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Captain Gray's Houses: A History of Sion Row, Twickenham stocked Short essays on related topicsTwickenham is known today as the home of rugby, but its heyday could be said to be in the eighteenth century, when first Pope and then Horace Walpole made it their home there. Captain Gray, a naval officer, acquired plots of land close to the river in Twickenham in 1718 on which he built two rows of houses, Sion Row and Montpelier Row, which survive to this day and are much admired. This book tells the story of Sion Row, built for Gray by Edward