MIDDLESEX 



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MIDDLESEX REGIMENT 



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KiddlMbro' ariui 



ami concrete arc made, and salt 



hicc.l. 'I'll-- rner forms n 

 hart" >m protected by two luv.A 

 is; in it are 

 modern and 

 capaciou^ dock*. 

 Shipbuilding is 

 another indus- 

 try. Two mem- 

 bers are retuni'-il 



lianient. 

 .MiuMlrsbro.iL'li 



is wholly modem. 



I a I SL'O t he first houses were begun. 

 iiinl in l-s.">0 a rly. line linked it 

 \\ilh Stockton. Industrial estab- 

 !i<lmientv Mion made their appear- 

 ance. In 1842 the docks were 

 t.|ii-iu-<l. an-!, with the development 

 of the Cleveland ironstone mines, 

 \\ th was very rapid. It was 

 i borough in 1H">3. Market 

 ,l.i v. Sat. Pop. (1921) 131,103. 



Middlesex. ( 'ounly of England. 

 Wholly inland, its area is 233 sq. 

 in. ( )ii the S. the Thames separates 

 it from Surrey, 

 as on the E. the 

 l<ea separates it 

 from Kssex. Other 

 the 



Middlesex arms 



Those include the borough* of 

 A' t .11. BO made in 1921, ICaling, 

 tin! Hornaey, and the populous 

 urban districts of Willeuden, K<!- 

 ntoii, Cln-wick, Knlield, Finch- 

 ley, and Tottenham In the county, 

 too, are Hampton, ^H 



Harrow. Staines, 

 Southall, Tedding- 

 ton, and Twicken- 

 ham. It sends ten 

 members to Par- 

 liament, and h in 

 the diocese of 

 London, except 

 for a small portion 

 in that of Oxford. 

 It is still, as it was 

 at the time of 

 Domesday, di- 

 vided into six 

 hundreds. 



Middlesex, so 



named because it was between the 

 E. and the W. Saxons, u one of 

 the older English counties. At the 

 time of Domesday it was largely a 

 forest area, and a little later was 

 held by the citizens of London. 

 In 1888 part of the county, over 

 31,000 acres, was taken away for 

 inclusion in the new county of 

 London. Pop. (1921 ) 1 ,253, 164. 



LITERARY. One of the earliest 

 humorous poems in the English 

 language is the 14th century skit 

 upon knightly tourneys, The 

 Tournament of Tottenham. In the 

 Elizabethan drama there are two 

 plays with their scenes laid in 

 Edmonton, the anonymous Merry 

 Devil of Edmonton, and Dekker's 

 Witch of Edmonton. Drayton in 

 his Polyolbion sings of the fine 

 cornlands where now are London's 

 outer suburbs in the west. In the 

 18th century Pope laid the scene 

 of The Rape of the Lock in Hamp- 

 ton C o u rt ; and 

 Mark Akenside 

 found inspiration 

 in Golder's Hill. 

 Scott describes 

 Enfield Chase in 

 The Fortunes of 

 Nigel. 



Recollections of 

 Enfield inspired a 

 large part of 

 Keats' s poem, I 

 Stood Tiptoe upon 

 a Little Hill. Hood 

 wrote of the work 

 of a Bedfont 

 topiary artist in his 

 poem, The Two 

 Peacocks. Cob- 

 bett has passages 

 on parts of the 

 county in his Rural 

 Rides. Dickens 

 describes Bill Sikes 



Middlesex. Map of the English county north of th on burglary intent 

 Thames, and one of the home counties a 8 taking Uliver 



Twiut by Isleworth. Hampton, 

 and Shepperton ; Thackeray, in 

 memory of hi* own nchoolday* 

 there, makes Henry Esmond pant 

 part of his early life at Haling : 

 while Harrison Ainsworth ha- m<i !i 



are 



( nine. Colne, and 

 I'.rcnt. The sur- 

 face is fairly level, 

 although there is 

 a range of hills 



in the N., and the soil is fertile. 

 Brentford is the county town, but 

 much of the business is done in 

 London. The main fact, indeed, 

 about the county is that it is in 

 the London area, as represented 

 l>y t!ie metropolitan police dis- 

 trict and that of tho central 

 criminal court. Save for a small 

 and decreasing rural area in the 

 \\'., it is covered with towns and 

 urban districts, suburbs of London. 



Middlesex Hospital. Main entrance and courtyard of 

 the principal building 



of the county in his Jack Sheppard, 

 many of the scenes of which are laid 

 in the Willesden district. Matthew 

 Arnold's association with Lai-ham 

 inspired William Watson's poem. 

 In Laleham Churchyard. 



liibliiiyraphy. Bygone M., W. 

 Andrews, 1899 ; Middlesex, J. B. 

 Firth, 1906; Middlesex, A. R. H. 

 Moncrieff. 1907 ; Highways and By- 

 ways in M., W. Jerrold, 1909 ; Mem- 

 orials of Old M.. J. T. Perry, 1909 ; 

 Thames Valley Villages, vol. 2, C. G. 

 Harper, 1910 ; The Antiquities of 

 M., M. Sharpe, 1911 ; Victoria 

 History of the Counties of England, 

 M., 2 vols., ed. W. Page, 1911; 

 Middlesex, G. F. Bosworth, 1913. 



Middlesex Hospital. London 

 hospital founded in 1745. Situ- 

 ated in Mortimer Street, London, 

 it has over 400 beds, and a special 

 feature is the cancer department, 

 established in 1792. A cancer wing 

 was opened in 1900, and in con- 

 nexion with it there are research 

 laboratories for the purpose of in- 

 vestigating the nature and causes 

 of malignant disease. At the Bland - 

 Sutton institute for clinical patho 

 logy, the antiseptic flavine was 

 discovered in 1916. There is an 

 excellent medical school. 



Middlesex Regiment. Regi- 

 ment of the British army. Officially 

 known as The Middlesex Regiment 

 (Duke of Cam- 

 bridge's Own) 

 it is an amalga- 

 mation of the 

 57th and 77th 

 Foot, raised in 

 1755 and 1787 

 respectively. 

 For a num- 

 ber of years 



the men served as marines with 

 much credit, and later took part 

 in the Mysore War, greatly dis- 

 tinguishing themselves at the cap- 

 ture of Seringapatam. Its proudest 

 fighting records were gained in the 



