Great Cumberland Place

Great Cumberland Place is a historic street in the City of Westminster, part of greater London, England.

Benches on Great Cumberland Place.

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

Statue of Wallenberg

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

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  1. ↑ Google Map
  2. ↑ State papers and publick documents of the United States, Volume 1 (Boston: Thomas B. Wait, 1819), p. 402
  3. ↑ Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham, London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions (Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 483
  4. ↑ Thomas Smith, A Topographical and Historical Account of the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bone (1833), p. 223
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