Novelist, playwright. Born Somerset. Half-brother to Sir John Fielding. Lived in Bow Street and Essex Street. Play: The Miser. Novels: Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones. As magistrate he carried out a number of reforms including the formation of the 'Bow Street Runners', the first modern police force. Towards the end of his life moved to Fordhook, a large house in Ealing. Travelled to Portugal for his health but died near Lisbon and was buried there in the English cemetery at St George's Church.
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Henry Fielding (writer)
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Bow Street
Bow Street was formed about 1637. It has been the residence of many notable m...
Essex Street & Essex Hall
This plaque was first erected at 7 Essex Street in 1962 and then re-erected h...
Other Subjects
Sir Tasker Watkins
Soldier and judge. Born at 9 Station Terrace, Nelson, Glamorgan. In Normandy, he led an assault on a German machine-gun post. After all the other officers were killed in the approach, he continued ...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, France, Wales
1 memorial
1 memorial
Old Watch House - E17
Before an effective police force was established each local council or vestry organised their own watchmen. The watch house was where they would hold prisoners before they appeared in court. Like t...
1 memorial
Lieutenant Felix Ernest Jones, MC
Felix Ernest Jones was born on 27 May 1888, a son of William Jones (1855-1925) and Madeline Mary Jones née Weiss (1857-1914). His birth was registered in the Edmonton registration district, Middles...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Joseph Payne
Lived in a cottage in Highgate West Hill, a deputy assistant judge, a zealous total abstainer, supporter of Bands of Hope. Temperance Standard Bearers of the Nineteenth Century: A Biographical ......
2 memorials
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