Note 31 — BATTY’S HIPPODROME AND SOYER’S SYMPOSIUM, KENSINGTON

Soyer had superintended gratuitously various soup-kitchens for the poor of London, and established model kitchens at Scutari and in the Crimea during the war of 1855. G. A. Sala says of him: ‘He was a vain man, but he was good and kind and charitable.’