Eaton Place
Eaton Place is a street in London's Belgravia district.
It runs off the top left-hand corner of Eaton Square and then parallel to the same until a junction with Upper Belgrave Street.
Notable events, establishments and inhabitants
[edit]- The 19th-century sugar-manufacture expert Shute Barrington Moody, who was the brother of the founder of British Columbia, Major-General Richard Clement Moody, resided at Burton Street (which is now South Eaton Place).[1][2]
- John Towneley, MP for Beverley and later a family trustee at the British Museum, lived at No. 76 in 1860.[3][4]
- The Embassy of Hungary, London, is at No. 35.
- After Great Britain's recognition of the communist regime in Poland as the legitimate Polish government, the antecedent Polish government-in-exile relocated from the Polish embassy to No. 43, which had been the president's personal residence, where it stayed until 1990.[5][6]
- The 1971 TV-series Upstairs, Downstairs is supposed to be set at a fictional No. 165 Eaton Place. It used number 65 and painted a "1" in front of the house's number for filming.
- On 22 June 1922, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, was assassinated outside his home at No. 36 by Irish Republican Army members Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan.[7]
- The actress Joan Collins resides in Eaton Place.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Grace's Guide To British Industrial History: Shute Barrington Moody".
- ↑ Newton, W. (1844). Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences. p. 293.
- ↑ Edward Walford (1860), The County Families of the United Kingdom... (2nd ed.), London: Robert Hardwicke, p. 640
- ↑ Trustees of the Museum (10 December 1898). Statutes and Rules for the British Museum. London: Woodfall and Kinder. p. 31).
- ↑ Kaczorowski, Ryszard; Szczepanik, Edward (22 December 1990). "Decree of the President of the Republic of Poland about ceasing operation and disbandment of the Polish Government-in-exile" (PDF). Internet System of Legal Acts (ISAP) – Legal acts and other documents of the Polish Government-in-exile. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
- ↑ D. Hałas (2010-08-06), 43 Eaton Place, Seat of the Polish Government-in-Exile, retrieved 2023-11-14
- ↑ "Today in Irish History, 22 June 1922 – The assassination of Henry Wilson". theirishstory.com. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
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