Other tablets
were soon afterward put up, and the erection of these memorials has
been continued to the present time.
The house in Leicester Square, upon which a tablet in memory of
Hogarth has been erected, is occupied by Archbishop Tenison's school,
for which the house was rebuilt. The original building, in which
Hogarth lived for several years, was long known as the "Sabloniere
Hotel." John Hunter lived next door after Hogarth's death. Of the four
worthies who were intimately connected with Leicester Square, viz,
Hunter, Hogarth, Newton and Reynolds, and whose busts are now set up
at the four corners of the inclosure, the last three have tablets
erected.
The house in St. Martin's Street, which is now occupied by the schools
attached to the Orange Street Chapel, is in much the same condition as
when Sir Isaac Newton lived in it, from 1710 to 1727, except that the
old red bricks have been covered with stucco, and an observatory on
the roof has been taken away within the last few years.
[Illustration: NEWTON'S HOUSE, ST. MARTIN'S STREET.]
Flaxman had several London residences, but the house in Buckingham
Street, Fitzroy Square, is the one with which he is most intimately
associated, as he lived in it during the prime of his artistic career.
He went there in 1796, when he returned from Rome, and there he died
in 1826, being buried in the ground adjoining old St.
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