Queen's Gardens, Westminster is a garden square in the Bayswater district of the City of Westminster in London. The square was built in the 1850s along with the rest of the area, another notable garden square being Cleveland Gardens, with all being built by William Frederick Cleveland of Maida Vale who developed many plots in Paddington and Bayswater. Queen's Gardens was built around 1855.

Notable residents

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Henry St George Tucker Henry St George Tucker (1771–1851) was an English financier and official of the East India Company. He was Accountant General in 1801 and again in 1805, and was Chairman of the Company in 1834 and 1847. Personal life Henry St. George Tucker wa ...

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Henry Seton-Karr Sir Henry Seton-Karr (5 February 1853 – 29 May 1914) was an English explorer, hunter and author and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906. Seton-Karr, born in India in 1853, was the son of George Berkel ...

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Forrest Fulton Sir (James) Forrest Fulton (12 July 1846 – 25 June 1926) was a British judge and Conservative politician. Early life Born in Ostend, Belgium, he was the youngest son of Lieutenant-Colonel James Forrest Fulton and his wife, Fanny née Jessopp. ...

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