Catalogue description Brief notes, extracts and cuttings on places and people associated with St Marylebone, compiled by William Francis Prideaux (1840-1914), colonel in the Indian army and officer of the Indian Civil Service.

1. Cavendish Square: extract from J.T. Smith's 'A Book for a Rainy Day' on its enclosure and George Whitefield, Calvinistic methodist, preaching there.

2. Cavendish Square: extract from Horace Walpole's "Notes to Pennant" on houses and residents.

3. Sussex (Annesley) Lodge, Regent's Park: cutting from Pall Mall Gazette on its sale, 1907.

4. Grove House, Regent's Park: note of sale in 1907 and biography of G.B. Greenough (1778-1855) first president of the Geological Society and owner of Grove House, from Times Literary Supplement, 1907.

5. Oxford House: note on Tilbury Store Warehouses on site.

6. Revd. John Harley, Rector of St Marylebone: brief biographical sketch.

7. Manor of St Marylebone: note from "Manuscripts of the Duke of Portland," 1711, of purchase of manor by the Duke of Newcastle.

8. Manor of St Marylebone: genealogical notes on Forsett family, who held the manor, 1563-1673, and Sir John Austen successor to the property who sold it to the Duke of Newcastle.

9. Edward Forsett: notes on marriage to Ann Nelson [1650] from Foster's edition of "Visitation of Middlesex, 1663".