Orme Square is a square in

Bayswater Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster in West London. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and ...

, London, England, off the north side of Bayswater Road and on the north-west corner of

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, overlooking

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Origin of Name

It is named after the British engraver, painter, publisher of illustrated books, and property developer

Edward Orme Edward Orme (1775-1848) was a British engraver, painter and publisher of illustrated books. He was also a property developer in Bayswater, where Orme Square was named after him. Early life Edward Orme was born in 1775 in Manchester. His father, ...

(1775-1848). 1–2 and 3 Orme Square are

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Notable residents

* 1

Rowland Hill Sir Rowland Hill, KCB, FRS (3 December 1795 – 27 August 1879) was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of Uniform Penny Post and his soluti ...

(1795–1879), postal reformer, who lived there from 1839 to 1842, while he was introducing the

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. * 2

Frederic Leighton Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subjec ...

, artist who lived there from 1860 to 1866. * 2 George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood * 2

David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood David Henry George Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood (born 21 October 1950), styled as Viscount Lascelles until 2011, is a British hereditary peer and film and television producer. He is a second cousin of Charles III and a great-grandson of Geo ...

* 3

Emelia Russell Gurney Emelia Russell Gurney (1823–1896) was an English activist, patron and benefactor. After her marriage she was generally known as Mrs. Russell Gurney. Life She was born Emelia Batten, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Ellis Batten (1792–1830), mas ...

, activist who lived there until her death in 1896. * 4 Leopold Canning, 4th Baron Garvagh (1878–1956),

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officer and co-founder of the

British Fascisti The British Fascists was the first political organisation in the United Kingdom to claim the label of fascist, although the group had little ideological unity apart from anti-socialism for much of its existence, and was strongly associated with ...

* 8 Charles Hall,

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. * 12

Edward Dannreuther Edward George Dannreuther (4 November 1844, Strasbourg – 12 February 1905, Hastings) was a German pianist and writer on music, resident from 1863 in England. His father had crossed the Atlantic, moving to Cincinnati, and there established a pia ...

(1844-1905), German pianist and writer on music * Mackenzie Bell (1856-1930), writer, poet and literary critic *

Henry Fauntleroy Henry Fauntleroy (12 October 1784 – 30 November 1824) was an English banker and forger. After seven years as a clerk in the London bank of Marsh, Sibbald & Co., of which his father was one of the founders, he was taken into partnership, and ...

(1794-1824), forger. * Jeremy ThorpeJohn Preston: ''A Very English Scandal'', Viking, 2016

References

{{Commons category, Orme Square Bayswater Streets in the City of Westminster