Bath: They Came to Bath

When he was Prince of Wales, George IV was infatuated with Mrs Fitzherbert. She was a Roman Catholic, and had...

The author of Tom Jones lived for some time at Twerton, then near Bath, but now within the city’s boundaries. He was...

Sarah Fielding lived for a time at Widcombe Lodge, Bath. Like her celebrated brother Henry Fielding, she wrote novels, the...

In 1770 the physician to Chester Infirmary came to Bath, and took up residence at 29 the Circus; he was...

In the churchyard at Bathampton, on the outskirts of Bath, there is a tombstone with an inscription that reads: ‘Here...

Disraeli visited Bath for the first time with Edward Bulwer Lytton, later Lord Lytton, in January, 1833. They are said...

The man whose novels have probably been read by a greater number of people than any other English works of...

De Quincey spent three years of his boyhood in Bath, where he lived with his widowed mother at 6 Green...

The Duke of Connaught was the third son of Queen Victoria. He first came to Bath in 1881 with his...

Lady Betty Cobbe, who lived at 22 Marlborough Buildings, was well-known in Bath in the late eighteenth century, because she...