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, 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
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.
Henry VIII of England | Henry VIII | Henry Kissinger | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Henry II of England | Henry II | Henry III of England | Henry IV of France | Henry IV | Henry | Henry Ford | Henry James | Henry VII of England | Henry III | James Earl Jones | Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Henry Moore | Henry Miller | Henry I of England | Henry Clay | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Henry IV of England | Patrick Henry | Henry Mancini | St Albans | Henry V | Henry David Thoreau | Joseph Henry Blackburne |
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