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Thatched House Tavern Club.—Can any of your readers give me information respecting the Thatched House Tavern Club, said to have been the most exclusive club of its day? It flourished at the latter end of the eighteenth and in the early decades of the nineteenth centuries, and is believed to have met at the Thatched House Tavern in St. James's Street, which occupied a site next to that of the present Thatched House Club. If the Club's constitution, rules, and list of members are in existence, I should like to know where they can be inspected.
Faith-healing at St. Albans.—The Rev.
Thomas Perkins, in his 'Cathedral Church
of St. Albans,' 1903, writing of the pedestal
of St. Alban's shrine, says:—
"There are two quarry-shaped openings to be noticed on the north side of the pedestal near the floor level, one of which extends right through to the south side. Into these diseased arms or legs might be thrust for cure by virtue of the saint."
Is this statement provable, or is it merely their conjectural purpose?
Liverpool Museum: British Gallery.—What,
and where, were these places, mentioned
in a letter of Jane Austen's in April,
1811? R. A. A. L.
[For the Liverpool Museum see 11 S. v. 514: vi 92, 158.]
Chantrey.—Is it known at what school
the great sculptor was educated? In 'The
Correspondence of Sarah, Lady Lyttelton,'
p. 203, it is stated that he was a Rugbeian.
This is not in accordance with the records
of that school, and Chantrey's only known
connexion with it was his execution of the
monument to Dr. Thomas James, Head
Master 1778-94. A. T. M.
[On his father's death Chantrey, at twelve years of age, was put into the service of a grocer in Sheffield. In 1797 he exchanged this work for apprenticeship with Ramsay, an engraver and gilder, where he got an opportunity to manifest his gifts. There must be some mistake about the statement that he was a Rugbeian. The 'D.N.B.' says that he was born at Jordanthorpe, near Sheffield, and educated at the village school.]
Ainay.—There is at Lyons an abbey
church of Ainay, said to stand on the site
of the ancient "Athenæum" founded by
Augustus Caesar. "Ainay" is said to be
a corruption of "Athenæum." Is this the
true derivation of the word "Ainay"?
Simpson and Locock.—Who were Dr.
Simpson and Dr. Locock in 'Pendennis,'
chap. lii.:—
"There is a complaint which neither homoeopathy, nor hydropathy, nor mesmerism, nor Dr. Simpson, nor Dr. Locock can cure, and that is—we won't call it jealousy, but rather gently denominate it rivalry and emulation in ladies"
[Vide 'D.N.B.' for Sir Charles Locock, Queen Victoria's physician, 1799-1875.]
Hart Logan, M.P.—Who was he? when
did he live? and what constituency did he
represent? Apparently he was of a family
whose estates passed to the Stewarts of
Alltyrodyn, Llandyssil, South Wales. Was
he an antiquary or collector of MSS.? He
became possessed of the papers of the
Moore family of Bankhall, co. Lanc, in
some way, probably by purchase, and they
were sold in 1901 by Messrs. Sotheby,
most of the Lancashire and Cheshire documents
being acquired by the Liverpool
Public Library. R. S. B.
Replies.
RICHARD BULL.
(11 S. vii. 70.)
Sir John Bull, Turkey merchant, and Sheriff of London in 1718, who died on 4 April, 1742 (Gent. Mag., 1742, p. 218), married Elizabeth (died December, 1738), daughter of Richard Turner, whose wife was Elizabeth Goldsburgh of Ongar, in Essex. Their son was Richard Bull, born in 1721, and married, in 1747, to Mary, daughter of Benjamin Ash of Ongar, and widow of Bennet Alexander (who assumed, in 1742, the surname and arms of Bennet, and died on 20 Dec, 1745). By her first husband she had issue Richard Henry Alexander (Bennet) and Levina, who married, on 16 Jan., 1762. John Luther of Essex (Gent. Mag., 1762, p. 45; 'Anecdotes of the Life of Bishop Watson,' 1818, i. 43-5). This R. H. A. Bennet and his son of the same names were the subject of some articles in the first volume of the present Series of 'N. & Q.'
Richard Bull was returned as M.P. for the Cornish borough of Newport at a by-election on 26 June, 1756. and was re-elected at the three subsequent general elections of 1761, 1768, 1774, sitting until the dissolution of 1780 (A. F. Robbins, 'Launceston,' pp. 265-70). But he did not take an active
