Estates in Bloomsbury
1 Duke of Bedford
2 City of London Corporation
3 Capper Mortimer
4 Fitzroy (Duke of Grafton)
5 Somers
6 Skinners' (Tonbridge)
7 Battle Bridge
8 Lucas
9 Harrison
10 Foundling Hospital
11 Rugby
12 Bedford Charity (Harpur)
13 Doughty
14 Gray's Inn
15 Bainbridge–Dyott (Rookeries)
Area between the Foundling and Harrison estates: Church land
Grey areas: fragmented ownership and haphazard development; already built up by 1800
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About the Capper Mortimer Estate
This estate in the north-west corner of Bloomsbury originated as the Bromfield site, later known as Brickfields, which was occupied by the farming Capper family in the eighteenth century (Survey of London, vol. 21, 1949)
It had been acquired by Hans Winthrop Mortimer of Caldwell, Derby by 1768, and residential development began at the end of the eighteenth century (Survey of London, vol. 21, 1949)
Although small, it became significant in the development of Bloomsbury
The area to the east of UCL, particularly around Mortimer Market, has also been extensively redeveloped for buildings of UCL and UCH
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University Street
Also known as Carmarthen Street/New London Street
It is in the north-west of Bloomsbury, on the Mortimer estate, running west from Tottenham Court Road to Gower Street south of Grafton Street
It was developed in the early nineteenth century
On Horwood’s map of 1807 it is shown as New London Street, continuing as it did the line of Maple Street, then known as London Street
It was originally intended as access to the planned Carmarthen Square which was never built
It was subsequently renamed after the University of London (now UCL) built there instead
No. 22 was the home of printmaker and former Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, John Thomas Smith, who died impoverished here in 1833 (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
The army officer and writer (Robert) Calder Campbell died at his home here in 1857 (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
The new University College medical school was built here between 1903 and 1907
The former Duke of Wellington pub in the street was renamed in the twentieth century to commemorate philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham, spiritual father of UCL
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