Putney, a London suburb on the Surrey side, 6 m. from Waterloo, has a bridge across the Thames 300 yards long; the parish church tower dates from the 15th century. The river here affords favourite rowing water, the starting-place of the inter-universities boat-race; Putney Heath was a favourite duelling resort; Gibbon was a native; Pitt and Leigh Hunt died here.
Population (circa 1900) given as 18,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Puteaux * Puy, LeLinks here from Chalmers
Brooke, Sir Robert
Cole, William [1626–1662]
Cromwell, Oliver
Cromwell, Thomas
Davenant, William
Fiddes, Richard
Gibbon, Edward
Law, William
Mounteney, Richard
Pitt, William [No. 3]
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