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12 unusual facts about Marylebone


Call Me Burroughs

McCartney was so impressed by the album that he hired the producer, Ian Sommerville, to set up a studio and act as tape operator for him in an apartment Ringo Starr owned, but was not using, at 34 Montagu Place.

Charles Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden

Lord Howard de Walden married Lady Lucy Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (c. 1813 – 29 July 1899), daughter of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, at All Souls' Church in Marylebone on 8 November 1828.

Emma Elizabeth Thoyts

Emma was born in Bryanston Square, Marylebone in Middlesex on 8 July 1860, the eldest daughter Maj. William Richard Mortimer Thoyts of Sulhamstead House in Berkshire and his wife, Anne Annabella Puleston.

Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke

He bought 40 Queen Anne St, Marylebone (near Oxford Street), London, using "it as a London town-house only during the Season".

International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communication

It is based on York Street, between Gloucester Place and Baker Street (both part of the A41), in Marylebone in the north-west of central London.

John Mercer-Henderson, 8th Earl of Buckinghamshire

He died suddenly at King Edward VII's Royal Hospital, St Marylebone in London on 2 January 1963.

Old St Andrew's Church, Kingsbury

This church had originated in 1847 in Wells Street in the Marylebone area of London.

Portman baronets

Sir William Portman had acquired land in Marylebone, London, which through the later housing developments of Henry William Portman became the Portman Estate, which today is one of Central London's largest landlords and is still the basis of the wealth of the Portman family.

Robert Freebairn

Freebairn died in Buckingham Place, New Road, Marylebone, on 23 Jan. 1808, aged 42, leaving a widow and four children.

Sylvain Van de Weyer

They had two sons and five daughters, who were brought up in Marylebone and on their country estate at New Lodge in the parish of Winkfield in Berkshire.

The Showroom

In 2008, the gallery relocated to a building in Marylebone, London on Penfold Street, which was converted by Berlin-based architects ifau + Jesko Fezer.

Viscount Portman

He had acquired land in Marylebone, London, which - through the later housing developments of Henry William Portman, who turned it into the Portman Estate - is still the base of the Portman family wealth.


Alexander Cadell

Cadell's great-uncle Vernon Royle represented Lancashire, Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club in first-class cricket.

Arthur Beresford Pite

Pite continued working on his commissions including the Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, Christ Church and one other church in Brixton, Kampala Cathedral, Uganda, a hospital in Jerusalem, the Chartered Accounts Hall in Moorgate (with Belcher), the West Library in Islington and buildings in Marylebone to name but a few.

Bakerloo line

By 1913, the line had been extended from its original northern terminus at Baker Street to the west with interchange stations with the Great Central Railway at Marylebone and the Great Western Railway at Paddington, and a new station at Edgware Road.

Basil Harwood

During this time, he met and married Mabel Ada Jennings (the daughter of George Jennings) (who had become a pupil of his in 1896) at All Souls St. Marylebone, London (27 December 1899).

British Rail Class 115

The Marylebone sets, which were later transferred to Bletchley but remained on Chiltern Line duties, were declared surplus after the introduction of Class 165s, from 1991 onwards.

Candida Lycett Green

There were also excursions by train from London to Bristol and, through “Metro-land”, to Quainton Road; Lycett Green unveiled a commemorative plaque at Marylebone station to mark Betjeman's fond association with the railways.

Charles Eccles

Eccles brother William Eccles represented the Marylebone Cricket Club in two first-class matches.

Chiltern Railways

Half-hourly London Marylebone – Birmingham Moor Street via High Wycombe fast and semi-fast service, extended to Birmingham Snow Hill hourly

Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor

The Committee soon organised two venues for regular distribution of alms: the White Raven tavern in Mile End and the Yorkshire Stingo, in Lisson Grove, Marylebone.

Cutler and Gross

Cutler and Gross eye wear are designed at the Cutler and Gross headquarters in Marylebone, London and are handmade in a factory in Pieve di Cadore, Italy.

Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset

After his first wife's death in 1827 he married, secondly, Margaret Shaw-Stewart (d. Somerset House, Park Lane, London, 18 July 1880), daughter of Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, of Blackhall, Renfrewshire, 5th Baronet, and his wife Catherine Maxwell, daughter of Sir William Maxwell, 3rd Baronet, in Marylebone, Portland Place, London, on 28 July 1836.

Embassy of Brazil, London

The Brazilian ambassador's residence is located is a separate building at 54 Mount Street, Mayfair as is the Consular section which is at 3-4 Vere Street, Marylebone.

Frederick Richard Say

Frederick’s parents were William Say, a noted London engraver, and Eleanor Francis, who married on 30 December 1790 at St Mary Marylebone in London.

George Longman

Longman's son Henry played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Surrey, Middlesex and the Marylebone Cricket Club.

Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield

Born in Marylebone, London, Sheffield was the second but eldest surviving son of George Holroyd, 2nd Earl of Sheffield, and his wife Lady Harriet, daughter of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood.

James Belcher

Belcher died on 30 July 1811 at the Coach and Horses, Frith Street, Soho, a property which he left to his widow ; he was interred in the Marylebone burial ground.

John Crosdill

Social eyebrows were raised when Crosdill married Elizabeth, née Thresher, the wealthy widow of Robert Colebrook, (brother of Sir George Colebrooke), on 31 May 1785 at St. Marylebone Church, London.

John Witherston Rickards

Bishop Robert Gray of Cape Town visited St Cyprian's Marylebone on St Cyprian's Day 1870 and it is surmised that his sermon and call for recruits to the church in South Africa had inspired Rickards.

Joseph Child Priestley

Priestley was born at No. 31, Somerset Street, Portman Square, Marylebone on 11 January 1862, the son of William Overend Priestley and his wife, Eliza Chambers (the daughter of Robert Chambers, the well known publisher, of Edinburgh).

London Government Act 1899

Edmund Boulnois, member for Marylebone East moved an amendment to ban women form being mayors, aldermen or councillors of the new boroughs.

Lothian Sheffield Dickson

He stood unsuccessfully as a Radical for Marylebone in 1859 general election.

Magdalen Ground

Fred Morley, who later represented England took 7/6 and in the second innings 6/8 for the Marylebone Cricket Club, which remains the most outstanding match analysis of all time.

Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

Born in Marylebone, London and raised in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, Mrs Belloc Lowndes was the only daughter of French barrister Louis Belloc and English feminist Bessie Parkes.

Nigel Patrick

He married the actress Beatrice Campbell at St James' Roman Catholic Church, Spanish Place, Marylebone, London on 12 January 1951.

Nipper Pat Daly

Born in Abercrave, Wales, he moved to Marylebone, London at the age of five, then moved again with his family to the Canadian mining town of Wayne, Alberta in 1920.

Within two years the family returned to Marylebone, and shortly afterwards he started to take boxing lessons at the Marylebone Road gym of 'Professor' Andrew Newton, one of Britain's leading trainers of the day, who coached and managed Daly for most of his career.

Princes Risborough

The Great Central built a new line from Marylebone to join this railway at South Ruislip (then called Northolt Junction).

Samuel Rayner

Samuel Rayner was born in 1806 at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire (now in Berkshire); afterwards the family moved to Marylebone in London where he was possibly trained by his grandfather.

Sir John Austen, 1st Baronet

He inherited the Manor of Tyburn, or Marylebone, from his mother's family and sold it in 1710 to John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle.

South Ruislip station

The GWR/GCR Joint line to High Wycombe carried services from both Paddington and Marylebone.

Sybil Fane, Countess of Westmorland

Lady Westmorland died at 58 Queen Anne’s Street in Marylebone, London on 21 July 1910, aged 39, and was buried in the Rosslyn Chapel.

Thomas Lord

His son, also Thomas Lord, and born in Marylebone on 27 December 1794, was also a first-class cricketer.

Tricia Guild

Tricia Guild OBE is a British designer and the founder and Creative Director of Designers Guild an international home and lifestyle company with a flagship store and showroom on the Kings Road and Marylebone High Street in London, and offices in London, Paris and Munich.

William Henry Rhodes-Moorhouse

After travelling extensively, on 15 September 1936 at Marylebone Rhodes-Moorhouse married Amalia Demetriadi, who had been approached to be screen-tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the film Gone with the Wind.

William Jervis

Jervis was born at St Marylebone, second son of William Jervis Jervis, and grandson of the 2nd Viscount St Vincent.

Women shall not Weep

Marylebone was chosen because Charing Cross, which was the station actually used for the transportation of troops, looked too modern and it was decided that Marylebone looked most authentic for a 1915 setting.