Show Down luff street downing street london perpetuates lans name of a clever man cousette chu sette were the days before the fourth of july bad any significance in american annals and george down ing the first scholar to the first public school in massachusetts and the farst graduate sent out by harvard college came to england and became chaplain in army I 1 by a remarkable stroke of fortune he was sent to represent england at the nagao when europe was trem blang before oliver and during three distinct eras in glands En history he held the office of british at the dutch court he was as popular or as clever under the merry monarch aa under the protector and the commonwealth and it came to pass in the reign of charles II 11 that the man from massachusetts was granted a great tract of land at westminster where he built huge mansions and laid out downing street to this day downings street Is downing street still and though george downing is forgotten there Is no name in the empire which Is more familiar to us than his st james gazette |