Bath: They Came to Bath

In 1744, when he was a youth of nineteen, Robert Clive arrived in India, as a penniless clerk in the...

When Queen Charlotte, consort of George III, visited Bath in 1817, she was accompanied by her third son William, Duke...

She was a beautiful bigamist, and a friend of William Pulteney, who afterwards became Earl of Bath. When she was...

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, was a statesman and man of letters who visited Bath regularly for a...

George III’s queen came to Bath to take a course of the waters in November, 1817, the year before her...

Fanny Burney was a prolific writer from an early age until her death, and her letters and diaries afford fascinating...

The great eighteenth century statesman and political philosopher often stayed in Bath, chiefly for reasons of health. In 1756 he...

dwSir Francis Burdett lived at 16 Royal Crescent from 1814 until 1822. As a politician, he was an ardent champion...

The ‘White Rajah of Sarawak’, as he was known, was born at Benares in India, but spent much of his...

On September 25th, 1797, Nelson, after losing an arm at Tenerife, was received by George III, and invested with the...