Grosvenor Gardens is the name given to two triangular parks in

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, faced on their western and eastern sides by streets of the same name. Both roads run roughly north to south from Hobart Place and Grosvenor Place to

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, and is entirely the A3215. Notable buildings include the Grade II-listed Grosvenor Gardens House at Nos. 23–47, built in about 1868 by the architect Thomas Cundy III in the

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style. The Rifle Brigade War Memorial commemorates the service of the

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in the First and Second World Wars. It stands at the junction of Grosvenor Gardens and Hobart Place, on land donated by the 2nd Duke of Westminster. The shell-covered huts in the southern garden were part of a redesign of the park by Jean Moreux, architect-in-chief of the National Monuments and Palaces of France, in 1952. The ''fabrique'' style buildings are covered with shells from England and France, and are used to store gardening equipment. The northern garden contains the sculpture '' Lioness and Lesser Kudu'' by Jonathan Kenworthy, installed in 2000.

Notable residents

* William Henry Blackmore (1827–1878), killed himself in his study at Belgrave Mansions, Grosvenor Gardens * Henry Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans (1835–1911), lived at No. 13 * John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans (1890–1922), born and lived at No. 13 *

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(1900–1988), grew up at No. 15 *Count Hayashi Tadasu (1850–1913), First Ambassador of Japan to Great Britain. Lived at No. 4. * Agnes Keyser opened a hospital during the First World War at No. 9, a close friend of

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, set up to nurse British officers, including the novelist Stuart Cloete. The hospital became

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. *

Augustus Pitt Rivers Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (14 April 18274 May 1900) was an English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for innovations in archaeological methodology, and in the museum display ...

(1827–1900), lived at No. 4, commemorated with a

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* F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872–1930), lived at No. 32, commemorated with a

References

* Belgravia Streets in the City of Westminster {{London-road-stub