BRIEF HISTORY DURING THE SNOW ERA (1813-58)
The square was named for the nearby house of the
Duke of Gloucester. 
Robert
Stephenson (seen here), the famous engineer and long-time friend of
Charles
Empson (Snow's uncle) lived on the square at No. 35 from 1847 when he was
elected Member of Parliament until his death in
1859. Stephenson, who was from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, possibly assisted John Snow
with financing his early medical courses at Bell's
Court in Newcastle-upon-Tyne during his first apprenticeship.
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 LOCATION
IN 1859 REYNOLDS MAP
(Quarter Mile Section -
K 8)
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Source:
Weinreb B, Hibbert C (eds). The London Encyclopaedia, 1993.
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Old
Ordnance Survey Map of 1872
Click
here to see more details thirteen
years later
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