ABSTRACT
Reprinted here are two short lists of a type which regularly appeared in London newspapers in the first decades of the nineteenth century, enumerating names of members of the elite who had arrived in London. The well-to-do would stay at their own houses in town, rent a house (or part of a house), be hosted by family and friends or reside in a hotel. The hotel names given in both lists provide information about names of principal establishments; the second list also names their location. Mentioned are the Clarendon, St George’s, Jordan’s, Fladong’s, Mivart’s, the Hyde Park Hotel, Thomas’s, Thompson’s, Cook’s, Fenton’s, the Royal Hotel, the Waterloo Hotel, the London Hotel, the Pulteney, Nerot’s, the Bath Hotel, Grillion’s, Crawley’s, Batt’s and the British Hotel. Such information can be helpful in establishing the names and locations as well as building biographies of early hotels.
