Southern end of Hamilton Terrace - geograph

Hamilton Terrace is a wide, tree-lined residential thoroughfare in

St John's Wood St John's Wood is a district in the City of Westminster, London, lying 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Charing Cross. Traditionally the northern part of the ancient parish and Metropolitan Borough of Marylebone, it extends east to west from ...

, London, England. It runs north to south from Carlton Hill to St. John's Wood Road, and is parallel to

Maida Vale Maida Vale ( ) is an affluent residential district consisting of the northern part of Paddington in West London, west of St John's Wood and south of Kilburn. It is also the name of its main road, on the continuous Edgware Road. Maida Vale is ...

to the west. The street was named after Charles Hamilton, a Harrow School governor. The street is home to a variety of grand detached and semi-detached houses and mansion blocks. The listed Anglican church

St Mark's, Hamilton Terrace St Mark's Church, Hamilton Terrace, is an Anglican church in the leafy St John's Wood neighbourhood of the City of Westminster, London. The building was completed by 1847 and was badly damaged in an unexplained fire on 26 January 2023. It is loca ...

is located at the intersection of Abercorn Place and Hamilton Terrace.

Notable residents

*No.3

Michael Ayrton Michael Ayrton (20 February 1921 – 16 November 1975)T. G. Rosenthal, "Ayrton , Michael (1921–1975)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008accessed 24 Jan 2015/ref> was a British arti ...

, English artist, lived at No. 3 *No.8 Norman Kerr, physician remembered for his work in the British temperance movement, lived at No. 8 (formerly No. 1) *No.10 Henry Barnett, banker and politician, lived at No. 10. Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor and musicologist, lived at No. 10. *No.14 Philip Jones, English jazz trumpeter, lived at No. 14 *No.17 Sir

Joseph Bazalgette Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB (; 28 March 181915 March 1891) was a 19th-century English civil engineer. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation (in response to the Great Stink of 1 ...

, English civil engineer, designer of the

Victoria Embankment Victoria Embankment is part of the Thames Embankment, a road and river-walk along the north bank of the River Thames in London. It runs from the Palace of Westminster to Blackfriars Bridge in the City of London, and acts as a major thoroughfare ...

, lived at No. 17 *No.20 Sir

George Alexander Macfarren Sir George Alexander Macfarren (2 March 181331 October 1887) was an English composer and musicologist. Life George Alexander Macfarren was born in London on 2 March 1813 to George Macfarren, a dancing-master, dramatic author and journalist, wh ...

, English composer, lived at No. 20 *No.20 William McMillan, Scottish sculptor, lived at No. 20 *No.20

William Strang William Strang (13 February 1859 – 12 April 1921) was a Scottish painter and printmaker, notable for illustrating the works of John Bunyan, Bunyan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge and Rudyard Kipling, Kipling. Early life Strang was bor ...

, Scottish artist, lived at No. 20 *No.29

Nicholas Trübner Nicholas Trübner (17 June 1817 – 20 March 1884), born Nikolaus Trübner, was a German-English publisher, bookseller and linguist. Early life The eldest of four sons of a goldsmith in Heidelberg, Trübner was born there on 17 June 1817, and edu ...

, publisher, bookseller and linguist, lived at No. 29 *No.29 Joseph Octave Delepierre, Belgian lawyer, archivist, diplomat, author and antiquary, died at No.29. *No.37 John Minton, and

Keith Vaughan John Keith Vaughan (23 August 1912 – 4 November 1977), was a British painter. Biography Born at Selsey in West Sussex, Vaughan attended Christ's Hospital school. He worked in an advertising agency until the World War II, when as an intending ...

, English artists, shared a flat at No. 37 *No.40

Honor Blackman Honor Blackman (22 August 1925 – 5 April 2020) was an English actress, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in '' The Avengers''Aaker, Everett (2006). ''Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 58. (1962 ...

, English actress *No.40

Kathleen Ferrier Kathleen Mary Ferrier, CBE (22 April 19128 October 1953) was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the c ...

, English singer *No.63 Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, English dramatist, actor and theatre manager, lived at No. 63 *No.65

Alan Wheatley Alan Wheatley (19 April 1907 – 30 August 1991) was an English actor. He was a well known stage actor in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, appeared in forty films between 1931 and 1965 and was a frequent broadcaster on radio from the 1930s to the ...

, English actor, lived at No. 65 *No.70 Thomas Hardy, English novelist, author of '' Far from the Madding Crowd'', rented No.70, in 1893 *No.93

Gerald Finzi Gerald Raphael Finzi (14 July 1901 – 27 September 1956) was a British composer. Finzi is best known as a choral composer, but also wrote in other genres. Large-scale compositions by Finzi include the cantata '' Dies natalis'' for solo voice and ...

, English composer, was born at No. 93 *No.98 Brian Johnston, English cricket commentator and journalist, lived at No. 98 *No 100 Henry Barnett, banker and politician, was the original owner.

Robbie Williams Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, and achieved commercial success after launching a solo career in 1996. His debut stud ...

temporarily rented it before the debut of his 2019 Christmas album song, "Idlewild". *No.103

Joseph Hertz Joseph Herman Hertz (25 September 1872 – 14 January 1946) was a British Rabbi and biblical scholar. He held the position of Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1913 until his death in 1946, in a period encompassing both world wars and the ...

, Hungarian rabbi, Chief Rabbi in Britain from 1913 to 1946, lived at No. 103 *No.135 Audrey Fildes, English actress, lived at No. 135 * Henry Stacy Marks, English painter *

Gerald Moore Gerald Moore CBE (30 July 1899 – 13 March 1987) was an English classical pianist best known for his career as a collaborative pianist for many distinguished musicians. Among those with whom he was closely associated were Dietrich Fischer-Di ...

, English classical pianist

References

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