Hyde Park Gate
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Coordinates: 51°30′1.3″N 0°10′57.8″W / 51.500361°N 0.182722°W
Hyde Park Gate is an address in central London, England, which applies to two parallel roads in Kensington on the southern boundary of Kensington Gardens. It is probably most famous for being the death place of Sir Winston Churchill. It is in a picturesque part of London and a very expensive place to live.
[edit] Famous residents
Number 9
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, founder of the scouting movement
Number 14
- Margaret Kennedy, novelist
Number 18
- Sir Jacob Epstein, Sculptor and painter
Number 17
- Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, first woman to run for US presidency
Number 22
- Vanessa Bell, painter
- Virginia Woolf, writer
- Sir Leslie Stephen, scholar and writer
Number 24
- Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, Politician and Chancellor of The Exchequer (1983-1989)
- Nigella Lawson, Food writer,journalist and broadcaster
Number 28
- Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister
Number 29
- Enid Bagnold, novelist and playwright
[edit] External links
- Hyde Park Gate and Kensington Gate at the Survey of London online
