Brewer Street
Names
- Brewer Street
Street/Area/District
- Brewer Street
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Brewer Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Brewer's Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Brewer Street
- 1799 London (Horwood): Brewer Street
Descriptions
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Brewer-St., Golden-square, is the second turning on the left in Great Windmill-street from the Haymarket, and is the continuation of Little Pulteney-street from Wardour-street. It leads to Glasshouse-street and Vigo-lane.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Brewer Street, Golden Square, leads from Great Windmill Street to Warwick Street. Built circ. 1679. Esquire Sherwood, from whom "Sherwood Street" adjoining derives its name, was living here in 1680; and in 1683 Mons. Foubert, from whom Foubert Place derives its name. In 1765 David Hume desires a letter to be sent to him at "Miss Elliot's, Brewer Street, Golden Square." He was also there in 1767. The Chevalier D'Eon dates his advertisement entreating the People of England "not to renew any policies on his sex," "Brewer Street, Golden Square, November 11, 1775." The validity of one of these policies was tried before Lord Mansfield, July 1, 1777. Nancy Parsons and the Duke of Grafton had "a quiet house" in this street.1 George Dawe, R.A., the portrait painter, was born here, February 8, 1781. Before Nelson embarked for the last time he went to Peddieson's, the undertaker, in Brewer Street, where he kept his Aboukir coffin, and gave instructions respecting it.2
1 Grenville Corr., vol. iv. p. 276.
2 Despatches, vol. vii. p. 35, note.