Richardson, H;
Guillery, P;
(2016)
Speculative development and the origins and history of East India Company settlement in Cavendish Square and Harley Street.
The London Journal: a review of metropolitan society past and present
, 41
(2)
pp. 128-149.
10.1080/03058034.2016.1184509.
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Abstract
As London grew north and west in the eighteenth century, wealth settled on the new-built streets of the Cavendish-Harley (later Portland, now Howard de Walden) estate. This paper describes how, why and where individuals enriched through the East India Company came to ground in this part of London. The cases of Francis Shepheard, scion of an important company family, Governor Robert Adams, in flight from Tellicherry, his nephew Robert Orme, the historian of India, General Richard Smith, a notorious ‘Nabob’, and a few others elucidate the market-based origins and accidental then deliberate consolidation of this settlement and stand for many more East India Company names about whom at this point less is known.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Speculative development and the origins and history of East India Company settlement in Cavendish Square and Harley Street |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03058034.2016.1184509 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2016.1184509 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | speculative housing, East India Company, Cavendish Square, Harley Street, nabob |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1498586 |
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