St James's Place is a street in the St James's district of London near Green Park .[1] John Strype describing it in 1720 as a "good Street ... which receiveth a fresh Air out of the Park; the Houses are well-built, and inhabited by Gentry ..."[2] [3] Henry Benjamin Wheatley wrote in 1870 that it was "one of the oddest built streets in London."[3]
A sign for St James's Place along St James's Street Spencer House , which was commissioned by the 1st Earl Spencer in 1756, stands at number 27 and is now listed as Grade I .[4] [5] [6]
No. 4 St James's Place, from where Frédéric Chopin left for the Guildhall on 16 November 1848 for his last public performance Joseph Addison (1672–1719), author and politician who founded The Spectator [3] Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), English writer and politician.[3] Sir Francis Burdett (1770–1844), reforming politician known as "Old Glory", lived at number 25 from 1820 to 1844.[7] Sir Francis Chichester (1901–1972), pioneer aviator, sailor and author, lived at number 9 from 1944 to 1972.[8] Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (1849–1895), British statesman, lived at number 29 from April 1880 to late 1882.[9] James Craggs the Younger (1686–1721), English politician.[3] Mary Delany (1700–1788), English artist and writer.[3] Captain Basil Hall (1788–1844), Scottish traveller and author, lived at number 4.[3] Cornelius Hatfield, Jr. (1755–1823), American Revolutionary War Loyalist partisan captain from Elizabeth, New Jersey.[10] John Hick (1815–1894), English industrialist, art collector and Conservative Party politician, lived at number 4.[11] [12] Henry Grattan (1746–1820), Irish politician.[3] White Kennett (1660–1728), Bishop of Peterborough.[3] John Lubbock (1803–1865), English banker and scientist.[3] Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818–1887), British statesman, lived at number 30.[ citation needed ] Richard Rigby (1722–1788), English civil servant and politician.[3] Samuel Rogers (1763–1855), 19th-century English poet.[13] Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, rented rooms at 10–11 for five months in 1893–1894.[ citation needed ] John Wilkes (1725–1797), English journalist and politician, lived there in 1756.[3]
Stow, John. "Southwark, and Parts Adjacent" , A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark and Parts Adjacent , p. 663.
Also see "St James's Park," The Parish of St. James Westminster . Part II: north of Piccadilly, Volumes 31–32 of Survey volumes, Athlone Press, University of London, 1963, p. 511ff. Ed Glinert (2004), "St. James's Place", The London Compendium , Penguin UK, ISBN 9780141012131 Royal Blue Book, Fashionable Directory and Parliamentary Guide . B. W. Gardiner, Princes Street, Cavendish Square. 1873. p. 744.
Richard Ellis Roberts (1910), "St. James's Place", Samuel Rogers and his circle , Dutton, p. 48
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