THE SOCIETY QUIZ 1

(1) Where in Kew was Hell House?

(2) Why did the first need replacing?

(3) When King George III stayed in Kew, what was his residence in Kew from the date when he ascended the throne until 1772?

(4) When did the Metropolitan District Railway (now the District Line) stop using steam engines on the line to and Richmond?

(5) By the entrance to on each side, there are statues of two architects. Who are they?

(6) What is the name of the architect who designed the present Richmond ?

(7) What is the name of the 19th century writer, who lived in Lichfield House?

(8) Who was the Lord of the Manor, when the Chapel of Ease of St. Anne’s, was consecrated?

(9) Why was it necessary to rebuild St. Mary’s Parish church in ?

(10) Who brought the Rhododendron to Kew Gardens?

(11) What do the following have in common: the Mosque, the Alhambra, The Temple of the Sun, the House of Confucius and the Theatre of Augusta, but not the Pagoda, the Temple of Aeolus and The Orangery?

(12) What was the name of the public house on the south side of Kew Green in the 18th century?

(13) Thomas Gainsborough wished to be buried in the St. Anne’s graveyard next to his friend Joshua Kirby. Where did they first meet?

(14) Which King founded the Charterhouse of Shene?

(15) Who started making the hassocks (or kneelers) for St. Anne’s Kew Green in 1962?

(16) Which King created a park now known as ?

(17) What was the fate of ?

(18) Near which road today would one see the site of the Pest House, erected in 1665 at the time of the Great Plague?

(19) On 25th July ----- the Richmond Herald gave a full page covering the Kew Green fair, described as a “grannde fantesie fayre on ye Kayhogh Common.” In what year did this fair take place? (20) What does the Octagon Room of the Gallery have in common with Park, Petersham?

(21) Where approximately was Richmond Wells?

(22) In what year did Richmond come within the Metropolitan Police area?

(24) When was Love Lane in Kew closed to the public?

(25) Charlotte Papendiek described in her memoirs that in 1781 she was in a procession of boats from Kew to Richmond, on the occasion of the Prince of Wales’s visit to Richmond and a singer called Miss Cantilo sang with Mrs. Bach “whose voice was beautiful on the water.”

(a) What was the full name of Mr. Bach? (b) Who owned the boat?