sir Godfrey Kneller kt. and bart. at that time one of the churchwardens: it consists of chancel, nave and an embattled western tower of the 14th century, supposed to have been built by William of Wykeham, and containing a clock and a fine peal of 8 bells: the tower was restored and the interior of the church decorated in 1897, at a cost of about £1,000, in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee: the church contains the remains of many distinguished persons: on the north wall is a tablet with portrait medallion, erected in 1761 by William Warburton D.D. Bishop of Gloucester, to Alexander Pope, who died here 30 May, 1744, and was buried in the nave: on the east wall is a monument erected by Pope to his parents, Alexander Pope, d. 1717, and Edith, his wife, d. 1733, as also one to Pope’s favourite nurse, erected by the poet in 1725: the celebrated Mrs. Kitty Clive, the actress, who died 6 Dec. 1785, is buried here, as also Sir Godfrey Kneller kt. and bart. d. 27 Oct. 1723: there are monuments to Sir John Berkeley kt. 1st baron Berkeley, of Stratton, ob. 28 Aug. 1678; Lucia (Martin), wife of James, 1st Viscount Clifden; Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, ob. 21 April, 1750; Sir Thomas Lawley, ob. 19 Oct. 1646; Sir Richard Perryn kt. ob. 10 Jan. 1803; Sir William Humble bart. of Kensington, ob. 12 Aug. 1705; Sir Joseph Ashe bart. ob. 15 April, 1686; and Frances (Brook), wife of Sir Thomas Whitmore kt. of Bridgnorth, ob. 1690, with epitaph by Dryden: many eminent persons are interred in the churchyard, including Admiral Byron, author of a “Narrative of the Loss of the Wager,” d. 10 April, 1786; Lieut.-Gen. William Tyron, d. 1788; and Selina (Finch), 2nd wife of Sir Robert Shirley kt. first Earl Ferrers, d. 1762: there are 800 sittings, 400 being free. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £475, average £436, net yearly value £310, with 8 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Henry Paul Prosser M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. The great tithes, amounting to about £180, are in the hands of seven different owners. Among the former vicars may be named Richard Terrick, Bishop of London 1764—77, and Daniel Waterland D.D. the distinguished theologian, ob. 1740. The population in 1891 (St. Mary’s parish) was 5,459.

Holy Trinity is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1841: the church, erected on the Green about 1840, is an edifice of brick with stone dressings, in the Early English style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, north and south porches, and a western tower, containing a clock and two bells: transepts were added in 1863 to the original nave: the east window contains five lights, each light forming a separate memorial; there is another to the late Mr. John May, d. 1868, and one placed in 1883: in the church are memorial tablets to Sir William Clay bart. 1869, and Harriet (Dickason), his wife, 1867; and a fine medallion portrait to Mrs. Diamond, of Twickenham House, who died 9th April, 1874, executed by the late Joseph Durham R.A.: an organ was erected in 1866: the church was re-seated in 1877: in 1893 new carved oak stalls were erected as a memorial to Miss Hodgson, by her brother F. C. Hodgson esq.: two stained windows were added in the transepts in 1897, one a memorial to the late Miss Moxon, the other a thank-offering by one of the congregation: there are 750 sittings, of which 310 are free. The register dates from the year 1840. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £398, including 12 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of London, and held since 1891 by the Rev. Peter Brownell Drabble M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford, and honorary chaplain of the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage. The population of the ecclesiastical parish in 1891 was 5,864.

East Twickenham, St. Stephen’s, is an ecclesiastical parish formed Oct. 29th, 1875: the church, consecrated at different times in 1875, 1885 and 1893, is a building of Kentish rag in the Geometrical Decorated style, erected from designs by Messrs. W. and R. Mawson of Bradford, at a total cost of about £17,000, and consists of chancel, nave of four bays, transepts, north-west porch, organ chamber and an incomplete tower at the north-west angle, containing one bell: the reredos of Caen stone, marbles and mosaics was in part the gift of Major-General Frederick Octavius Salusbury C.B.: there are memorial windows to the wife of Sir Edward J. Dean Paul bart. late of Cambridge House, Lt.-General the Right Hon. Jonathan Peel P.C., M.P., D.C.L. d. 13 Feb. 1879, and Lady Alicia Jane (Kennedy), his wife, daughter of Archibald, Marquess of Ailsa K.T. She died 11 May, 1887: there are windows to others; the brass eagle lectern with its platform and Bible, was presented by Miss Budd-Budd, and one of the oaken reading desks by Mr. Clarke, of Arundel House: the organ was erected in 1889:a lych gate has been erected in memory of J. M. Morrill esq.; there are 900 sittings, of which 200 are free. The register of marriages and baptisms dates from 1875. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £150, in the gift of the trustees, and held since 1880 by the Rev. William Murdoch Johnston M.A. of the Queen’s University, Ireland. The population of the ecclesiastical parish in 1891 was 3,767.

Montpelier Hall, erected in 1727, was used as a chapel under the Bishop’s licence (though never consecrated) for upwards of 150 years. The only register consists of certain entries on the fly leaves of an old prayer book, comprising 14 marriages and 20 baptisms, dating from 1729 to 1752, this book is now in the possession of the vicar of East Twickenham, and is preserved with the registers of that parish.

The Catholic Church, dedicated to St. James, was opened by the late Cardinal Mantling on St. James’s day, July 25th, 1885, but was nob solemnly consecrated until 1887: it is in the Early English style, from designs by J. S. Hansom F.R.I.B.A. and was the generous gift of the late Mr. J. De Lacy Towle: it consists of chancel, nave and transepts, the extreme length being 77 feet and the width 21 and 37 feet: the high altar and reredos are of Caen stone decorated with 13th century foliage: the tabernacle is of alabaster, very richly carved and fitted with highly wrought brass doors: the two side altars are that of the Sacred Heart In the right transept, with a finely carved representation of the vision of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, and the Lady altar in the left transept has a beautiful reproduction in stone of Overbeck’s “Annunciation:” the pulpit and font are of carved stone, on the latter is the symbolical representation of the dove descending, and the inscription, “One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism:” the main entrance door-way consists of a pointed segmental arch with clustered columns and richly carved string course: all the windows are lancets with the exception of two vesica-shaped lights over the High Altar and the porch, and two in the transepts: five stained windows were added in 1897: the organ gallery is reached by a staircase from the outer sacristy, and the church is heated with hot air apparatus: there are sittings for 200 people.

The Baptist chapel, on the Green, is an edifice of red brick, erected in 1853, and has 250 sittings. The Baptist chapel in St. Margaret’s road will seat about 140. The Congregational chapel is also on the Green. The Wesleyan chapel, in Queen’s road, is a structure of brick, erected in 1880.

A Cemetery of 8 acres was formed in 1868 at that part of the parish which is near the powder mills: it has two mortuary chapels in the Gothic style, and is under the control of a burial board of nine members.

In Holly road is an old burial ground of about one acre, formed in 1782, in which are interred Dr. Charles Morton F.R.S. principal librarian of the British Musenm, 10 Feb. 1799; and Edward Ironside, the historian of Twickenham, d. 28 June, 1803. In Oak lane is another burial ground of about two acres, formed 16 April, 1839, and containing monuments to Field-Marshal the Right Hon. Sir Edward Blakeney K.C.B. d. 8 Aug. 1868; and the Rev. Charles Proby, vicar of Twickenham, d. 9 Feb. 1859.

The Town Had, in King street, built in the year 1876, at the cost of the late Sir C. J. Freake bart. (d. Oct. 6, 1884), is a handsome building of red brick, with stone dressings: it contains an assembly-room, 80 feet by 40, used for meetings and concerts.

The Free Library, established at the Town Hall in 1882, contains 12,500 volumes, with a reading room and reference and lending departments.

Twickenham, in conjunction with Reading and Newbury, in Berkshire, has the privilege, under the will of John West and Frances, his wife, of sending 14 boys and girls (parishioners) annually to Christ’s Hospital.

The almshouses belonging to the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, in the Hampton road, were erected in 1840, and form 10 separate dwellings with an extensive garden and lawn in front. There are fifteen alms people, each of whom receives 12s. weekly.

St. John’s Hospital, Amyand Park road, founded and erected by Miss Twining at a cost of about £10,000, and opened by H.R.H, the Duchess of Teck in 1879, contains 14 beds, and is supported by voluntary contributions. The object of the institution is to provide efficient medical advice and medicine for the working classes of Twickenham, and neighbourhood.

At Fortescue House, an old mansion near the station, is a branch of the National Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Boys, removed from 8 Great Queen street W C in 1878; the house is arranged to hold 130 inmates. The offices and central home are at Shaftesbury house, 164 Shaftesbury avenue W C.

The Metropolitan and City of London Police Orphanage at Wellesley House, in the Hampton road, was founded in 1870; a new wing was opened in 1879 and school-rooms were opened by H.R.H, the Prince of Wales in 1882; the ground covers about 11 acres, and contains a detached infirmary, headmaster’s house, and a gardener’s cottage. The average number of children is 260, i.e. 160 boys and 100 girls. In addition to which there are about 900 children receiving a compassionate allowance of 2s. 6d. per week towards their maintenance at their homes. The orphanage is supported by entertainments organized by the police and voluntary and police subscriptions.

Strawberry Hill, the celebrated villa residence of Horace Walpole, is situated at the comer of the upper road leading to Teddington, and was originally a cottage belonging to Mr. Chenevix, a toy dealer of Regent street, whose lease Walpole took over in May, 1747, the property consisting only of the house and five acres of land. A plan for the erection of the new villa, in which Walpole was assisted by Richard Bentley, son of the distinguished master of Trinity College, Cambridge, was made in 1750; in 1753 the library and refectory were built; the gallery, round tower, great cloister and cabinet, in 1760—1 and the great north bed-room in 1770, but the structure was not completed till 1776. The mansion is built in the form of the letter L, the older portions being towards the east and nearest the Thames, these are of three storeys, in a species of Venetian Gothic, rough cast: the upper storey is lighted by quatrefoil openings and the whole is finished with an embattled parapet, with pinnacles at the angles: this part of the structure, includes the cloister and gallery, beyond which, at the junction of the two limbs, is the central embattled round tower, with an attached turret, surmounted by a tall conical roof; the shorter wing, erected by the late Countess Waldegrave in 1862, is also embattled and has a wide oriel rising to the parapet. The principal entrance is on the Waldegrave road, through a large porch leading to a spacious hall containing the principal staircase, to the right of which is the room originally called “the refectory” or “great parlour,” hung with paper in imitation of stucco, in which Walpole was accustomed to entertain his guests; beyond the hall is the old breakfast-room, with a large semi-octagonal bay window, and near this are the china room, the yellow bedchamber and the beauty room, so called because it was once hung with a series of portraits of the beauties of the court of Charles II.: in each of these rooms are quaintly designed mantelpieces, said to be adaptations from tombs in Westminster Abbey and Salisbury Cathedral. The library, reached from the first landing through a vaulted alcove, is a handsome room commanding a magnificent view of the river and the country beyond and remains almost in its original condition: the ceiling, designed by Walpole, is richly decorated with armorial shields painted by Clermont: the book-cases were designed from portions of the choir of old St. Paul’s, and the chimney-piece from the tomb of John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, in Westminster Abbey. The star chamber is a species of lobby, lighted by a stained window, and is hung with water-colour drawings of portions of the house as they appeared in or about 1780; the Holbein room has an open-work screen and an elaborate mantelpiece designed chiefly from the tomb of Archbishop Warham, at Canterbury, and reaching nearly to the ceiling: the great north bedchamber is now a sitting-room, and has a richly-worked chimney-piece, modelled from the tomb of Bishop Dudley, in Westminster Abbey: the gallery, the finest apartment in the mansion, is 56 feet long, 13 wide and 17 in height, and has five side recesses finished with gilt network, copied from the tomb of Archbishop Bourchier at Canterbury; each bay has a projecting canopy, and from between these rise fan-traceried springers supporting a barrel-vaulted ceiling; the principal doorway is copied from the north door of St. Albans Abbey: the tribune is a square room with semi-circular recesses on three sides and has a vaulted roof of ribbed and traceried plaster work imitated from the chapter-house of York: the round drawing-room, 22 feet in diameter, has a carved ceiling, taken from a window in old St. Paul’s, a bay window filled with modern stained glass, and an exquisitely wrought mantelpiece, by Richter, of marble, inlaid with scagliola, copied from the tomb of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey and improved by Adam, the architect: the new portion of the house, built in 1862, contains a grand drawing-room, diningroom, corridor and billiard-room, with 23 guests’ chambers beyond: at one end, near the central tower, is a wide exterior staircase leading to the lawn. Walpole bequeathed Strawberry Hill and its contents in the first instance to his cousin, Gen. the Rt. Hon. Henry Seymour-Conway P.C.; next, to Anne (Seymour-Conway), wife of the Hon. John Damer, and daughter of Gen. Seymour-Conway, and after her to John James, 6th Earl Waldegrave; in 1842, from April 25 to May 21, the contents of the house were sold by auction by Mr. George Robins and realised a sum of £33,468, and it was subsequently closed for nearly 20 years, until the late Frances Countess Waldegrave, in 1862, completely renovated and enlarged it, refurnished the interior in sumptuous style, and converted it into an important modern residence, which became famous during her lifetime for its reunions and garden parties, at which members of the Royal family were often present. The countess died July 5, 1879, and in 1881 the property was offered for sale: in August, 1883, it was purchased by the late Baron H. de Stern (d. 1889), and now belongs to the Baroness de Stern, of 4 Hyde Park gardens W. In the grounds is a small building called “the chapel,” which is architecturally of considerable interest: the front, executed in Portland stone and said to have been adapted from a tomb in Salisbury Cathedral, is unquestionably a work of substantial merit, but the interior is less satisfactory: the structure is on plan a quatrefoil, 15 feet in length and 8 feet wide; one recess forms a porch, another certainly indicates a space for an altar and the central space is raised boldly by steps; the ceiling is groined and has four traceried ribs with a richly-carved pendant in the centre. The site of “Pope’s Villa,” where he came to live in 1717 and where he died in 1744, is now occupied by the residence of Henry D. Labouchere esq. M.P. a singular timber structure, erected by Mr. Thomas Young, a tea merchant, which still bears the name of “Pope’s Villa:” Marble Hill was built principally at the cost of George II. for Henrietta (Hobart) afterwards Countess of Suffolk; the house contains a fine staircase of Honduran mahogany, and some of the floors are of the same material, the gardens were laid out from the suggestions of Pope; Dean Swift, and Gray, the poet, are said to have been visitors here, and a stone bust of the latter was placed over the door leading to the rooms he occupied: the house was for some time the residence of the Marquess Wellesley, but is now unoccupied.

Orleans House, now the residence of William Cunard esq. was built in the reign of Queen Anne by Mr. Secretary Johnstone, afterwards Marquess of Annandale K.T. and keeper of the Privy Seal, who was visited here by Queen Caroline, consort of George II. The mansion was long the residence of the Orleans family, and was rented by Louis Philippe and his brothers until the restoration in 1814; subsequently to 1846 it was purchased by H.H. Henry Eugene Duc d’Aumale, who erected a picture gallery and library, and on his return to France it was for a short time inhabited by Don Carlos; the house is well built of brick in a good style, and is surrounded by beautiful grounds of about 40 acres, in which are some fine cedars; in 1876—7 it was purchased by the late Sir John D. Astley bart. M.P. and opened as a summer club May 5th, 1877, but ceased to be used for this purpose in 1883.

Lebanon House, the property of Captain Willis R.N. was formerly inhabited by H.H. Francis Ferdinand Prince de Joinville, and is now the residence of J. T. Crossley esq. York House is said to have been the residence of James II. when Duke of York and in later times of His late H. Louis Philippe A. Comte de Paris, who left it about 1871; here Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellor, lived in the reign of Charles II. and in the room still known by her name, Clarendon’s granddaughter, Queen Anne, was born in 1664; on resigning his see, Dr. Euseby Cleaver, Archbishop of Dublin 1809—20, came to live here; in 1817 it became the property of the Hon. Mrs. Damer, the distinguished sculptor, who died May 28, 1828; it is now the seat of His Royal Highness the Duc d'Orleans.

Twickenham Park was formerly held by Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, commonly called Lord Bacon, and Cambridge Park takes its name from Cambridge House, formerly the residence of Richard Owen Cambridge, the satirist, and is now the residence of Henry Cresswell Foulkes esq.; in the latter is the observatory of George Bishop esq.

Among former residents may be named Dr. Richard Corbett, Bishop of Norwich, 1623—5; James, 3rd Duke of Montrose, ob. 1836; Nicholas Amhurst, author of “Terrae filius,” ob. 1742; George, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley K.B. d. 1770; Sir Charles Warwick Bamfylde bart. ob. 1823; George Hardinge, senior justice of the counties of Brecon, Glamorgan and Radnor, ob. 26 April, 1816; and Richard Owen Cambridge, the well-known author of the mock-heroic poem called “The Scribleriad,” who died here 17 Sept. 1802.

The parish principally consists of a rich alluvium, laid out in market gardens and fertile meadows.

The area is 2,383 acres of land, 32 of water, 57 of tidal water and 5 of foreshore; rateable value, £126,000; population in 1871, 10,533; 1881, 12,479; 1891, 16,026, including 169 in Kneller Hall.

The St. Margaret’s Estate is partly within the parish of Isleworth, but is given here as being within the Twickenham postal delivery; it has a station (considerably enlarged in 1894) on the South Western railway, and contains many elegant residences, among which is St. Margaret’s Lodge, a handsome modern mansion, with a picture gallery and large grounds, the freehold residence of Sir George Samuel Measom J.P., F.R.G.S.

The Royal Naval Female School at St. Margaret’s, established at Richmond in 1840, originated in the benevolent design of the late Admiral Sir Thomas Williams G.C.B. who gave £1,000 to be invested in trust as the basis of an endowment fund; in 1856 the school was removed here, and now bestows upon the daughters of necessitous naval and marine officers, of and above ward-room rank, a good education, in conformity with the doctrines of the Church of England; the number of pupils is limited to 90; of those 26 are received at the annual payment of £50, 16 at £25 a year and 42 (all daughters of necessitous officers) are boarded and educated, at the entire cost to the parents or guardians of £12 yearly, and 5, whose fathers died during the Crimean war, are nominees of the Patriotic Fund, at £10 a year, the establishment defraying the larger amount of actual cost through the means of voluntary contributions: attached to the school are several scholarships: the offices are 32 Sackville street, London; Samuel Rayson, secretary.

Places of Worship, with time of services.

St. Mary’s Church, Rev. Henry Paul Prosser M.A. vicar; Rev. Alan Gordon Smith M.A. & Rev. Peter Lambert M.A. curates at the Parish Church; J. H. Lewis Mus. Doc. organist; 8 (H. C.) & 11 a.m. & 3.30 & 7 p.m.; H. C. 1st & 3rd Sunday, noon, daily, 8.15 a.m. & 5.30 p.m.

Holy Trinity, Twickenham green, Rev. Peter Brownell Drabble M.A. vicar; Rev. Henry Walter Birkhead Berry B.A. curate; 11 a.m. & 3.30 & 7, p.m.; Wed. 8 p.m.; Fri. & holy days, 11 a.m.

St. Stephens, East Twickenham, Rev. William Murdoch Johnston M.A. vicar; Rev. Adolphus Benjamin Evans B.A. curate; 8 & 11 a.m. & 7 p.m.; Fri. & saints’ days, 11 a.m.; daily, 7.30 a.m.; Thur. 8 p.m.; A Livingstone Hirst F.R.C.O. Mus. Bac. Durham, organist.

St. James’ Catholic, Pope’s grove, Rev. E. English, priest; mass, 8 & 11 a.m.; vespers & benediction, 7 p.m.; daily mass, 8.30 a.m.; benediction, 7 p.m.; holidays of obligation, mass, 8 & 10 a.m.; Fri. devotions & benediction, 7.30 p.m.

Baptist, The Green, Rev. Samuel Jones; 11 a.m. & 6.45 p.m.; Mon. 7.30 p.m. & Sat. 8 p.m.

Baptist, St. Margaret’s road, 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.45 p.m.

Congregational, The Green, ministry vacant; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 p.m.

Wesleyan (Brentford Circuit), Rev. Joseph Olphert, 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 7.15 p.m.

Amyand Park Chapel, Joseph Durden, pastor; 11 a.m. & 6.45 p.m.

Mission Room, Church alley; Sundays, 7 p.m. winter only.

Schools

Royal Naval Female, St. Margaret’s house, office, 32 Sackville street, Piccadilly W; Samuel Rayson, sec.

Metropolitan & City of London Police Orphanage, Hampton road.

National, Arragon road, erected in 1861 & considerably enlarged in 1875, & again in 1895, for 700 children; average attendance, 230 boys, 210 girls & 153 infants.

Archdeacon Cambridge National (boys & girls), adjoining Holy Trinity church, erected in 1842, & enlarged in 1895, for 262 boys & 210 girls; average attendance, 226 boys & 210 girls.

Archdeacon Cambridge’s, Briar road (infants), built in 1860 & enlarged in 1883, for 350 children; average attendance, 300.

St. Stephen’s (boys & girls), Turk’s road, St. Margaret’s, erected in 1896, for 350 children; average attendance, 230; (infants) erected in 1876 & enlarged in 1886 & again in 1897, for 240 children; average attendance, 201.

British, First Cross road (mixed), for 450 children; average attendance, 110.

Catholic (mixed), Grosvenor road, erected in 1894, for 120 children; average attendance, 90.