View source for Brett Volume 7: Chapter LIX - St. Leonards 1858

==={{Hw|No animus against Hastings}}===
{{Hw|Another matter in which Mr. Ross’s “no animus to St. Leonards” did not come out with clear proof was when, at a Council Meeting in 1853, Mr. Deudney suggested that the separately named clusters of houses between [[Warrior Square]] and [[Verulam Buildings]] should be known and numbered under one designation. He had, he said, seen the several owners, all of whom were willing to adopt the title of [[Eversfield Place]], the name which Mr. Tree had given to his nine or ten new houses. This Mr. Ross strongly opposed, and characterised any desire that Mr. Eversfield might have for his name to be associated with the property as lowering him in his (Mr. Ross’s) estimation at least fifty per cent. This, perhaps, would seem to be an indication of a personal rather than a general animus – a dislike to the gentleman who had given the site for the [[General Infirmary|Infirmary]], the site for the St. Mary Magdalen Church, and the Corporation the Eversfield Parade; but the said gentleman was a St. Leonards man, and the seconder of the same was a St. Leonards man. To an impartial observer, there would seem to be no valid objection to the name; and even Mr. Ross’s own party voted in sufficient number to carry the motion, as against the objector.}}