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4 unusual facts about Portman Square


Elizabeth Montagu

In 1777, she began work on Montagu House in Portman Square in London, moving in in 1781, on land leased for 99 years.

Orchard Court

Orchard Court is an apartment block situated on the eastern side of Portman Square in London.

Portman Square

It included residences of Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, Sir Brook Bridges, 3rd Baronet, Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, George Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle, Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet and William Henry Percy.

W. J. E. Bennett

For a while he held this latter post alongside the Perpetual curacy of Portman Chapel, Portman Square 1836-1841).


Simon McTavish

In 1817, at Marylebone Church, she married Major Charles Pasley (1781-1821), of Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London; nephew of Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley.


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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).