Great Cumberland Place
Great Cumberland Place is a historic street in the City of Westminster, part of greater London, England.
Description
The street runs from Oxford Street at Marble Arch to George Street at Bryanston Square.[1]
It contains the Western Marble Arch Synagogue, near which stands a statue of Raoul Wallenberg.
Notable residents
The street was the home of Thomas Pinckney while he was the United States ambassador to the Court of St James's.[2]
Sir James Mackintosh lived in Great Cumberland Street, which was later re-numbered as part of Great Cumberland Place.[3]
The residents listed in 1833 were: "Hans Busk, Esq. ; Sir Clifford Constable ; Sir Frederick Hamilton; Lady C. Underwood; Sir G. Ivison Tapps ; Baron Bulow (the Prussian Minister) ; General Sir R. M'Farlane ; Leonard Currie, Esq. ; Sir S. B. Fludyer, Bart. ; Lady Trollope ; Earl of Leitrim ; Sir Alexander Johnston ; and the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Norwich", and in Great Cumberland Street "Lord Saltoun; Mrs. Portman; John Wells, Esq. ; Colonel Sherwood ; Captain Richard Manby; John Lodge, Esq.; Major Murray; Robert Cutlar Fergusson, Esq. ; John N. McLeod, Esq. ; and Lord Bagot".[4]
References
- ^ Google Map
- ^ State papers and publick documents of the United States, Volume 1 (Boston: Thomas B. Wait, 1819), p. 402
- ^ Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham, London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions (Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 483
- ^ Thomas Smith, A Topographical and Historical Account of the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bone (1833), p. 223