Chelsea

chel'se, formerly a suburb, now a district of London, having somewhat less than 100,000 people. It is situated on the north bank of the Thames and forms the river frontage of the Hyde Park district. Chelsea Hospital for old soldiers and the Sloan Botanic Garden are of interest. The latter is famed for fine old cedars. To Americans the chief interest of the neighborhood is its literary associations. Swift, Steele, Leigh Hunt, and George Eliot lived here. Locke and Addison lived hard by. Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle, lived in a quiet street. A statue of Carlyle has been erected on the Chelsea Embankment. He was known as the "Sage of Chelsea." Chelsea was a favorite haunt of Henry VIII and his sixth queen, Catharine Parr.