NORTHUMBERLAND 



5778 



NORTH-WEST 



like the neighbouring Northumber- 

 land Street, once' Hartshorn Lane, 

 from Northumberland House (q.v.). 

 Opened March, 1876, it contains 

 the Royal Colonial Institute, the 

 Constitutional and National Liberal 

 clubs, offices of the S.P.C.K., the 

 Playhouse Theatre, and the Grand 

 Victoria, and Metropole hotels.. 



Northumberland Fusiliers. 

 Raised privately in 1674 to assist 

 the Dutch in their fight against 

 France, this regi- 

 ment was added to 

 the British army 

 as the 5th regi- 

 ment of the line in 

 1685, and fought 

 in Ireland, Flan- 

 ders, and Spain. 

 In 1761 and 1762 

 Northumberland it was employed 

 Fusiliers badge ag ainst the French 

 in the Seven Years' War, and later 

 served in America. At St. Lucia 

 the Fusiliers behaved so gallantly 

 in defending the island from the 

 French that they were allowed to 

 wear in their caps the white feathers 

 taken from their foes, and in the 

 Peninsular War they earned their 

 well-known names the " Fighting 

 Fifth " and the " Old and Bold " 

 The regiment marched with Have- 

 lock to Lucknow, and later served 

 in Afghanistan, Egypt, and South 

 Africa. 



In the Great War the regiment 

 fought in nearly every battle area, 

 and besides its regular battalions 

 had five territorial and a large num- 

 ber of service battalions engaged, 

 making a total of over fifty. The 

 1st batt. was part of the 9th 

 infantry brigade of the expedition- 

 ary force. In 1916 the batts. popu- 

 larly known as the Tyneside Irish 

 and Tyneside Scottish were con- 

 spicuous in the battle of the Somme. 

 The regimental depot is at New- 

 castle-u pon-Tyne. 



Northumberland House. For- 

 mer London mansion. It stood on 

 the S. side of the Charing Cross 

 entrance to the Strand, with gar- 

 dens extending almost to the 

 river. The Grand Hotel and the 

 Constitutional Club occupy part 

 of the site. Built by Henry Howard, 

 1st earl of Northampton, about 

 1605, and named after him, it 

 became known as Suffolk House on 

 passing. 1614, to Thomas Howard, 

 the 1st earl of Suffolk; and as 

 Northumberland House, when it 

 became the home of Algernon 

 Percy, 10th earl of Northumber- 

 land, 1642. Bought by the Metro- 

 politan Board of Works, in 1873, 

 for 497,000, it was demolished in 

 1874 to make way for Northum- 

 berland Avenue. The lion which 

 once stood on the top of the 

 mansion was removed to Syon 



Northumberland House, London. The old mansion, seen 

 from Trafalgar Square, before its demolition in 1874 



ful ruler in the 

 whole of England. 



After 670. 

 Northumbria de- 

 clined in impor- 

 tance, and most 

 of its later kings 

 were subject to 

 the rulers of 

 Mercia or Wessex. 

 During this time 

 learning flourished 

 in Northumbria, 



House, Isleworth. See Annals of 

 the Strand, E. B. Chancellor, 1912. 

 Northumbria. Kingdom of 

 Anglo-Saxon Britain. It stretched 

 from the Humber to the Forth, 

 and from the Pennines and Ettrick 

 Forest to the sea, and was formed 

 about 600 by the union of the 

 smaller kingdoms of Bernicia and 

 Deira. Edwin, king of Northum- 

 bria until 633, was the most p'ower- 



which produced 

 Caedmon, Bede, and Alcuin. In 

 the confusion caused by the Danish 

 invasions in the 9th century the 

 native kings of Northumbria died 

 out, but there were one or two 

 kings of Danish origin in the 10th 

 century. See England : History. 

 North Walsham. Urban diet, 

 and market town of Norfolk, Eng- 

 land. It stands on the river Ant, 

 14 m. trom Norwich and 131 from 



NORTH WEST 

 FRONTIER PROVINCE 



English Miles 



North-West Frontier Province. Map 



of the province on the border o! 



Afghanistan, the scene of continual 



political disturbances 



London, and is served by the G. E 

 and M. & G.N. pint. rlys. The 

 chief building is the Perpendic- 

 ular church of S. Nicholas. At the 

 Paston grammar school, founded in 

 1606, Nelson was educated. The 

 village of Paston is 3 m. a way 

 Market day, Thurs. Pop. 4,200 



North-Wort Frontier Pro- 

 vince. Prov. of N.W. India. The 

 river Indus is the E. boundary 

 except where the Punjab extends 



