Thomas Portman MP for Taunton
Thomas Portman rents
a market stall in
Taunton for 10d a year
The Portman family
owns 12 properties
in Taunton
William Portman
MP for Taunton
eleven times
Walter Portman, the grandson of William, MP for Taunton in ten Parliaments
the Portman family
acquire the Tudor Tavern,
Taunton
Walter’s son, John,
a lawyer at the
Middle Temple
Sir William Portman becomes Lord Chief Justice of England
Sir William Portman's death
deaths of Sir Hugh and Sir John Portman, the sons of Sir Henry.
Sir John Portman is granted a baronetcy. His fourth son, Sir William, becomes 5th baronet in 1629.
Bryanston House rebuilt by James Wyatt
Manchester Square
Tyburn gallows moved to Newgate Prison
The St Marylebone Volunteers formed
Britain’s first curry house opened at 34 (now 102) George Street
Church Street &Lisson Grove area developed
Orchard House is demolished
Lord Portman created Viscount Portman
Madame Tussauds moves to its new Marylebone Road building
Many more mansion blocks added
Selfridges opens
The Portman Burtley Estate acquired
Post-war rebuilding and new development
Resettlements of the London Estate
Home House becomes a private club
The Tudor Tavern in Taunton acquired for the Estate once again
The Estate’s new office opens at 40 Portman Square
Marylebone Manors and Estates
The Tudor Tavern, Fore Street,
Taunton, built c1350
South aisle of St Michael’s Church, Orchard Portman, added by Walter and Christina
West Coker
manor house
Kip’s 1708 engravings of Orchard Portman and Bryanston
Tyburn gallows 1747
Lisson Green c1770
Views of Portman Square and Oxford Street, 1813
St Mary’s Church, Bryanston Square, 1823
Shillibeer’s omnibus, London’s first bus
Cumberland Street, 1834
Portman Market, 1834
Baker Street
Bazaar, 1839
1863 Baker
Street station
1894 The new Bryanston House completed
1899
Marylebone
station
1894 The Portman family at Montagu House
Views of Baker
Street in c1910
1940-41 Bomb damage: Bryanston Square & Great Cumberland Place/Seymour Street
death of Edward I
the reign of Edward III
Hundred Years’ War with France begins
Battle of Crecy
Black Death
Battle of Poitiers
Richard II becomes king
Peasants’ Revolt
Henry V king, in succession to Henry IV
Battle of Agincourt
end of the Hundred Years’ War
beginning of Wars of the Roses
William Caxton
sets up his printing
press in London
Battle of Bosworth and death of Richard III; Henry VII becomes king
Columbus’s
discovery
of America
The reign of Henry VIII
Dissolution of the Monasteries
The reign of Edward VI
The reign of Queen Mary - Philip and Mary
The reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Gunpowder Plot
Authorised Version of the Bible
death of James I; Charles I becomes king
Beginning of the Civil War
The Royalist army is defeated at Marston Moor and in 1645 at Naseby
Execution of Charles I
Restoration of Charles II; The Royal Society is founded
The Plague of London
The Great Fire of London
Monmouth’s Rebellion is ended at the battle of Sedgemoor
The Glorious Revolution – beginning of the reign of William and Mary
London’s population 750,000
The reign of George I
The reign of George II
The reign of George III
Seven Years’ War
French Revolution
Execution of Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette
War with France
London’s population 960,000
Abolition of the Slave Trade
Waterloo
Reform Bill passed
Queen Victoria’s reign
The Penny Post
London’s population 2.3m
The Great Exhibition in Hyde Park
Crimean War
Invention of the telephone and in 1878; electric lighting
The first motor car
Jack the Ripper
London’s population 6.5m
Death of Queen Victoria
First World War
General strike
Edward VIII’s abdication
London’s population 8.2m
Festival of Britain
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Local Government Bill: in 1965 Marylebone becomes part of the City of Westminster
London’s population 7.3m
London’s population 8.2m
London 2012 Olympics
