King Charles Street
Names
- Charles Street
- King Charles Street
- Charles's Street
Street/Area/District
- King Charles Street
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Charles Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Charles Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Charles Street
- 1799 London (Horwood): Charles Street
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Sharles str. a pleasant str. betn Kings str. Westm. E. and Duke str. W. L. 190 Yds, and from Cha+ [Charing Cross] S. 610 Yds.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
[Charles Street.] Behind this North Side of King's-street, is Charles's-street, a fine large Street, not many Years built, with good Houses well inhabited.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Charles-Street, Parliament-Street, Westminster,—at 14, being that number of houses on the R. from Whitehall, extending to Duke-st.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Charles-St., Parliament-street, Westminster, is about fourteen houses on the right hand from Whitehall, extending to Duke-street.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Charles Street, King Street, Westminster.
In Charles Street, leading from King Street, on the right, in the house now No. 19, or the south-west corner of Crown Court, and occupied as an eating-house, lived that extraordinary negro Ignatius Sancho, who was born in 1729 on board a ship in the slave-trade. He was butler to the Duke of Montague, and when he left service gave his last shilling to see Garrick play Richard III. About 1773 he ventured to open a grocer's shop, by the assistance of the Montague family. He died in 1780. Garrick and Sterne used to visit him, and Mortimer the painter frequently consulted him as to his pictures.—Smith's Antiquarian Ramble, vol. i. p. l85.
Sancho died here. His portrait was painted by Gainsborough, and has been engraved.