Sir Isaac Wake (1580/81 – 1632 ) was an English diplomat and political commentator. He served as ambassador to Savoy for sixteen years, and later as ambassador to France. His brother Lionel Wake was a merchant in Antwerp.
41-753: Belsize could refer to: Belsize Park – also known as 'Belsize' – a neighbourhood in London, the United Kingdom Belsize (ward) , a ward named after Belsize Park, London Belsize Lane , a street in Belsize Park Belsize Park Gardens , a street in Belsize Park Belsize House , historic house Belsize Road , a street in South Hampstead, London Belsize, Hertfordshire ,
82-622: A primary school near the Royal Free Hospital was heavily bombed. When the area was rebuilt, the opportunity was taken to widen the pavement and build further back from the road. The lyrics of the international chart hit " Kayleigh " by rock band Marillion in 1985 include the line "loving on the floor in Belsize Park ". It is also in the short film Les Bicyclettes de Belsize (although mainly filmed in Hampstead Village ), of which
123-533: A book-binding held at Toronto. The crest is a knot "commonly called Wake's Knot ". Isaac Wake had a cousin, Lionel (or Leonard) Wake, who was an English merchant in Antwerp . He also maintained correspondence with Sir Dudley Carleton in 1617-18 and 1624. He was a close friend of the diplomat William Trumbull the elder (died 1635). Lionel Wake converted to Catholicism in Antwerp and lived there for much of his life. He
164-591: A funeral oration on John Rainolds . In 1609, Wake travelled in France and Italy, and soon afterwards became secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton at Venice . In March 1612, his leave of absence from Merton College was extended for three years; but in the following November he came to England for a few months, during which he pronounced a funeral oration on Sir Thomas Bodley . He returned to Venice in March 1613, and stayed there, and afterwards at Turin , as Carleton's secretary until
205-588: A hamlet in Hertfordshire Belsize architects , a firm of architects based in Belsize Park, London Belsize Motors , a former automobile-manufacturing firm based in Manchester Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Belsize . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
246-457: A substantial property built on the west side of the main London to Hampstead road. Inherited by his daughter and her husband, Charles West (1626–1687) , the fifth Baron de la Warr , by 1714 it had passed through various hands into the ownership of William Paget , the 6th Baron Paget , who had a substantial formal garden constructed. The name Belsize Park comes from the 17th-century manor house and parkland (built by Daniel O'Neill for his wife,
287-614: Is also the place of residence for the Jewish community targeted by Hitler during the Second World War in the novel The Morning Gift . Novelist Peter Straub entitled his 1983 poetry collection "Leeson Square and Belsize Park" in part after his time in residence in the Belsize Park region of London. Belsize Park and the surrounding quarters were the setting for a long-running radio drama, Waggoner's Walk . This daily serial ran from April 1969 to May 1980 each weekday on Radio 2 . Belsize Park
328-469: Is derived from French bel assis meaning 'well situated'. The area has many thoroughfares bearing its name: Belsize Avenue , Belsize Court, Belsize Crescent, Belsize Gardens, Belsize Grove, Belsize Lane , Belsize Mews , Belsize Park (the road), Belsize Park Gardens , Belsize Place, Belsize Square, and Belsize Terrace. The Manor of Belsize dates back to 1317, when as a subdivision to the Manor of Hampstead it
369-578: Is mentioned in the Hitchcock thriller, Dial M for Murder (1954) by the lead character Tony Wallace played by Ray Milland when coercing his accomplice, C.A. Swann into murdering his wife. There are records of a Belsize Park Rugby Club in North-West London since the 1860s. In 1871, Belsize was one of the clubs at the inaugural meeting of the Rugby Football Union , and therefore pioneers of
410-525: The Countess of Chesterfield ) which once stood on the site. Rebuilt in 1663, it was sublet by 1721, when the parklands opened as pleasure gardens for those looking to escape the dirt and grime of the City of London, with concerts, singing, dancing and country sports such as fishing and racing. In 1722 magistrates were instructed to act to stop riotous behaviour, although the parkland remained open until 1745. Belsize House
451-608: The Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1842 allowed all church lands to be let on long term construction leases, which unlocked the accelerated urban development of Belsize Park. The opening in 1851 of Hampstead Road railway station on the L&;BR prompted William Lund in 1852 to agree a 99-year construction sublease on the former Forsyth estate. He proposed developments to the west of Haverstock Hill, although his plans were curtailed by construction issues associated with building over both
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#1732858352596492-459: The Pond Street sewer and the L&BR tunnel. In 1852 Charles James Palmer, a Bloomsbury -based solicitor bought the lease of Belsize House. In 1853 he proposed demolition of the main house, with Daniel Tiley taking the lead role in constructing Belsize Square and associated properties. Palmer commissioned architect James Piers St Aubyn to design St Peter's Church . In 1864 the church bought-back
533-503: The 1830s due to the proposal for the lines of the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) to be built through Belsize Park, but Eton College successfully argued via parliamentary lobbying for the railway to be tunnelled underground via Primrose Hill , which was then designed and engineered by Robert Stephenson . All the 38 houses on the Newman's House lands had been built by 1830. The passing of
574-479: The 1860s housing rush. Woodd endeavored to keep the ever-encroaching tide of housing from coming too close to Rosslyn House, permitting development only on the fringes of the formal garden, such as the housing by the local architect Horace Field on the south side of Wedderburn Road. It was only after Woodd's death in 1895, and the sale of the House to developers by his widow the following year, that development took place on
615-451: The L&BR form 1868 ( Swiss Cottage and Finchley Road). From 1873 William Willett - the father of William Willett the tireless promoter of British Summer Time , who helped his father from 1881 onwards - took over the church's leases after the bankruptcy of Daniel Tiley. Willett redeveloped much of the former Eton College estate with newer, smaller but still substantial properties inspired by Queen Anne style architecture . By 1900, most of
656-632: The Victoria era. South End Farm continued as a farmhouse, whilst although Rosslyn House was sold in 1816 to the undertenant, it remained in place with its formal gardens until the house was demolished between 1896 and 1909. In 1855 Henry Davidson exchanged his lease for life of the Rosslyn House lands for a 99-year building lease. Due to issues associated with construction over the L&BR tunnels, in 1859 he sold Rosslyn House and its extended formal gardens to Charles Henry Lardner Woodd. Woodd decided to sublease
697-657: The assistance of those states for the recovery of the palatinate . Towards the end of 1626 he was employed on a mission to Bern and Zurich on behalf of the Grisons ; and in 1627 he endeavoured to mediate, at the king of Denmark 's request, between that monarch and the Duke of Savoy. After narrowly escaping the plague which ravaged Piedmont in 1630, he was appointed ambassador to the French court, and had audience of Louis XIII in May 1631. Isaac Wake
738-729: The eldest, Anna Wake (1605-before 1669) married the Antwerp merchant and art-collector Peeter Stevens. The portraits of Peeter Stevens (1627) and Anna Wake (1628), by Anthony van Dyck , are in the Mauritshuis in The Hague , Netherlands. The second daughter was the wife of the Catholic translator Edward Sheldon . The fourth, Margaret (born 1617), is said to have entered the English Carmelite convent in Antwerp in 1633 and made her professions to Anne Worsley in 1634, becoming Mother Mary Margaret of
779-438: The estates formal houses - allowed the church to maximise its income, and hence to allow additional substantial houses to be built on the lands. This income allowed the church to have Belsize House rebuilt in 1812 for additional letting income. The wealthy leaseholders soon enabled themselves to purchase the freehold from the church, allowing the accelerated development of Belsize as a Victorian country urban suburb of London. One of
820-453: The game of Rugby Union . In 1878, Belsize moved to form Rosslyn Park RFC, becoming one of England's leading clubs. In 1971, Belsize Park RFC was re-established by a group of local players. The club is now one of the most central of all London Rugby Clubs, playing and training in Regent's Park. There are five regular teams playing every Saturday during the season as well as a touch rugby squad in
861-483: The house out for income, with its occupiers until 1893 including Sir Francis Freeling (1764 – 1836) who was Secretary of HM General Post Office , and General Sir Moore Disney . Davidson developed his part of the Rosslyn lands, undertaking a mixed development of large semi-detached properties similar to Belsize Park, slowed by a lack of labour through both the substantial development of the neighbouring Maryon Wilson land and
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#1732858352596902-660: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belsize&oldid=1214685270 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Belsize Park Belsize Park is a residential area of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden (the inner north-west of London ), England. The residential streets are lined with Georgian and Victorian villas and mews houses. Some nearby localities are Hampstead village to
943-506: The latter left for England in July 1615. Wake then became British representative at the court of Savoy , and retained that office for nearly sixteen years. In 1617 he went to Bern , at the request of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy , to mediate an alliance between Savoy and the Swiss states. At the end of 1618 he came to London, being "much courted" by the French ministers on his way through Paris, and
984-484: The lease on the undeveloped backlot of the Bliss lands. Tiley gained agreement from Palmer and Eton College to buy the construction lease from the church, and hence extend development south of Belsize Square to connect with the college's estate. Mimicking the then fashionable styles of Kensington and Bayswater, between 1851 and the late 1860s he built over 250 8-10 bedroom semi-detached stucco houses with large porticos, aimed at
1025-423: The middle classes. The church undertook a similar agreement in 1857, reacquiring full control over the portion of Todd's lease north of Belsize Lane in 1865, and again selling it to Tiley. With construction almost complete, fashion changed and Tiley went bankrupt in 1870. Of the original eight lands defined by the church in 1808, the three leased to Thomas Roberts remained substantially undeveloped throughout much of
1066-509: The new land owners George Todd redeveloped what was known as the White House in 1815 as a substantial Georgian stucco-villa with portico, and two lodges. Known as Belsize House, it was later sold to Matthew Forster (1786 – 1869) the Whig MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed as Belsize Lodge - it was demolished in 1937. Victorian development started along the main London to Hampstead road from 1815 through
1107-532: The north and west, Camden Town to the south-east and Primrose Hill to the south. There are restaurants, pubs, cafés, and independent boutiques in Belsize Village, and on Haverstock Hill and England's Lane. Hampstead Heath is close by, and Primrose Hill park is a five-minute walk from England's Lane. Belsize Park is in the Hampstead and Highgate constituency whose present MP is Tulip Siddiq . The name
1148-478: The north side of Wedderburn Road and elsewhere on the garden and site of the House. At 19-21 Lyndhurst Road (1898) the development incorporated the gatehouse of Rosslyn House, designed for Woodd by Teulon , the architect of St Stephen's Church, Rosslyn Hill . Developing housing resulted in the need for facilities, including the Metropolitan Railway from 1860 ( Hampstead Heath and Finchley Road ), and
1189-528: The residual country mansions and their gardens had been demolished, now to make way for smaller terraced houses. After World War I , the construction of blocks of flats began, and now a great many of the larger houses are also converted into flats. In World War II , a large underground air-raid shelter was built here and its entrance can still be seen near the tube station at Downside Crescent. The area on Haverstock Hill north of Belsize Park Underground station up to Hampstead Town Hall and including part of
1230-412: The song "Paradise" by Coldplay, where in the video, the elephant can be seen taking a train from the station. The Camden Town Group artist Robert Polhill Bevan and his wife Stanislawa de Karlowska lived at 14 Adamson Road from 1900 to 1925. Kirsty MacColl 's 2000 song "England 2 Colombia 0" features the line, "we went to a pub in Belsize Park and cheered on England as the skies grew dark..." It
1271-683: The summer time. Isaac Wake Isaac Wake was the second son of Arthur, son of John Wake of Hartwell , Northamptonshire, a descendant of the lords of Blisworth . His father, a canon of Christ Church and master of St. John's Hospital in Northampton , was rector of Great Billing in Northamptonshire until 1573, when he was deprived for nonconformity ; he afterwards lived for many years in Jersey . Born in 1580 or 1581, Isaac Wake entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1593, and graduated B.A. in 1597; he
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1312-550: The time of his death, representing herself as destitute. The arrears at any rate seem to have been paid ultimately, for in 1633 Lady Wake bought an annuity from her half-brother, Lord Conway, for £1,450. She is mentioned in company with her kinswoman Lady Vere in the Diary of Samuel Rogers. John Aubrey calls him "a very witty man", and describes a trick he played upon a preacher who was given to eavesdropping. An example of his armorial bearings shows Two bars in chief three torteaux , in
1353-460: The title song was covered by Mireille Mathieu , Engelbert Humperdinck , and others. Belsize Park is also referenced on Sleeper's 1995 debut album Smart in the song "Lady Love Your Countryside" with the lyrics "And we could spend our lives puking in Belsize Park". Cozy Powell 's 1974 single " Na Na Na " suggests that "You're a wizard of Wembley Central, You're the J. S. Bach of Belsize park". The Belsize Park London Underground station features in
1394-463: The works of Edward Bliss, a self-made man who had leased and then bought the southeastern-located Newman's House lands, on the west side of Haverstock Hill north of England's Lane. Bliss not only built properties to lease out, but also allowed construction subleases. In 1829 Eton College advertised villa-sized plots on Haverstock Hill. The college then started developing an axis road to Finchley Road, naming it after Queen Adelaide . Development halted in
1435-727: Was beaten by (Sir) Nathaniel Brent , the influence of the Abbots, combined perhaps with Wake's constant absence from England, proving too strong. Wake was in England again in December 1623, when he married Anna, daughter of Edmund Bray of Barrington , and stepdaughter to Sir Edward Conway , the secretary of state. He was returned M.P. for Oxford University in January 1624, and attended parliament closely until his departure in May as ambassador to Savoy and Venice, with special instructions to endeavour to gain
1476-589: Was elected fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 1598, and graduated M.A. in 1603. In 1604 he became a student at the Middle Temple , and on 14 December 1604 was elected public orator of Oxford University . He took part in the reception of King James in 1605, delivering an oration "at the Hall-stair's foot in Christ Church." The king seems to have thought his oratory polished, if soporific. In 1607, he delivered
1517-473: Was involved the painting trade, exporting works by Rubens and his circle into England. A letter to Trumbull from April 1618 mentions pictures for the Earl of Arundel , one large and fragile requiring a special case for transport. Wake was also involved in the dispatch of a suite of six pieces of old tapestry and a satin canopy for the Countess of Pembroke . He was the father of four sons and six daughters, of whom
1558-525: Was knighted on 9 April 1619 at Royston, Hertfordshire , where the king lay ill in bed. Immediately afterwards he was sent back to Turin with an offer of support to the duke in his candidature for the imperial crown, and at the same time with an informal mission to Frederick V, Elector Palatine , whom he saw at Heidelberg on his way out. On the death of Sir Henry Savile , in February 1622, Prince Charles tried to secure Wake's election as warden of Merton; but he
1599-521: Was left to the Roman Catholic monks of Westminster Abbey . The original manor consisted of a number of subdivided farms, which were rented out for income. Hence after the reformation, King Henry VIII returned the estate to the newly constituted Anglican Dean of Westminster Abbey. By 1600, including the manor house Belsize House there were at least three other properties on the estate, with diplomat and courtier Sir Isaac Wake (1581 – 1632) having
1640-412: Was rebuilt in 1746, after which additional large country houses had been built on the surrounding farmlands for wealthy lawyers and merchants. Between 1679 and 1714, the number of houses on the estate had increased from 8 to 14, and by 1808 there were still only 22 recorded. However, the formal division of the state in 1808 into eight separate lands - based on the structure of the underleases pertaining to
1681-479: Was spoken of as likely to succeed Viscount Dorchester as secretary of state when the latter died in February 1632; but before the appointment was made he died himself, from an attack of fever, at Paris in June 1632. His body was brought to England with the ceremony due to his rank, and buried in the chapel of Dover Castle . His widow petitioned the king for a pension, and for the payment of about £1,400 due to her husband at