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Edwardes Place
1-5 Edwardes Place is a grade II listed terrace of five houses set back from but facing Kensington High Street, with the road into Edwardes Square running alongside no.1, with the similar but longer Earl's Terrace on the other side. The terrace was laid out and built from 1810 to 1819. The entire terrace was acquired by Hugh Morton Shand (1815–1890), British army officer and businessman. Alexander Faulkner Shand (1858–1936), the writer and barrister, and patrilineal great-grandfather of Camilla, Queen Consort, lived at no. 1. The terrace was grade II listed in 1969. References {{Reflist Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Kensington Shand family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwardes Place
1-5 Edwardes Place is a grade II listed terrace of five houses set back from but facing Kensington High Street, with the road into Edwardes Square running alongside no.1, with the similar but longer Earl's Terrace on the other side. The terrace was laid out and built from 1810 to 1819. The entire terrace was acquired by Hugh Morton Shand (1815–1890), British army officer and businessman. Alexander Faulkner Shand (1858–1936), the writer and barrister, and patrilineal great-grandfather of Camilla, Queen Consort, lived at no. 1. The terrace was grade II listed in 1969. References {{Reflist Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Kensington Shand family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kensington High Street
Kensington High Street is the main shopping street in Kensington, London, England. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Kensington High Street is the continuation of Kensington Road and part of the A315. It starts by the entrance to Kensington Palace and runs westward through central Kensington. Near Kensington (Olympia) station, where the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea ends and London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham begins, it ends and becomes Hammersmith Road. The street is served by High Street Kensington underground station. History In 1682, Francis Barry purchased land in Kensington and began to develop houses. From the 1690s to 1893, Kensington High Street was developed around a residential terrace, with large houses occupied by a number of distinguished residents. The Terrace was located roughly between present day Wrights Lane and Adam and Eve Mews. Residents included: * Sir Graham Berry, Premier of V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwardes Square
Edwardes Square is a garden square in Kensington, London, W8. The square was built between 1811 and 1820. 1–23 and 25–48 Edwardes Square are listed Grade II for their architectural merit. Gardens The communal gardens were laid out in 1820 and are in size. The gardens are Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. They are not open to the public. Notable residents * No. 1: Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) resided here for a brief period after his marriage to Frances in 1901 * No. 11: the London home of the author and humanist Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932). * No 16: Sir Roger Bannister (the first man to break the four minute mile) lived here. * No 19: the Italian poet Ugo Foscolo lived here between 1817 and 1818. * No 27: Comedian Frankie Howerd lived here from 1966 until his death in 1992. * No 59: **Artist Frank Cadogan Cowper lived here in Studio 2, between 1909 and 1924. **Pianist and composer Helen Pyke lived here in Studio 4, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl's Terrace
Earls Terrace is a street in Kensington, London, W8. It has houses on one side only, a terrace of 25 Georgian houses, built in 1800–1810, all of which are Grade II listed. Numbers 1 and 25, at the ends of the terrace, are converted into flats. The street overlooks Kensington High Street, with a grass and garden in front, and backs onto Edwardes Square. The entire terrace of 23 houses was redeveloped by Northacre, adding underground parking and "leisure facilities" that include swimming pools. The communal garden is in size, and is not open to the public. Notable residents The pop singer Madonna once rented there, and children's author J. K. Rowling had a home there in 2001. The former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny Lebedev lived in one of the houses in the terrace. * No. 1: Actors Peter Wyngarde and Alan Bates shared a flat at no. 1 for some years in the 1960s.London Electoral Register 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 Elizabeth Inchbald, English dramatist and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Morton Shand
Hugh Morton Shand (13 January 1815 – 24 June 1890) was a British army officer and businessman, the son of Alexander Garden Shand and Isabella Shand nee Morton. He is the patrilineal great-great-grandfather of Camilla, Queen Consort. He served with the British army, went to India and founded a trading company. He bought Edwardes Place, a terrace of five houses in Kensington, London. In 1857, he married Edrica Faulkner (1822–1890), daughter of an "itinerant portrait painter", and they had three sons: *Alexander Faulkner Shand Alexander Faulkner Shand FBA (20 May 1858 – 6 January 1936) was an English writer and barrister. Born in Bayswater, London, he was the son of Hugh Morton Shand, a Scot (grandson of William Shand, 2nd Laird of Craigellie), and his wife Edr ..., (1858–1936) writer and barrister, and patrilineal great-grandfather of Queen Camilla. He died on 24 June 1890 at 13 Leinster Gardens, London. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Shand, Hugh Morton 1815 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Faulkner Shand
Alexander Faulkner Shand FBA (20 May 1858 – 6 January 1936) was an English writer and barrister. Born in Bayswater, London, he was the son of Hugh Morton Shand, a Scot (grandson of William Shand, 2nd Laird of Craigellie), and his wife Edrica Faulkner, the Italian-born daughter of Joshua Wilson Faulkner of Kent. He was a founding member of the British Psychological Society in 1901 and was awarded with honorary membership in 1934. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). He lived at 1 Edwardes Place, Kensington, London. Through his son Philip, he is the patrilineal great-grandfather of Camilla, Queen Consort. References * * 'SHAND, Alexander Faulkner', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200accessed 30 Jan 2012 1858 births 1936 deaths English writers English lawyers English barristers Writers from London Alexander Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camilla, Queen Consort
Camilla (born Camilla Rosemary Shand, later Parker Bowles, 17 July 1947) is Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms as the wife of King Charles III. She became queen consort on 8 September 2022, upon the accession of her husband following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. Camilla was raised in East Sussex and South Kensington in England and educated in England, Switzerland, and France. In 1973, she married British Army officer Andrew Parker Bowles; they divorced in 1995. Camilla and Charles were romantically involved periodically both before and during each of their first marriages. Their relationship was highly publicised in the media and attracted worldwide scrutiny. In 2005, Camilla married Charles in the Windsor Guildhall, which was followed by a televised Anglican blessing at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. From the marriage until her husband's accession in 2022, she was known as the Duchess of Cornwall. Camilla carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streets In The Royal Borough Of Kensington And Chelsea
Streets is the plural of street, a type of road. Streets or The Streets may also refer to: Music * Streets (band), a rock band fronted by Kansas vocalist Steve Walsh * ''Streets'' (punk album), a 1977 compilation album of various early UK punk bands * '' Streets...'', a 1975 album by Ralph McTell * '' Streets: A Rock Opera'', a 1991 album by Savatage * "Streets" (song) by Doja Cat, from the album ''Hot Pink'' (2019) * "Streets", a song by Avenged Sevenfold from the album ''Sounding the Seventh Trumpet'' (2001) * The Streets, alias of Mike Skinner, a British rapper * "The Streets" (song) by WC featuring Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg, from the album ''Ghetto Heisman'' (2002) Other uses * ''Streets'' (film), a 1990 American horror film * Streets (ice cream), an Australian ice cream brand owned by Unilever * Streets (solitaire), a variant of the solitaire game Napoleon at St Helena * Tai Streets (born 1977), American football player * Will Streets (1886–1916), English soldier and poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kensington
Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West End of London, West of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensington Gardens, containing the Albert Memorial, the Serpentine Gallery and John Hanning Speke, Speke's monument. South Kensington and Gloucester Road, London, Gloucester Road are home to Imperial College London, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Albert Hall, Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Science Museum, London, Science Museum. The area is also home to many embassies and consulates. Name The Manorialism, manor of ''Chenesitone'' is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, which in the Old English language, Anglo-Saxon language means "Chenesi's List of generic forms in place names in Ireland and the United Kingdom, ton" (homestead/settlement). One early spelling is ''Kesyngton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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