CHISWICK  , an

urban district in the Ealing parliamentary division of Middlesex, England, suburban to London, on the Thames, 72 m . W. by S. of St Paul's cathedral . Pop . (r9or) 29,809 . The locality is largely residential, but there are breweries, and the marine engineering works of Messrs Thornycroft on the river . Chiswick House, a seat of the duke of Devonshire, is surrounded by beautiful grounds; here died Fox (18o6) and Canning (1'827) . The gardens near belonged till 1903 to the Royal Horticultural Society . The church of St Nicholas has ancient portions, and in the churchyard is the tomb of William Hogarth the painter, with commemorative lines by David Garrick . Hogarth's house is close at hand . Chiswick Hall, no longer extant, was formerly a country seat for the masters and sanatorium for the scholars of Westminster school . Here in 1811 the Chiswick Press was founded by Charles Whittingham the elder, an eminent printer (d . 184o) .