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Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. [1] It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden". [2]
Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford PC (1587 – 9 May 1641) was an English nobleman and politician.He built the square of Covent Garden, with the piazza and church of St. Paul's, employing Inigo Jones as his architect. [1]
This category includes people from the Covent Garden neighbourhood of the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden in Greater London, England. It was part of Middlesex until 1889. It was part of Middlesex until 1889.
The entries in this tabulation cover some 150 years in the 17th and 18th centuries, when the private residents of Covent Garden included many people of rank and note. They ranged from marquesses to barons, foreign ambassadors and members of parliament to physicians, surgeons, antiquaries, artists, authors and dramatists.
Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer (née McCorquodale; 9 September 1929 – 21 October 2016) was a British socialite and local politician.She was the daughter of Alexander McCorquodale and the romantic novelist and socialite Barbara Cartland and the stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
He was a Covent Garden orchestra violinist from Yorkshire. George Bulkley was "grateful" and "useful", [6] but "dull." [2] Mary had at least three children, all born during her affair with singer and comedy actor James William Dodd (c. 1740 – 1796). The first was Mary Elizabeth Bulkley (1768–1859), baptised on 9 November 1768 at St Paul ...
The foundation of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden lies in the letters patent awarded by Charles II to Sir William Davenant in 1662, allowing Davenant to operate one of only two patent theatre companies (The Duke's Company) in London. The letters patent remained in the possession of the patentees' heirs until the 19th century.
In 1860 concerts were given in the newly built Floral Hall, adjoining Covent Garden Market. The notable event of 1861 was the appearance on 14 May of Adelina Patti as Amina in La Sonnambula. In 1863 Pauline Lucca was first seen, but she did not make her name until 1865, when she returned to play Selika in L'Africaine.