Section 3: Index of Locations mentioned in the Canon
These entries are taken from research by many Lissuns. The principal researcher for each book is named in the table.
The purpose of the research and the ensuing table was to create a definitive list of sites in and around London visited by or known to Jack and Stephen in the context of specific action in the books.
The entries may not show all the occasions on which the place concerned was mentioned, particularly when it is mentioned several times during the course of a specific scene. Some sites not mentioned in respect of either Jack or Stephen but other characters, are included for their interest or unique entry. Other places outside the Cities of Westminster and London, such as Hampstead, are noted in the table and the list in the next section if they are of sufficient interest to visit in the context of this Guide. Others, such as the town of Rainsford in Essex ("Post Captain" page 13), are not so noted, being at some distance from London itself although connected to London action.
Some sites are renamed by POB for well-known places, such as "Black's" for White's Club, originally known as Bianchi's and a famous St James's gentleman's club in Jack's time. Some mentions in the canon of real locations or activities are somewhat fanciful: Stephen's walk from Green Park to Blacks via Kensington ("Reverse of the Medal", page 138) is a case in point - as "Black's" is placed by POB in St James's Street (more likely St James's Square, where most of the grand clubs are) this would be a very circuitous route to say the least!
| BOOK 1: Master & Commander (1800-01) - London mentions only | INDEXER: Lois Montbertrand |
| Mentions only of The Admiralty and Whitehall in passing | |
| BOOK 2: Post Captain (1801-04) | INDEXER: Scott Wilson # | |
| PLACE | CHARACTER
Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:11 |
| PLACE
The Admiralty |
CHARACTER
Jack Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:49 |
| PLACE | CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:51 |
| PLACE | CHARACTER
Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:57-60 |
| PLACE
East India House |
CHARACTER
Pullings |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:100 et seq. |
| PLACE
Fleet and Marshalsea Prisons |
CHARACTER
Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:125 |
| PLACE | CHARACTER
Stephen and Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:128-130 |
| PLACE
Upper Brook Street Whitefriars |
CHARACTER
Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:133-134 |
| PLACE
George Street |
CHARACTER
Mrs Williams and daughters |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:141 |
| PLACE
Bruton Street |
CHARACTER
Diana Villiers |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:150 |
| PLACE
The Physical Society (?) |
CHARACTER
Stephen Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:150 |
| PLACE
(mentions) Flash lane; Holywell Street; King's Bench |
CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
:152 et seq. |
| PLACE
The Admiralty Lombard Street (mention) |
CHARACTER
Stephen and Sophie Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:158-160 :161 |
| PLACE (mentions)
The Opera; Mansion House |
CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE :222-223 |
| PLACE (mention) | CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
:263 |
| PLACE (mentions)
Whitehall; Mincing Lane |
CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
:285 |
| PLACE (mention) | CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
:377 |
| PLACE
Wych Street (bookshops) Covent Garden |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:392-393 |
| BOOK 3: HMS Surprise (1804-06) | INDEXER: Bob Kegel | |
| PLACE
Entomological Society (?) |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:22 |
| PLACE
house behind Shepherd Market |
CHARACTER
Stephen (Sir Joseph's house) |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:23 |
| PLACE | CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:75-76 |
| PLACE (mention) | CHARACTER
Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:90 |
| BOOK 4: The Mauritius Command (1809-10) - London mentions only | INDEXER: Marian Van Til |
| mentions The Admiralty and Whitehall | |
| BOOK 5: Desolation Island (1811-12) | INDEXER: Lisa Kyono | |
| PLACE
Portsmouth Road Putney Heath Vauxhall Turnpike London Bridge |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
2:40-41 |
| PLACE
Haymarket to St James's Market(?) Hyde Park Corner St James's Street - Almack's Clarges Street (no 7) |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
2:42-43 |
| PLACE
Bolton Street |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
2:46-47 |
| PLACE
The Admiralty |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
2:47 |
| PLACE
The Admiralty onto St James's Park (door now covered by The Citadel?) |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
2:51 |
| BOOK 6: The Fortune of War (1812-1813) - London mentions only | INDEXER:Sharon Nelson | |
| mentions: The Foreign Office; Clarges Street; The Monument; Manton, gunsmiths | ||
| BOOK 7: The Surgeon's Mate (1813) | INDEXER: Mark Nicholls | |
| PLACE
Shepherd's Market (house behind) |
CHARACTER
Stephen (with Sir Joseph) |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:114 |
| BOOK 8: The Ionian Mission (1813) | INDEXER: Rowen84 | |
| PLACE
The Grapes, Liberties of the Savoy Half Moon Street College of Surgeons other learned societies Smithfield |
CHARACTER
Stephen Maturin |
CHAPTER:PAGE
1:9 et seq. |
| PLACE
Albemarle Street (Murray, publisher) |
CHARACTER
Graham mentions to Mowett |
CHAPTER:PAGE
9:275 |
| BOOK 9: Treason's Harbour (1813) - London mentions only | INDEXER: Sharon Nelson | |
| PLACE (mention) | CHARACTER
Wray |
CHAPTER:PAGE
1:21 |
| PLACE (mentions)
The Opera; Lady Jersey's (House) |
CHARACTER
Wray to Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
2:58 |
| PLACE (mention) | CHARACTER
the Odabashi's mother |
CHAPTER:PAGE
5:163 |
| PLACE (mention)
Houndsditch |
CHARACTER
Dundas re Admiral Harte |
CHAPTER:PAGE
10:295 |
| BOOK 10: The Far Side of the World (1813) - London mentions only | INDEXER:Tom Halsted, Rowen | |
| PLACE (mentions)
Sadler's Wells Mincing Lane Greenwich (Observatory) Bartholomew Fair |
CHARACTER
Mowett Lamb talking to Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
2:74 2:93 2:109 et seq 9:354 9:356 |
| BOOK 11: The Reverse of the Medal (1813) | INDEXERS: Mark Nicholls, Jay Reay | |
| PLACE
Black's, St. James St |
CHARACTER
Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:131-132 |
| PLACE
The Strand Half Moon St Upper Grosvenor St. Stagecoach office |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:139 et seq |
| PLACE
Black's (mention) |
CHARACTER
Stephen (with Sir Joseph) Stephen and Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:154 :155 |
| PLACE | CHARACTER
Jack and Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:158 (and 216) |
| PLACE
levee in Green Park Kensington |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:162 and 168 |
| PLACE (mention) | CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
:170 |
| PLACE(mentions)
Butcher Row; Hollywell St.; Bell Yard; Temple Lane; Fountain Court; Temple Bar; Fleet Street; Lyons Inn; Bow Street (Runners) |
CHARACTER
Pratt |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:202 |
| PLACE
Marshalsea "cross London Bridge, down the Borough, Blackman Street, Dirty Lane; Melancholy Walk; St. George's Fields" |
CHARACTER
Jack Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:210 |
| PLACE
Westminster Bridge |
CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
:223 |
| PLACE (mention)
Threadneedle Street |
CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
:231 |
| PLACE
Guildhall Bedlam, Love Lane Thames by boat to Temple Stairs Kings Bench Row |
CHARACTER
Stephen with Lawrence |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:247 et seq |
| PLACE
Cornhill Sweetings Alley Castle Alley |
CHARACTER
Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:265 |
| PLACE | CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:276 |
| BOOK 12: The Letter of Marque (1813) | INDEXER: Adam Quinan | |
| PLACE
Button's (club) St James's Street Mother Abbott's (brothel) |
CHARACTER
(Gen Aubrey's Club) Ledward and Wray |
CHAPTER:PAGE
2:45 2:46 |
| PLACE
Ramsden's surgical supply shop Guy's Hospital Half Moon Street |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
4:109 et seq |
| BOOK 13: The Thirteen Gun Salute (1813) | INDEXER: Adam Quinan | |
| PLACE
Rowley's (for Naval Officers' epaulettes) Buckmasters (Naval tailors) |
CHARACTER
Jack (?) |
CHAPTER:PAGE
4:93 et seq |
| PLACE
Guy's Hospital |
CHARACTER
Stephen ? |
CHAPTER:PAGE
4:110 |
| BOOK 14: The Nutmeg of Consolation (1813) | INDEXER: Adam Quinan | |
| PLACE | CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
3:55 |
| PLACE | CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
7:167 |
| PLACE
Fleet Prison, Farringdon Road Marshalsea Prison, Southwark |
CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
9:253 |
| PLACE
The Guildhall |
CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
10:286 |
| BOOK 15: The Truelove / Clarissa Oakes (1813) - London mentions only | INDEXER: Bill Nyden | |
| PLACE
London Bridge |
CHARACTER
Jack to Killick |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:38 |
| PLACE
St James's; Black's; Button's; Mother Abbott's brothel |
CHARACTER
Stephen & Clarissa |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:166 |
| PLACE
The Court (?Clarence House) Holland House |
CHARACTER
Stephen ? |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:170-171 |
| PLACE | CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
:235 :239 |
| BOOK 16: The Wine-Dark Sea (1813) - London mentions only | INDEXER:Andrew Midkiff | |
| PLACE
The Victualling Office |
CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
:65 |
| BOOK 17: The Commodore (1813) | INDEXERS: Jay Reay, Lois Montbertrand | |
| PLACE
The Admiralty |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
2:30 |
| PLACE | CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
2:34 |
| PLACE | CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
2:35 |
| PLACE
"Black's" Somerset House (mention) |
CHARACTER
Stephen and Blaine |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
2:36 |
| PLACE
Seven Dials (mention) North Foreland into the Thames Estuary |
CHARACTER
Jack Stephen on the Ringle |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
5:117 5:123 |
| PLACE
RN Hospital, Greenwich |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
5:124 |
| PLACE
The King's Head Mr Lawrence's Chambers, Temple |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
5:125 |
| PLACE
Clementi's "Black's" Mr Lawrence's Chambers, Temple |
CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
5:126 |
| PLACE
Irongate Stairs |
CHARACTER
mentioned by Mr Lawrence |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
5:127 |
| PLACE
Bedmaid Lane (no 6) |
CHARACTER
Arthur "Gideon" Mould |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
5:128 |
| BOOK 18: The Yellow Admiral (1813-15) | INDEXER: Jay Reay | |
| PLACE
St James's Street; St James's Park; The Admiralty Guildhall; Royal Society (mention) |
CHARACTER
Sir Joseph Blaine |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
1:1 |
| PLACE
The White Horse; Half Moon Street; Black's; Arlington Street |
CHARACTER
Stephen and Sir Joseph |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
1:5 1:12 1:13 |
| PLACE
Monmouth Street (mention) Seven Dials (mention) |
CHARACTER
Killick (re London street cries) Bonden, Stephen ("wrinkles in your arse") |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
4:91 4:97 |
| PLACE
Black's, St James's Street, Shepherd Market Almack's, White's, Crockford's, Brook's (mentions) |
CHARACTER
Stephen and Sir Joseph |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
7:170 et seq |
| PLACE
The Grapes; The Strand; Charing Cross, Billingsgate, Tower Hamlets, Wapping, High Timber Street (mentions) Savoy Steps to The Tower by wherry |
CHARACTER
The girls and Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
8:182 |
| PLACE
The Golden Cross Inn Drury Lane (mention) |
CHARACTER
Stephen and Sir Joseph |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
8:185 |
| PLACE
Academy of Ancient Music (mention); Bond Street |
CHARACTER
Jack and Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
10:237 239 |
| PLACE
The Mitre Inn Royal Society at Somerset House Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich Queen's Chapel |
CHARACTER
Jack and Stephen (attending RS meeting) (excursions) |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
10:240 244 |
| BOOK 19: The Hundred Days (1815) - London mentions only | INDEXER: Susan Wenger | |
| mentions:
Leadenhall Market; Seven Dials; Wapping; Somerset House |
CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
2:57 3:67-68; 3:78 |
| BOOK 20: Blue at the Mizzen (1815-16) | INDEXER: Lois Montbertrand | |
| PLACE | CHARACTER
Jack and Stephen in discussion |
CHAPTER:PAGE *
2:31 |
| ALL MENTIONS ONLY: | CHARACTER
Stephen |
CHAPTER:PAGE
2:54-56 |
| PLACE
Sir Joseph's house, Shepherd's Market; The Grapes Billingsgate (mention) |
CHARACTER
Stephen, Sir Joseph Stephen, Sarah and Emily |
CHAPTER:PAGE
3:57-60 3:61 |
| ALL MENTIONS ONLY:
Somerset House; The Admiralty |
CHARACTER
Stephen and Sir Joseph |
CHAPTER:PAGE
3:62-66 |
| PLACE | CHARACTER
Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
4:75 |
| PLACE
The White Horse Putney Heath |
CHARACTER
Clarence Horatio and Jack |
CHAPTER:PAGE
4:82-84 |
| DISCUSSION OF BOXING
"at ...Blackfriars, at Hockney-in-the-Hole...in Coldbath Fields." |
CHARACTER | CHAPTER:PAGE
6:150-151 |
Note:
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