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Clarendon Hotel
169 New Bond Street

(1809-1880s)
The first mentions of this Coffee House are in 1809 when I. Jacquier is
listed as the proprietor and it was used for masonic meetings. Jacquier it
was said had been a French cook "who contrived to amass a large sum of
money in the service of King Louis XVIII, and subsequently, wth Lord
Darnley. This was the only public hotel where you could get a genuine
French dinner, and for which, you seldom paid less than three or four
pounds; your bottle of champagne, or of claret, in 1814 costing you a
guinea". In 1827 the proprietor was listed as Lewis Jaquier. By 1850 a
commentator said it was "perhaps the best hotel in London" but in 1891
Wheatley recorded that "differences as to the renewal of the lease led to it
being closed a few years ago, and the site is now occupied by a row of
handsome shops and a picture gallery".

A free front posted in Thirsk, Yorkshire on 21st October 1837 addressed
to J.Watts Russell, Esq. originally to Ham Hall, (Ashbourn in Derbyshire)
but re-directed to Clarendon Hotel where it arrived on the 26th.