Chiswick (gbr)

Chiswick

Chiswick ranks 948th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Chengdu, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and Maceió. Memorable people born in Chiswick include Ian Gillan, Peter Brook, and Pete Townshend. Memorable people who died in Chiswick include George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Cyril Cusack, and George Canning. Chiswick has been the birth place of many musicians, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and biologists. Chiswick is located in United Kingdom.

Chiswick is a district in West London, split between the London Boroughs of Hounslow and Ealing. It contains Hogarth's House, the former residence of the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth, Chiswick House, a neo-Palladian villa regarded as one of the finest in England and Fuller's Brewery, London's largest and oldest brewery. In a meander of the River Thames used for competitive and recreational rowing, with several rowing clubs on the river bank, the finishing post for the Boat Race is just downstream of Chiswick Bridge. Read more on Wikipedia