St. James's Place
St James's Place No. 4; From there, Frédéric Chopin left for his last public concert on November 16, 1848.
St. James's Place is a street in the London borough of St. James’s near Green Park .
Spencer House is one of the many listed buildings .
Known residents
- Joseph Addison (1672–1719), author and politician, founder of The Spectator , lived there in 1710.
- Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), writer and politician
- Sir Francis Burdett (1770–1844), politician lived at number 25 from 1820 to 1844.
- James Craggs the Younger (1686-1721)
- Mary Delany (1700-1788), painter
- Henry Grattan (1746–1820), Irish politician
- White Kennett (1660-1728)
- John Lubbock (1834-1913), English anthropologist
- Richard Rigby (1722–1788)
- Samuel Rogers (1763–1855)
- John Wilkes (1727–1797), lived there in 1756.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Henry Benjamin Wheatley: Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall . Smith, Elder & co., 1870, pp. 167-169.
- ^ "Burdett, Sir Francis" , The History of Parliament, accessed April 24, 2012.
- ^ Richard Ellis Roberts: St. James's Place . In: Samuel Rogers and his circle . Dutton, 1910, p. 48.
Web links
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 19.7 " N , 0 ° 8 ′ 25.2" W.