Bath has attracted an extraordinary number of well-known people to visit or live in this enchanting environment.
 

Select a name... Ralph ALLEN Major John ANDRE Queen ANNE Christopher ANSTEY FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, Duke of York Jane AUSTEN Admiral Volant Vashon BALLARD William BECKFORD Mary Countess of BELMORE Admiral Sir Edward BERRY Sir James BROOKE Sir Francis BURDETT Edmund BURKE Fanny BURNEY Queen CHARLOTTE Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of CHESTERFIELD Elizabeth CHUDLEIGH, Duchess of Kingston William, Duke of CLARENCE Robert, Lord CLIVE Lady Betty COBBE Prince Arthur, Duke of CONNAUGHT Thomas DE QUINCEY Charles DICKENS Benjamin DISRAEL, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Jean Baptiste, Vicomte DU BARRE Dr William FALCONER Sarah FIELDING Henry FIELDING Maria Anne FITZHERBERT Sir Bartle FRERE William FRIESE-GREEN Thomas GAINSBOROUGH David GARRICK Angela Georgina Edward GIBBON Marie GILBERT, Countess of Lansfeldt Oliver GOLDSMITH Emma, Lady HAMILTON George Frederic HANDEL Frederic HARRISON Franz Joseph HAYDN Dr John HAYGARTH Sir William HERSCHEL Admiral Earl William HOWE John HUNTER Countess of HUNTINGDON Rev. William JAY Samuel JOHNSON Henrietta KNIGHT, Lady Luxborough Walter Savage LANDOR Sir Thomas LAWRENCE Elizabeth LINLEY David LIVINGSTONE KING LOUIS XVIII Sally LUNN Edward Bulwer- LYTTON, 1st Baron Lytton Mrs Catharine MACAULAY Thomas Robert MALTHUS Sir Yehudi MENUHIN Elizabeth MONTAGU Hannah MORE Jan MORRIS Louis Napoleon Bonaparte NAPOLEON III Richard 'Beau' NASH Lord Horatio NELSON Lady Celia NOBLE William OLIVER, MD John PALMER Dr Caleb Hillier PARRY Sir William Edward PARRY Samuel PEPYS Vice-Admiral Arthur PHIILLIP Moses PICKWICK Sir Isaac PITMAN William PITT, Elder, Lord Chatham William PITT, Younger Alexander POPE James QUIN Venanzio RAUZZINI Fanny SAGE George SAINTSBURY Sir Walter SCOTT Albert SEMPRINI Percy Bysshe SHELLEY Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN Walter Richard SICKERT Sarah SIDDONS Henry Stafford SMITH John Christopher SMITH Admiral Sir Sydney SMITH William SMITH Tobias SMOLLETT Robert SOUTHEY Marie Thérèse William Makepeace THACKERAY Philip THICKNESSE Mrs Hester THRALE  VAN MORRISON Queen VICTORIA Field-Marshal George WADE Horace WALPOLE Fred WEATHERLEY Josiah WEDGWOOD John WESLEY James Abbot McNeill WHISTLER William WILBERFORCE Ella Wheeler WILCOX John WILKES General James WOLFE John WOOD, the Elder John WOOD, the Younger William WORDSWORTH Sir Francis YOUNGHUSBAND

Or Select an address... Abbey Church House demolished 1755 5 Abbey Churchyard 14 Abbey Churchyard 2 Alfred Street 2 Alfred Street Argyle Street Chapel 8 Belvedere 19 Bennett Street 2 Broad Street l8 Brock Street 8 Brock Street 12 Catharine Place Chapel Court 29 the Circus 17 the Circus 7 the Circus 7 the Circus 14 the Circus 27 the Circus 22 the Circus 13 the Circus 27 the Circus 4 Edgar Buildings, George Street 10 Edward Street 6 Edward Street Fielding's Lodge 2 Gay Street 41 Gay Street 23 Gay Street; 9 The Corridor 13 George Street 36 Great Pulteney Street 55 Great Pulteney Street 76 Great Pulteney Street 71 Great Pulteney Street 29 Great Pulteney Street 53 Great Pulteney Street 27 Great Pulteney Street 72 Great Pulteney Street 6 Green Park 8 Henrietta Street l5 Johnstone Street 19 and 20 Lansdown Crescent 7 Lansdown Cresent Lansdown Grove Hotel Lilliput Alley Lymore Gardens, Oldfield Park Perrymead Villa Lyncombe 9 Marlborough Buildings 22 Marlborough Buildings 7 Marlborough Street 19 New King Street 9 New King Street 8 Norfolk Buildings 9 North Parade 11 North Parade 11 North Parade North Parade 1 North Parade Buildings North Parade Passage Orange Grove 33 the Paragon 34 Park Street 3 Pierrepont Street 3A and 4 Pierrepont Street 8 Pierrepont Street 2 Pierrepont Street 17 Portland Place Prior Park Pulteney Hotel, Great Pulteney Street Queen Square 24 Queen Square 17 Queen Square 20 Royal Crescent 9 Royal Crescent 8 Royal Crescent 11 Royal Crescent 9 Royal Crescent 16 Royal Crescent 1 and 16 Royal Crescent 16 Royal Crescent 17 Royal Crescent 1a Royal Crescent 1 Royal Crescent 5 Royal Crescent 10 Royal Crescent 17 Royal Crescent 15 Royal Crescent 22 Royal Crescent 16 Royal Crescent Royal York Hotel 12 South Parade 14 South Parade 5 South Parade 6 South Parade 14 South Parade 7 South Parade *12 South Parade St George's Hill, Bathampton St James Square 35 St James's Square 35 St James's Square St John's Court 103 Sydney Place 93 Sydney Place 4 Sydney Place The Bear Inn 5 Trim Street 9 Upper Church Street Pelican Inn Walcot Street 108 Walcot Street Westgate Buildings 1 Widcombe Crescent Widcombe Lodge

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Tobias SMOLLETT
1721-1777
7 South Parade

Although he was a successful novelist, Smollett cherished an ambition to become an established doctor, and tried to start a practice in Bath. He failed, and his disappointment bred bitterness; and in his last novel, Humphrey Clinker; published in 1770, he created a character, a testy old bachelor called Matthew Bramble, who lost no opportunity to pour scorn on the city and its fashionable visitors. Humphrey Clinker is written in epistolary form and Bramble, staying in Bath, is given every chance to grumble. He complains about 'the noise, tumult and hurry'; about the sedan chairs standing about in the rain, 'soaking in the open street, till they become so many boxes of wet leather'; and about 'the rage of building... contrived without judgement, executed without solidity, and stuck together with so little regard to plan and propriety'.
  Smollett's sarcasm was engendered by frustration; had he been able to join the ranks, and share the success, of Bath's fashionable doctors, Matthew Bramble, one feels, would have talked about the city in much more honeyed terms. Smollett stayed in Bath several times, lodging in Gay Street, 7 South Parade and, during his last visit, at the old Bear Hotel, which was eventually demolished to make way for Union Street.