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3 unusual facts about Hans Place


Hans Place

(The octagonal shape of the square is thought to have been modelled on the Place Vendôme in Paris).

Hans Place was the scene of a murder in 1983, when actor Peter Arne was battered to death in his flat, apparently by an Italian vagrant who committed suicide shortly afterwards.

The delegates were Arthur Griffith, Robert Barton, and Michael Collins; Secretary to the delegation was Robert Erskine Childers who was also Robert Barton's cousin and father of the Fourth President of Ireland Erskine Hamilton Childers.



see also

N. R. Pillai

In his last years, Pillai resided at 26 Hans Place in Kensington, Knightsbridge.