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Encyclopedia Britannica



CHISWICK

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 247 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHA-CHR
CHISWICK , an urban
district
  in the Ealing parliamentary division of
Middlesex
 , England, suburban to London, on the Thames, 72 m. W. by S. of St Paul's cathedral. Pop. (r9or) 29,809. The locality is largely residential, but there are breweries, and the marine engineering works of Messrs Thornycroft on the river. Chiswick
House
 , a seat of the duke of Devonshire, is surrounded by beautiful grounds; here died Fox (18o6) and Canning (1'827). The gardens near belonged till 1903 to the Royal Horticultural Society. The church of St Nicholas has ancient portions, and in the churchyard is the tomb of William Hogarth the painter, with commemorative lines by
David
 
Garrick
 . Hogarth's
house
  is close at hand. Chiswick
Hall
 , no longer extant, was formerly a country seat for the masters and sanatorium for the scholars of Westminster school. Here in 1811 the Chiswick Press was founded by Charles Whittingham the elder, an eminent printer (d. 184o).


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