Chiswick

Chiswick, a suburban parish of Middlesex, on the north bank of the Thames, $7\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ miles W. by S. of St Paul's. Here are some charming old river-side houses (one of them William Morris's home); here too are extensive market-gardens to supply London, and the gardens of the Horticultural Society. In the churchyard are Hogarth's grave and Foscolo's cenotaph; and at the Duke of Devonshire's beautiful villa, Chiswick House, died Fox and Canning. Pop. (1861) 6505; (1891) 21,964. See an article in Harper's for August 1888.