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building, he entered the East India Company's office in 1792. This pile of buildings was destroyed in 1862. It was at No. 7 Little Queen Street, Holborn, that his insane sister Mary murdered her mother and wounded her father. Holy Trinity Church now occupies the site of this house. 1800 he returned to the Temple, remaining there for seventeen years. 1823 he took No. 19 Colebrook Row, Islington, a house remaining much as it was in his day. In 1829 he removed to Enfield, and thence in 1832 to Edmonton, where in 1834 the faithful brother and genial friend and enchanting essayist passed to his rest. The sister to whom he had sacrificed his life lived until 1847.

Thackeray was educated at the Charterhouse, and his last public

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engagement was a dinner at his old school. He lived for some years at 10 Crown Office Row, in the Temple, a building since removed. From 1847 to 1853 he occupied No. 13, now No. 16, Young Street, Kensington, and here the literary work upon which his fame mainly rests was accomplished: Vanity Fair, Pendennis, Esmond, and part of the Newcomes. From 1853 to 1862 he lived at 36 Onslow Square, and in the latter year he moved to No. 2 Palace Green, Kensington, and here on Christmas Eve, 1863, he died.

To trace the London homes and haunts of Charles Dickens would require a volume. It was, as already noted, in Furnival's Inn that Pickwick Papers was written, and there also he makes John Westlock, the lover of

Ruth Pinch, reside. No. 1 Devonshire Terrace, No. 1 Devonshire Terrace, Regent's Park, was his home from 1839 to 1851, and here he wrote the most famous of his stories, notably The Old Curiosity Shop, The Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and David Copperfield. Here also died Grip, Barnaby Rudge's raven. In 1851 he moved to Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, and here wrote Bleak House, Little Dorrit, a story that embalms some of his own early troubles, Hard Times, and A Tale of Two Cities. Mr. Tulkinghorn's house in Bleak House, was that of Dickens's friend and biographer, Mr. Forster, and can still be seen as No. 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields. In 1860 he went to Gad's Hill, and thenceforward his only London home was at the office of All the Year Round, No. 26 Wellington Street, Strand. He began life under miserable conditions, his youth and early manhood were clouded, but by his native force, his keen appreciation of all that was genuine and good in human nature, and by his marvellous power of delineation, he gained a lasting affection from multitudes of his own day, as he probably will from generations yet to come. When, in 1870, he passed away, the power of public feeling demanded for him a last resting-place in the great Abbey where so many of the men who have mightily swayed English life by the pen rest from their labours. Close under the bust of Thackeray,' writes Stanley, in his Memorials of Westminster Abbey, 'lies Charles Dickens, not, it may be, his equal in humour, but more than his equal in his hold over the popular mind, as was shown in the intense and general interest manifested at his grave. For days the spot was visited by thousands; many were the flowers strewn upon it by unknown hands; many were the tears shed by the poorer visitors.'

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ALDERMEN, Court of, 71
Allhallows, Bread Street, 32
Askew, Anne, 69

BANK OF ENGLAND, 76
Banks, the private, 79
Barnard's Inn, 209
Baynard's Castle, 29
Becket legend, the, 32
Bell Inn, the, 43
Billingsgate, 83
Blackfriars, 44
Boleyn, Anne, 106

Bolt Court. 47

Borough, the, 22

Bow Church, 31
Bridewell, 44

Bright, Mr. J., on London, 13

British and Foreign Bible Society, the, 213
Buckingham Palace, 188; Ball Room, 188;
State Rooms, 188; Throne Room, 192
Bunyan, John, memories of, 219

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Moravian Chapel, Fetter Lane, 48
More, Sir T., 106

NEWGATE Prison, 39

Norfolk, Duke of, 69

OLD JEWRY, 31
Omnibuses, 15,

Overbury, Sir T., 107

PALACE at Westminster, the, 177: House

of Commons, 178; House of Lords, 181
Palmer, Sir T., dying speech of, 110
Panyer Alley, 117
Parliament, the, 170

Paternoster Row, 211

Pepys' Church, 163,

Police, the, power of, 43

QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, 25

Queen's Pipe, the, 82

RECORD OFFICE, 48

Religious Tract Society, the work of, 212

Rolls Chapel, 205

Royal Courts of Justice, 195

Royal Exchange, 16

Royal Mint, 79

Royal Society, the, house of, 47

ST. ANDREW's, Holborn, 40

St. Bartholomew the Great, 159
St. Bride's, 47

St. Dunstan's in the West, 48
St. Giles's, Cripplegate, 159

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TEMPLE, the, history of, 196; church of,
199: organ of, 199, Master of,, 200';
Hall of Middle Temple, 200; New
Library, 203; Hall of Inner Temple,
203; Gardens of, 203
Temple Bar, 50

Thackeray, memories of, 222
Throckmorton, Sir N., 69

Tower, the, history of, 91; buildings of 92;
White Tower, 95; Little Ease, 98; in-
scriptions in, 99, 103; St. John's Chapel,
100; chambers of, 101; Wakefield Tower,
102; Bloody Tower,_102; Bell Tower,
103; Beauchamp Tower, 103; St.
Thomas's Tower, 106; Traitors' Gate,
106; St. Peter ad Vincula, 107, interments
in, 108; Tower Green, 109
Tree, Wood Street, 36

Tyndale, Wm., Statue of, 31; at St. Dun-
stan's, 48

VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, 26

WALBROOK, 22

Weigh House Chapel, 166

Westminster Abbey, history of, 133; plan
of, 134; shrine of Edward the Confessor,
137; tombs in, 137; coronation chair,
138; chapels of, 141; Henry VII.'s
Chapel, 141; tombs in, 142; aisles of,
144; Poets' Corner, 147; tombs in, 147;
Jerusalem Chamber, history of, 147:
Chapter house, 150; triforium of, 150;
effigies, 150

Westminster Hall, 175

Westminster Assembly, the, 149
Weston, R., 69

Whitefriars, 44

Whitehall, 183

Whittington legend, the, 32
William I., charter of, 59

Wren, Sir C. and St. Paul's, 126

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