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The village of Twyford in Berkshire, the country home of the 19th and 20th century British conservative politician James Farquharson Remnant, 1st Baron Remnant. Remnant had a long association with Holborn, having served as its MP for 28 years and representing the area on London County Council. Born in Southwold in Suffolk, he was educated at Harrow School and Magdalen College before becoming a barrister at nearby Lincoln’s Inn. In 1900, having by now married and had two children, he was elected to the House of Commons. While he never held ministerial office, he did sit on many committees, including the Royal Commission of Canals and Inland Navigation between 1906 – 1910 and the Home Office Committee on Conditions and Pay of Police in 1919. He was created a Baronet of Wenhaston in Suffolk in 1917 and following his retirement from the House of Commons in 1928, Baron Remnant of Wenhaston in Suffolk. On John Rocque’s 1746 street map of London this is an old narrow alley called Stonecutters Alley. In 1896 it appears on an Ordnance Survey map as Twyford Buildings, and by 1952, it had been so-named.
