Early_years_and_Berners_Street_hoax Samuel_Beazley
the duchesse d angoulême
as youth, beazley volunteered service in peninsular war, in spain, , experienced many adventures, fond of relating in later life friends. among these, according account, being found unconscious , taken dead, waking find himself laid out burial. part in daring escape spain of duchesse d angoulême, daughter of louis xvi, fleeing napoleon s forces in 1815. account of escape published daughter after death.
in 1810, beazley made bet friend, theodore hook, on whether hook transform house in london talked-about address in week. became known berners street hoax, in hook sent out thousands of letters in name of resident @ 54 berners street, requesting deliveries, visitors , assistance. hundreds of persons – including tradesmen, doctors, lawyers, priests, governor of bank of england, duke of york, archbishop of canterbury, , lord mayor of city of london – arrived @ address on 27 november.
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