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:
page numbers are for Norton editions (USA) except where marked:
* - HarperCollins paperback (UK) # - Fontana paperback
Preface - Introduction - Section 1: The London of Aubrey and Maturin - Section 2: Places and Descriptions - Section 3: Index of Locations mentioned in the Canon - Section 4: In the Footsteps of Jack and Stephen