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Old Bond Street
55, Piccadilly. (W1) Named after Sir Thomas Bond, Comptroller of the Household to Queen Henrietta Maria. (Reference: Timbs's Curiosities of London, p. 672) At his lodgings in Bond Street, De la Motte, the spy, was arrested in 1781. The great Lord Chatham lived here in 1766. Boswell lodged here in 1769. At No. 41, Lawrence Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy, died in 1768. (Reference: Jesse's London, vol. I, p. 52) |
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