Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding

Novelist & lawyer

Novelist & lawyer

1707-1754

1707-1754

"the celebrated novelist and dramatic writer, rented at this time a house in the Back-lane Twickenham"

Noted writer makes a short stay in Twickenham

Heny Fielding came to Twickenham in about 1747 just before his best known novel, Tom Jones, was published.

It seems that he would have liked to stay and settle in Twickenham but he moved away. However, his baby son William was probably born in Twickenham as he was baptised at St Mary’s Church Twickenham in 1748.