Old Devonshire House at 48 Boswell Street, Theobalds Road, Bloomsbury, London, was the earlier Cavendish London house, sold by William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, who built Devonshire House in fashionable Piccadilly. It was owned by Benton Fletcher in the 1930s and 1940s, and housed his keyboard collection. It was destroyed by a bomb during the Blitz.
Famous quotes containing the words devonshire and/or house:
“They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That’s not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It’s just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.”
—Dodie Smith, and Lewis Allen. Roderick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland)
“The door is opening. A man you have never seen enters the room.
He tells you that it is time to go, but that you may stay,
If you wish. You reply that it is one and the same to you.
It was only later, after the house had materialized elsewhere,
That you remembered you forgot to ask him what form the change would take.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)