"houses were built on the west side. Initially, the street was occupied by military officers and their wives, along with politicians: William Pitt the Younger wrote letters from the street when it was called Savile Street; Irish-born playwright and MP, Richard Brinsley Sheridan lived at 14 Savile Row in 1813-16, till his death. Jules Verne had Phileas Fogg, his lead character in ""Around the World in Eighty Days"", live at 7 Savile Row – a ""fashionable address"" and ""the former home of Sheridan"". It may have been the affluent and influential nature of the residents of Savile Row that first"
"Savile Row Savile Row (pronounced ) is a street in Mayfair, central London. Known principally for its traditional bespoke tailoring for men, the street has had a varied history that has included accommodating the headquarters of the Royal Geographical Society at 1 Savile Row, where significant British explorations to Africa and the South Pole were planned; and more recently, the Apple office of the Beatles at 3 Savile Row, where the band's final live performance was held on the roof of the building. Originally named Savile Street, it was built between 1731 and 1735 as part of the development of"
"figured as Lord Fanny, Sporus, Adonis and Narcissus, lived in the street until he sold his house in 1730. James Wolfe, later General Wolfe, lived in the street as a junior officer in 1743 and 1744. Mark Akenside, physician and poet and author of ""The Pleasures of the Imagination"" lived in the street from 1762 until his death in 1770. During the corn riots of 1815, a mob attacked number 15, the home of Dr. Frederick (Prosperity) Robinson, tore up the railings outside and battered down the front door. Soldiers inside fired on the crowd and killed a midshipman named"
"Savile Row. Richard James's arrival is noticed by Nick Sullivan in British ""Esquire"" magazine: ""There is an odd atmosphere these days in Savile Row. Nothing tangible, you understand. But from time to time, people stop to peer with uncertainty, with incomprehension, even with vague horror through the plate glass window of No. 37a. There's a new boy on The Row and he's causing quite a stir."" 1995 The Sunday Telegraph reveals that Queen Elizabeth II's cousin David Linley is measured for his Richard James suits astride his motorcycle. Richard James moves to new, 2,000 square feet premises at 31 Savile"
"for townhouses. The ""Daily Post"" reported on 12 March 1733 that new buildings were about to be built on Savile Street in Mayfair, London. The Burlington Estate project was named after Lady Dorothy Boyle's maiden name, Savile. Savile Row was built by 1735 on freehold land known as Ten Acres belonging to a merchant tailor, William Maddox, By the late 18th century, it was a center for high-quality tailor shops. Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington and Countess of Cork (née Savile; 13 September 1699 – 21 September 1758) was a British noble and court official,"
"lived in Church Lane, Richard Steele and Tobias Smollett in Monmouth House. Carlyle lived for 47 years at No. 5 (now 24) Cheyne Row. After his death, the house was bought and turned into a shrine and literary museum by the Carlyle Memorial Trust, a group formed by Leslie Stephen, father of Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf set her 1919 novel ""Night and Day"" in Chelsea, where Mrs. Hilbery has a Cheyne Walk home. In a book, ""Bohemia in London"" by Arthur Ransome which is a partly fictional account of his early years in London, published in 1907 when he was"
"Marylebone Lane. Charles Dickens lived at number 18 with his indebted father (on whom the character Wilkins Micawber was based) while working as a court reporter in the 1830s, and Edward Gibbon wrote much of ""The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"" while living at number 7 from the early 1770s. James Smithson wrote the will that led to the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution while living at number 9 in 1826, while number 10 was briefly graced by Chopin in 1848, who found his apartment too expensive and moved to Mayfair. More recently, Cambridge spies Anthony Blunt and"
"the Burlington Estate. It was designed under the influence of Burlington's interpretation of Palladian architecture, known as ""Burlingtonian"". Henry Flitcroft, under the supervision of Daniel Garrett, appears to have been the main architect – though 1 and 22–23 Savile Row were designed by William Kent. Initially, the street was occupied mainly by military officers and their wives; later William Pitt the Younger and Irish-born playwright and MP, Richard Brinsley Sheridan were residents. Tailors started doing business in the area in the late 18th century; first in Cork Street, about 1790, then by 1803 in Savile Row itself. In 1846, Henry"
"Savile Row tailoring Savile Row tailoring is traditional and modern, men and women's bespoke tailoring that takes place on Savile Row and neighbouring streets in Mayfair, Central London. In 1846, Henry Poole, credited as being the ""Founder of Savile Row"", opened an entrance to his tailoring premises into No. 32 Savile Row. The term ""bespoke"" is understood to have originated in Savile Row when cloth for a suit was said to ""be spoken for"" by individual customers. The short street has been termed the ""golden mile of tailoring"", where customers have included Charles, Prince of Wales, Jude Law, Winston Churchill,"
"complications from AIDS. In 2018 ""House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row"" a biography of Nutter, with reminiscences by his brother David, a New York celebrity photographer, was published; it was written by Lance Richardson. Tommy Nutter Tommy Nutter (17 April 1943 – 17 August 1992), was a British tailor, famous for reinventing the Savile Row suit in the 1960s. Born in Barmouth, Merioneth to Christopher Nutter and Dorothy (formerly Banister), he was raised in Edgware, Middlesex, where his father owned a local High Street Cafe. After the family moved to Kilburn, Nutter and his brother David attended"
"are by Charles Buckeridge. The Sanskrit scholar, Max Müller lived at No. 7 from 1848 until his death in 1900. When he was Regius Professor of Medicine (1905-1919), Sir William Osler lived at No. 13 with his wife, Grace, who remained there until her death in 1928. Osler and his friends nicknamed the house ""The Open Arms"" as the Oslers were very sociable, particularly to Canadians and Americans visiting Oxford, Osler having been born in Canada and having worked in both Canada and the US before moving to Oxford. The children's fantasy novel ""The House in Norham Gardens"" (set in"
"depicting her accompanied by a quotation ""London itself perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play & a story & a poem"" from her 1926 diary. Busts of Virginia Woolf have been erected at her home in Rodmell, Sussex and at Tavistock Square, London where she lived between 1924 and 1939. Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was a British writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington,"
"at 3 Savile Row, concerned that chain stores entering the street would drive up rents, and took part in, what was then, a successful protest in 2012. However, A&F were allowed to move in and set up a children's store in 2013. A&F again attracted criticism in January 2015 for its store's colour scheme: brown. The original architectural plan for Savile Row is believed to have been drawn up by Colen Campbell, with Henry Flitcroft as the main architect of the street, under the supervision of Daniel Garrett; though 1 and 22–23 Savile Row were designed by William Kent, who"
"7 Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London, on 5 April 1837. He was the eldest of six children born to Captain (later Admiral) Charles Henry Swinburne (1797–1877) and Lady Jane Henrietta, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, a wealthy Northumbrian family. He grew up at East Dene in Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight. As a child, Swinburne was ""nervous"" and ""frail,"" but ""was also fired with nervous energy and fearlessness to the point of being reckless."" Swinburne attended Eton College (1849–53), where he started writing poetry. At Eton, he won first prizes in French and Italian. He attended Balliol"
"Row tailors, in particular Anthony Sinclair of nearby Conduit Street. Tailors, attracted by the affluent and influential nature of the residents of Savile Row, started to open businesses in the area in the late 18th century, first in Cork Street, about 1790, then by 1803 in Savile Row itself. None of those original tailors survive today, though Henry Poole & Co, who through Edward VII's patronage, helped make the street fashionable, still have a presence in Savile Row. Poole moved the company into 32 Savile Row in 1846, following the death of his father James Poole, and the company is"
"such as the Secret Seven and Famous Five stories. A blue historical plaque can be found on the external wall of her former home on Shortlands Road, Bromley. Other famous people who lived in Bromley include David Bowie, Charles Darwin, Peter Howitt, Richmal Crompton, Pixie Lott, Matt Terry, Christopher Tennant, Peter Frampton, Aleister Crowley, Siouxsie Sioux, Gary Rhodes, Pete Sears, Poly Styrene, singer Billy Idol, Trevor Goddard, actor Billy Jenkins, Alex Clare, cricketer Jill Cruwys, the anarchist Peter Kropotkin, the former Clash drummer Topper Headon, illustrator Charles Keeping, Formula 1 test driver Gary Paffett, children's writer Andrew Murray, tenor Roland"
"Broadwick Street, at the junction with Carnaby Street. In fiction, Robert Louis Stevenson had Dr. Henry Jekyll set up a home for Edward Hyde in Soho in his novel, ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"". Charles Dickens referred to Soho in several of his works; in ""A Tale of Two Cities"", Lucie Manette and her father Dr. Alexandre Manette live on Soho Square, while Golden Square is mentioned in ""Nicholas Nickelby"", in which Ralph Nickelby has a house on the square, and the George II statue in the centre is described as ""mournful"". Joseph Conrad used Soho as"
"Harrison Ainsworth lived at number 5 from 1853–1867; during his time living at 5 Arundel Terrace, he wrote the novels ""The Star Chamber"", ""The Flitch of Bacon"", ""The Spendthrift"", ""The Life and Adventures of Mervyn Clitheroe"", and ""Ovingdean Grange"". 5 Arundel Terrace has a blue plaque outside, in commemoration of Ainsworth. West End theatre star Douglas Byng lived at Number 6 from the 1960s until his death in 1987; his ashes were scattered outside the buildings. Number 11 is listed as being put up for sale as an eleven bedroom private house in 1844, and number 7 was the home"
"lived in his house ""unmolested until his death."" Captain Ruggles (#175), before leaving the neighborhood, had sold his estate in 1774 to Thomas Fayerweather. Tory Row Tory Row is the nickname historically given by some to the part of Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts where many Loyalists had mansions at the time of the American Revolutionary War, and given by others to seven Colonial mansions along Brattle Street. Its historic buildings from the 18th century include the William Brattle House (42 Brattle Street) and the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site (105 Brattle Street). Samuel Atkins Eliot, writing in 1913"
"with bolder fabrics,"" and set out to attract celebrity clients, sell their clothing via supermarket chains, and attract wider national and international custom, raising the profile of their new tailoring style. <br> Savile Row Savile Row (pronounced ) is a street in Mayfair, central London. Known principally for its traditional bespoke tailoring for men, the street has had a varied history that has included accommodating the headquarters of the Royal Geographical Society at 1 Savile Row, where significant British explorations to Africa and the South Pole were planned; and more recently, the Apple office of the Beatles at 3 Savile"
"a hub of cultural activities in New York. Figures like Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden and Carson McCullers were live-in guests. A study of 7 Middagh Street, entitled ""February House"", was published in 2005. He died of a heart attack in Berlin, where he had been helping his wife, singer Lotte Lenya, make recordings. A literary satire of George Davis was written by Truman Capote in the form of the character ""Boaty"" in his unfinished work """". George Davis (editor) George Davis (February 4, 1906—November 25, 1957) was an American fiction editor and novelist. The youngest of five boys (the"
"at 10 Compayne Gardens, London NW6, that was rented, in turn, by the poet Jon Silkin from Rudolf Nassauer (a wine merchant, poet, and novelist) and his wife, Bernice Rubens, who was later winner of the 1970 Booker Prize. The historical novelist Malcolm Macdonald, then a student at the Slade, was another of Silkin's tenants at that time. There Mercer wrote a more political novel whose acerbic Northern hero, Congo Booth, was an early prototype of many disaffected-marxist heroes in his television work. Neither novel was ever published. All three – Silkin, Mercer, and Macdonald – earned a living teaching"
"then at 28 Victoria Street until his death in 1983. Author Francis King lived at 17 Montpelier Villas, close to the 5 Powis Grove home of former MP Thomas Skeffington-Lodge. He look legal action after noticing an ""unflattering"" resemblance to himself in King's 1970 novel ""A Domestic Animal""; King had to sell his house to pay the legal costs after losing the case. Journalist and television personality Gilbert Harding—""the most-watched man on British television"" during the 1950s—lived at 20 Montpelier Villas until his death in 1960. Bandleader Ray Noble's birthplace, 1 Montpelier Terrace, has a blue plaque commemorating his time"
"designers Richard James, Ozwald Boateng, and Timothy Everest. The term ""bespoke"" as applied to fine tailoring is understood to have originated in Savile Row, and came to mean a suit cut and made by hand. Savile Row runs parallel to Regent Street between Conduit Street at the northern end and Vigo Street at the southern. Linking roads include New Burlington Place, New Burlington Street, Boyle Street, and Clifford Street. The freehold is owned by the Pollen Estate, who work in partnership with Westminster City Council to protect the street's tailoring heritage under the Savile Row SPA (Special Policy Area). As"
"John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken was born in Chester Street. Chester Street Chester Street is a street in central London's Belgravia district. It runs south-west to north-east from Upper Belgrave Street to Grosvenor Place. The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne was born at no 7 in 1837, the eldest of six children of Captain (later Admiral) Charles Henry Swinburne (1797–1877) and Lady Jane Henrietta, daughter of the George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham. The politician Alexander Perceval died at no 28 in 1859. The businessman and banker George Macaulay Booth was living in the same house in 1936. The artist Frederick"
"on the Four Georges"", ""The Virginians"", and some of ""The Adventures of Philip"" and ""The Roundabout Papers"". Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy (1805–1865), commander of HMS Beagle, on board which the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) also sailed, lived at 38 Onslow Square. Fitzroy lived at No 38 from 1854 to 1865, when he committed suicide, through guilt for his part in casting doubt about the truth of the Bible. Herbert Edward Ryle DD KCVO (1856–1925), later an Old Testament scholar and the Dean of Westminster, was born in the square on 25 May 1856. Edmund Fisher (1872–1918), British architect, was born in"
"are shops in the centre of the estate including a convenience store and dentists. Construction of a new garden village is due to start at the northern side of Yate in Summer 2018. J.K. Rowling, author of the ""Harry Potter"" fantasy series, was born in 1965 at the Chipping Sodbury Maternity Hospital (later the Chipping Sodbury Memorial Day Centre), on Station Road, Yate. Until the age of four, she lived with her parents in Sundridge Park, Yate. Yate was awarded the tongue-in-cheek honour of being the 45th worst place to live in the UK, according to the ""Idler Book of"
"of the Royal Navy Sir Peircy Brett (1709-1781), CSgt Frank Bourne of Rorke's Drift (who lived at 16 King's Hall Road, Beckenham and is buried in Beckenham Cemetery), eminent judge Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene (1883-1952 - born at 8 Fox Grove Road) and Fr. Thomas Pelham Dale SSC, an Anglo-Catholic clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s. Writers include Enid Blyton, Walter de la Mare who lived in Mackenzie Road, and A.L. Barker (1918–2002). Show business people include Bob Monkhouse (1928–2003), Julie Andrews (1935- ), David Bowie (1947-2016 - who lived at 42 Southend Road from 1969–1973), Peter"
"and upwardly-mobile professionals, or ""strivers"", who gave the district its colloquial name. Between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, is 139th Street, known among Harlemites as 'strivers' row.' It is the most aristocratic street in Harlem. Stanford White designed the houses for a wealthy white clientele. Moneyed African-Americans now own and inhabit them. When one lives on 'strivers' row' one has supposedly arrived. Harry Rills resides there, as do a number of the leading Babbitts and professional folk of Harlem. By the 1940s, many of the houses had decayed and were converted to single room occupancies (SROs). Much of the original decorative"
"attracted dealers in luxury goods to the area. Tailors started to take premises around Savile Row in the late 18th century, first in Cork Street, about 1790, then by 1803 in Savile Row itself. In 1846, Henry Poole, credited as creator of the dinner jacket or tuxedo, opened an entrance at 37 Savile Row from his late father's tailoring premises at 4 Old Burlington Street. As tailoring moved into the street, the house frontages were altered to bring natural light into the tailors' working area with the addition of glass frontages and light wells. The houses have been much altered"
"Earls Terrace Earls Terrace is a street in Kensington, London, W8. It has houses on one side only, a terrace of 23 Georgian houses, all of which are Grade II listed. The street overlooks Kensington High Street, with a grass and garden in front, and backs onto Edwardes Square. The entire terrace of 23 houses was redeveloped by Northacre, adding underground garages, and in 2001 sold for a total of £95 million. The communal garden is in size, and is not open to the public. The pop singer Madonna once rented there, and children's author J. K. Rowling had a"
"Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was a British writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child in a blended family of eight. Her mother, Julia Prinsep Jackson, celebrated as a Pre-Raphaelite artist's model, had three children from her first marriage; her father, Leslie Stephen, a notable man of letters, had one previous daughter; their marriage produced another four children, including the modernist"
"in 1927, the club moved to its present home at 69 Brook Street, part of the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair. This was the former home of ""Loulou"" Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, a Liberal Party cabinet minister. The building, a combination of Nos 69 and 71 Brook Street, owes its extravagant dix-huitième interior to Walter Burns, the brother-in-law of financier J. P. Morgan, who adapted it for his wife Fanny to entertain in suitable style. It thus includes an elegant hall, a grand staircase and a lavish ballroom. Savile Club members are known as Savilians and the Club's motto of ""Sodalitas"