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In this section
Some Former Residents
This list excludes occupants mentioned above.
Princes Gate (Nos 32–43 and 59–68 demolished)
No. 30 Henry Huth, merchant banker and bibliophile
No. 31 Sir (William) Charles Wright, industrialist, chairman of Baldwins Ltd
No. 32 David Mocatta, architect; Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts
No. 33 Henry William Ferdinand Bölckow, ironmaster, MP and art collector
No. 39 Lieut.-Col. Alexander Leith Wyllie, industrialist, chairman of the RSPCA; Sir Stuart Campbell, senior executive at The Times and Daily Mail; Charles Theodore te Water, South African diplomatist
No. 44 Sir Robert Elliott-Cooper, civil engineer
No. 46 Ernest Noel, chairman of the Artisans' Dwellings Company
No. 47 Walter Victor Hutchinson, publisher
No. 51 Alexander Brogden, industrialist and MP; (Sir) James Timmins Chance, glassmaker
No. 53 Earl Carrington, subsequently 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, politician
No. 55 Sir Frank Hillyard Newnes, 2nd Bart, publisher and MP
No. 56 Sir Bernhard Samuelson, 1st Bart, industrialist and politician (previously at No. 69 Princes Gate)
No. 57 Sir (James John) Trevor Lawrence, 2nd Bart, MP, President of the Royal Horticultural Society
No. 59 Frank (Francis Augustus) Bevan, banker (previously at No. 72)
No. 60 Sir James Mills, Chairman of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand
No. 62 Henry John Selwin-Ibbetson, 1st Baron Rookwood, politician
No. 65 Viscount Bury (later 7th Earl of Albemarle), politician
No. 69 see No. 56
No. 70 (Sir) Everard Alexander Hambro, merchant banker
No. 71 Hugh Colin Smith, Governor of the Bank of England; Sir Clement Anderson Montague Barlow, politician, chairman of Sothebys
No. 72 (see also No. 59) Lord Acton, historian; Joseph Chamberlain was briefly Acton's tenant here
Princes Gardens (all except Nos 8–15 and 46–48 demolished)
No. 2 Arthur Pease, industrialist and MP
No. 3 Sir John Barnard Byles, lawyer, author of Byles on Bills
No. 4 Sir George Markham Giffard, Lord Justice of Appeal; Rt Hon. Sir Charles Ernest Swann, 1st Bart, politician; Sir James Currie, educationist
No. 5 Clementina, Lady Hawarden, wife of 4th Viscount Hawarden, one of the earliest woman photographers and the first to achieve critical recognition (her studio and darkroom were on the first floor); Maj. Edward Howard Thornbrough Parsons, Chief Constable, Metropolitan Police
No. 7 Viscount Emlyn, later 3rd Earl of Cawdor, First Lord of the Admiralty, chairman of the Great Western Railway
No. 10 Peter Blackburn, Lord of the Treasury, chairman of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
No. 11 Sir Henry Singer Keating, judge
No. 12 Sir William Erle, judge
No. 13 Sir George William Allen, founder of Allahabad Pioneer and Civil and Military Gazette; John Brownlee Lonsdale, later 1st Baron Armaghdale, Irish Unionist politician
No. 16 Baron Monk Bretton, Chairman of the London County Council
No. 17 Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, politician
No. 18 (Sir) Joseph Whitwell Pease, industrialist and MP, first Quaker to accept an honour from the Crown; William Rathbone, nursing reformer and politician; Sir Charles John Darling (later Lord Darling), judge
No. 19 Earl Jellicoe, Admiral of the Fleet
No. 20 Sir Daniel Cooper, 1st Bart, first Speaker of the New South Wales legislative assembly
No. 22 Sir Bartle Frere, colonial administrator and statesman; General Sir Richard Harrison, veteran of the Siege of Lucknow; Ossian Donner, Finnish diplomat and industrialist
No. 25 Walter Sydney Sichel, writer
No. 26 Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Bart, shipowner
No. 27 Lieut.-Gen. Sir Edward Macarthur, Peninsular War veteran, acting Governor of Victoria
No. 32 Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson, Australian businessman and statesman; Field Marshal the Earl of Cavan, Chief of the Imperial General Staff
No. 35 Sir Robert Williams, 1st Bart, engineer and colleague of Cecil Rhodes
No. 36 Gen. James Robertson Craufurd, Brigade of Guards commander in the Crimea
No. 39 Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare of Duffryn, statesman
No. 40 Joseph Chamberlain and his son Austen, statesmen
No. 42 Marcus Gervais Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh
No. 44 Sir George Houstoun Reid, Australian Prime Minister