Connaught Place is an area in the

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area of the

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). The nearest

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station to Connaught Place is

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which is a few minutes to the East near

walking past the site of the

Tyburn Tree Tyburn was a manor (estate) in London, Middlesex, England, one of two which were served by the parish of Marylebone. Tyburn took its name from the Tyburn Brook, a tributary of the River Westbourne. The name Tyburn, from Teo Bourne, means 'bo ...

. Located at the edge of Hyde Park, Connaught Place is framed by

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, Seymore Street and Stanhope Place. Connaught Street and

Connaught Square Connaught Square in London, England, was the first garden square, square of terraced house, city houses to be built in Bayswater. It is named after a royal, the Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Earl of Connaught who ...

are located nearby. The head offices of the

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and

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are located here, as is the Matlock Bank, Mayfair Conference Centre, The Victory Services Club, and various companies A blue plaque at number 2 records the residence there of

Lord Randolph Churchill Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895) was a British aristocrat and politician. Churchill was a Tory radical who coined the term "One-nation conservatism, Tory democracy". He participated in the creation ...

from 1883 to 1892. Idina Sackville was living in Connaught Place in 1914.Why Idina Sackville bolted off for a bit of white mischief
/ref> The art dealer Asher Wertheimer, who commissioned

John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 15, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era, Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil ...

to do the Wertheimer portraits, lived at 8 Connaught Place.

Alexander Beresford Hope Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope PC (25 January 1820 – 20 October 1887), known as Alexander Hope until 1854 (and also known as A. J. B. Hope until 1854 and as A. J. B. Beresford Hope from 1854 onwards), was a British author and C ...

lived at 1 Connaught Place, Sir

John Murray Scott Sir John Edward Arthur Murray Scott, 1st Baronet of Connaught Place (1847–1912) was a British art historian and collector. He is often referred to as John Murray Scott. He is best known for his role in the formation of the Wallace Collection. E ...

at number 5,

Frederick David Mocatta Frederick David Mocatta (1828–1905), also known as Frederic David Mocatta, was an English financier and philanthropist from a notable Anglo-Jewish family. Life Mocatta was a partner of the London bullion broker, Mocatta & Goldsmid (established ...

at number 9, and

Constance Flower Constance Flower, Baroness Battersea (née de Rothschild; 29 April 1843, Piccadilly, London – 22 November 1931, Overstrand), also known as Lady Battersea, was a society hostess and philanthropist in London who established the Jewish Associatio ...

at number 10 after 1907.

References

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