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2 unusual facts about London House


London House

London House, a postgraduate residence and educational trust in central London

The London House, Chicago, a former s a jazz club and restaurant in Chicago



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48 Belgrave Square

The house was bought in 1840 by Col. Christopher Hamilton MP from the Grosvenor Estate and was the Hamilton family's main London house, the house eventually passed to his granddaughter Sarah Winter in 1890 who continued to live there until her death in 1945.

Aldersgate

Aldersgate Street contained the Bishop of London's chapel and his chambers at London House, which was used from the 18th century because it was closer to St. Paul's Cathedral than his official residence in Fulham, west London.

David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood

Lord Harewood was born at his parents' London house, 2 Orme Square, Bayswater, London, the eldest son of the 7th Earl of Harewood and his first wife, Marion Stein.

George Alexander Baird

Baird's London house - 36 Curzon Street - came to him during an evening of dining and drinking with it's then owner Sir George Chetwynd, another man of the turf.

Horace Farquhar, 1st Earl Farquhar

He was very generous with his hospitality at his London house and at Castle Rising, his country place in Norfolk, but nevertheless, and perhaps because of the wealth and honours he accumulated, he remained an unpopular figure.

Katharine Goodson

When her sister Ethel, who had stayed with her during much of her time in Vienna, went to Budapest to become the governess to the son of Count István Tisza, the Prime Minister of Hungary, Goodson went to stay with academic and parliamentarian William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington and his wife Lady Katrina Conway at their London house.

Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet

Other new furnishings, for Aske and for Sir Lawrence's magnificently appointed London house at 19 Arlington Street, were supplied by Thomas Chippendale (1763–66), and Chippendale's rivals, the royal cabinet-makers William Vile and John Cobb, and Samuel Norman (Gilbert).

Spencer House, London

The house was commissioned by John, 1st Earl Spencer in 1756, the Earl requiring a large London house to cement his position and status.