Transcribed from the 1863 O’Byrne Brothers & Co.edition , . Many thanksto Kensington Library for assistance in making thistranscription.
NOTICE.
As this Volume will be revised, corrected, and reissuedannually, parties whose names may have been accidentally omitted,are requested to apply at once to the Publishers, from whom they will receiveproper “Forms” for fillingup.
THE
ARISTOCRACY OF LONDON,
TITLED, UNTITLED,
PROFESSIONAL COMMERCIAL.
PART I.
KENSINGTON.
LONDON:
O’BYRNE BROTHERS & CO.
9, ADELPHI TERRACE, STRAND,W.C.
1863.
p. ivLONDON:
PRINTED BY JAMES SEARS, BOLT COURT, FLEETSTREET.
p.vPREFACE.
The object of the present work isto record the family particulars, military and civil services,distinctions, public employments, professional and commercialpursuits, and general personal information in regard to thatlarge section of the community who dwell at the “WestEnd,” and in kindred localities.
Hitherto books of the same character have been restricted tothe titled and territorial classes; excluding as a rule thosewhom education and intelligence—tested by theirprofessional and commercial pursuits—have rendered equallydeserving of honourable and gratifying mention, forming as theydo the bulk of what is termed good society.
To supply this deficiency is the intent of the presentpublication, which aims, as already suggested, at being ahandbook to the nobility and gentry of London—the termgentry being understood to include logically those to whom thetitle of gentleman has been accorded by commonconsent—those as a rule whose vocation in life p. vidoes notdebar them from admission to our West End Clubs.
To the work, as a whole, we have given the title of“Aristocracy of London,”as a compliment in the first place to that titular and hereditaryelement to which alone the word “Aristocracy” hasbeen hitherto assumed to belong, and next as a tribute to thatother intellectual and commercial element to which, in a widersense, it may be equally allowed to apply; as a homage, in short,to that eminence of rank and that eminence of intelligence which,combined, impart their tone to our educated classes, andnecessarily to the reflex of these, the present publication.
On the special interest which a work such as the “Aristocracy of London” must possess inthe eyes of our oligarchic public—to say nothing of itsindispensable utility to every person moving in society—itis needless here to dilate: the numerous personal books, peerageand other, which have preceded it in popular estimation,constituting at once our reason and apology for endeavouring toachieve comprehensively that which has hitherto been attempted infragments only.
For the sake of convenience the “Aristocracy of London,” will bedivided into eight parts, to be annually revised and corre