Egerton Gardens is a street and communal garden, regionally termed a

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, in

South Kensington South Kensington, nicknamed Little Paris, is a district just west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton. Its name was supplanted with ...

, London SW3.

Location

The street runs roughly south-west to north-east, off

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. Egerton Crescent, runs roughly off it, and Egerton Terrace crosses it. Historially for more than 800 years the area formed part of Brompton, parochially in the Church of England this is recognised by the name of its parish ''

Holy Trinity Brompton Holy Trinity Brompton with St Paul's, Onslow Square and St Augustine's, South Kensington, often referred to simply as HTB, is an Anglican church in London, England. The church consists of six sites: HTB Brompton Road, HTB Onslow Square (former ...

''.

History

Much was built by Alexander Thorn, and the architect for most was probably Maurice Charles Hulbert. Notable houses include Mortimer House. The Franklin Hotel at 22-28 Egerton Gardens was created by combining four houses. No 31 was designed by Thomas Henry Smith for Lieutenant-Colonel William Wetherly, but is now flats.

Notable residents

* No 1 Admiral Sir Michael Seymour. * No 17 Major-General

Charles Edmund Webber Charles Edmund Webber (5 September 1838 – 23 September 1904) was a British soldier, engineer and author. Early life and family Born in Dublin, Ireland, Charles was the third son of Rev. Thomas Webber, of Leekfield, County Sligo and Frances K ...

, the street's first occupant, in 1887. * No 31 Sir Ronald Waterhouse, judge, lived in a flat there from 1957 to 1958. * No 38

William Romilly, 2nd Baron Romilly William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

, who died in a fire there with two servants in 1891. * No 41 Sir Guy Stephenson, barrister, until his death in 1930.‘STEPHENSON, Sir Guy’, in '' Who Was Who 1929–1940'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1967 reprint; ) * No.44 Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, lived in a bed-sitting room there in 1955.Ruth Ellis.
Virtual Museum – The History of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 2006. Retrieved 22 March 2023. * No 49 Valentine Browne, 5th Earl of Kenmare in 1907 (at least) * No 53 Florence Tyzack Parbury, socialite, author, musician, painter and traveller

References

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