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Lord John Russell; Lord Sydenham, 1841; 8, Archbishop
Markham, d. 1807; 14, Sir R. Westmacott, sculptor, d. 1856; 15, Baron
Bunsen, 1841; 72, Charles X., when in exile, and in 1816 the Duchesse
d'Angoulême; Louis XVIII., in 1814, also lived in this street; 74, the
Portuguese Embassy early in the eighteenth century; 77, Sir Matthew
Wood; here Queen Caroline resided in 1820. In the enlargement of the
street called Audley Square Spencer Perceval was born. North Row has
no interest. In Green Street lived Sydney Smith, d. 1845; Lord

Cochrane, d. 1814; 61 is Hampden House, residence of the Duke of
Abercorn. At the corner of Park Street stood St. Mary's Church, pulled
down in 1880.
In Norfolk Street lived Lord William Russell, murdered by his valet in
1840; at 27 the Earl of Dunraven, 1895. In Upper Brook Street lived
Lord George Gordon, b. 1750, and George Grenville; 3, Sir Lucas
Pepys and the Countess of Rothes; 18, Hon. Mrs. Damer, sculptor, d.
1828; 27, "Single Speech" Hamilton, d. 1796; 18, Sir William Farrer,
F.R.G.S.; 32, Marquis of Ormonde.
Upper Grosvenor Street contains Grosvenor House, the residence of the
Duke of Westminster, a handsome building standing in a courtyard,
with a garden at the back, skirting Park Lane as far as Mount Street. On
its purchase in 1761 by the Duke of Gloucester, brother of George III.,
it was known as Gloucester House. The present screen and metal gates
by Cundy were erected in 1842. The house contains a very fine
collection of pictures.
In this street lived: No. 2, Lord Erskine; 11, Mr. Francis Hale Rigby,
1817; 16, the first Sir Robert Peel; 18, Lord Crewe, 1809.
Among present inhabitants are:
The Dowager Duchess of Northumberland; Dowager Countesses of
Galloway and Wilton; Lord Templemore; Major-General Hon. H. F.
Eaton; Prince Alexis Dolgorouki; Sir E. Chandos Leigh.
Balfour Place has been lately rebuilt, and was so named in 1892 instead
of Portugal Street.
Mount Street (1740), called from the Fort of Oliver's Mount, was
rebuilt with ornamental red-brick houses; it contains the Vestry
Hall--now the Register Office for the district--built by Bolton in 1887,
at a cost of £15,200, on the site of the old workhouse, now removed to
the Fulham Road.
Inhabitants: Lady Mary Coke, 1810; Martin Van Butchell, d. 1810; Sir

Henry Holland, 1816; No. 102, Madame d'Arblay, 1832; 111, on the
site of an old manor-house, was in 1891 occupied by a college of Jesuit
priests; 2, Sir Charles Hall, Q.C., M.P., d. 1900; 49, Earl of Selborne;
54, Lord Windsor; 105, Winston Churchill, M.P.; 113, Right Hon.
Akers Douglas, M.P. In Carlos Place, so renamed in 1892 instead of
Charles Street (1727), lives: No. 1, Sir George Chetwynd, Bt., 1896. Its
prolongation, Duke Street, rebuilt in 1889 in red brick, dates from
about 1770, and was named probably after the Duke of Cumberland. In
that year a lying-in hospital stood in the street; opposite a small square
is the King's Weigh House Congregational Chapel, a large building
erected in 1891. Blocks of artisans' dwellings occupy the small streets
round about.
In Gilbert Street are St George's, Hanover Square, District Schools,
which replaced the old schools in South Molton Street. The building
was erected in 1888 by Caroe on a site given by the Duke of
Westminster, and cost £5,000. These schools were incorporated in 1818
with General Stewart's schools in South Street.
Davies Street is very narrow at its northern end, where it forms a
prolongation of South Molton Lane, an old street known in 1708 as
Shug Lane. It takes its name either from Miss Mary Davies, who is said
to have lived in an old house still standing at the corner of Bourdon
Street, or from Sir Thomas Davies, to whom Hugh Audley left his
property. Here is the new church of St Anselm, built in Byzantine style,
from designs by Balfour and Turner, at a cost of £20,000, and opened
in February, 1896, to replace Hanover Chapel, Regent Street. At No. 8
are the Westminster Public Baths and Washhouses.
In Bourdon Street is St. Mary's Church, a chapel of ease to St. George's,
built for £12,000 by the Duke of Westminster in 1881 to replace St.
Mary's Church in Park Street. The building, from designs by Blomfield,
is in medieval style. Adjoining is St. George's Workmen's Dwellings
Association.
In Grosvenor Street (1726) lived: Countess of Hertford, 1740; Lord
North, 1740; Sir Paul Methuen, 1740; Miss Vane, mistress of Frederick,
Prince of Wales; Lord Crewe, 1784; Marquis Cornwallis, 1793-98; No.

13, William Sotheby; William Huskisson; at 16 was formerly the Royal
Institution of British Architects; 17, Samuel Whitbread, 1800; 28, Sir
Humphry Davy, 1818; 48, Earl St. Vincent, d. 1823; 72, Dr. Matthew
Baillie, d. 1823; 6, Sir E. Ashmead Bartlett, M.P., d. 1902; 25, William