The private palaces of London past and present (1908)
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937 · London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd. · leaf 435
preserves many of the characteristics of the time when Mrs. Montagulived in it, and surrounded herself with the interesting and fashionablepeople of the later Georgian era. The Entrance Hall, with its Corinthian columns, is little altered, and When in Parliament he was always being confused with… … Photo Bedford Lemere & Co. THE SALOON, PORTMAN HOUSE. PORTMAN HOUSE 335 the great top-light to the well-staircase looks down now on those ascend-ing the stairs as it did on the crowd of well-known people who passed upthem to pay their respects to the former famous mistress of the house.The…
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