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4 unusual facts about Henry Jermyn


Franklin Place

These additional amenities for residents recalled what St Albans had done for St. James's Square, and were a bold move, considering that Puritan Boston had banned theatrical performances until December 1793 and had displayed religious intolerance throughout its history.

Henry Jermyn

Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron Dover (c. 1636–1708), nephew of the former, second son of (a later) Sir Thomas Jermyn and third and last Baron Jermyn of St Edmundsbury

Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans KG (c. 1604–1684), third son of Sir Thomas Jermyn and first Baron Jermyn of St Edmundsbury, Governor of Jersey

St James's

In the 1660s, Charles II gave the right to develop the area to Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans, who proceeded to develop it as a predominantly aristocratic residential area with a grid of streets centered on St James's Square.



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