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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]

… denounced as anti-social. Practices > Games & Sports Keywords Gaming Cards Dice Gentleman Clubs Duelling Suicide Vice Charles James Fox Duchess of Devonshire From the Restoration to the first decade of the Victorian era, gaming and gambling spread …

Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]

… The Literary Club Brooks's Club British political circles Anglo-Irish identity Clubbability Duelling Edmund Burke Charles James Fox Lord Byron Richard Brinsley Sheridan was part of the late eighteenth-century London male-dominated world of English …

Saint James's [ Cities ]

… Abstract St James’s refers to an urban area located in what we know as the West End of London, more precisely in the district of … Saint and Gillian Darley, The Chronicles of London (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994), p. 110. St James’s Palace Charles II, who disliked Whitehall Palace, made St James’s his principal residence, improving the grounds, laying them … being a Story of Kings, Clubmen and Courtesans (London: Yale University Press, 1998), p. 135. 17 . Charles James Fox, Brooks’s most famous member, became strongly identified with the club and its gambling activity. For most of the …

Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]

… the consumption of wine and food. London taverns such as the Crown and Anchor, the St. Albans Tavern, and the St. James’s Tavern, became important predecessors of the restaurant, with the London Tavern in Bishopsgate Street especially … drunken routs which threatened the stability of the nation. 9 9 . See, for example, the report on the celebration of Charles James Fox’s birth-day in The Anti-Jacobin, Or, Weekly Examiner, 22 January 1798. Those more sympathetic to the ideals of the …

Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]

… at the court of Sceaux, where she met Voltaire, and later became close with the president of the Chambre des enquêtes, Charles-Jean-François Hénault, who shared her love of repartee and sociability. The marquise du Deffand was a spirited … and eccentrics, men of state, and amateurs of art, literature, philosophy, and politics.  John Craufurd, Gilbert Elliot, James Macdonald, Lord Robert Darcy, Lord Shelburne, Lord Bath, Charles James Fox, Charles Fitz Roy, David Hume, Edward Gibbon, and John Taaffe figured among her distinguished guests.   3 . Walpole …

Politics [ Politics & Society / Feelings and Emotions ]

… as was the case in November 1758 when she invited the leading Opposition politician and Paymaster of the Forces, Henry Fox, to dinner. Fox, who was keen to gain Opposition supporters, recorded the event: ‘On Thursday at Ly Hervey’s to meet … ‘Jersey to Lady Spencer’, London [31 Dec. 1788]. 5 . ‘Sydney to Cornwallis, London, 21 Feb. 1789’, in Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis, ed. by Charles Ross, 3 vols, (London, 1835), vol. 2, p. 406. 6 . ‘Journal, London, 2–3 … of contest, then there were approximately 8,754 over the course of the long eighteenth century.   8 . With thanks to Dr James Harris of ECPPEC for providing these figures. The social dimension of electoral politics was particularly important …