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6 unusual facts about St James's


Chubby Oates

Chubby Oates born Arthur Oates (23 December 1942 – 10 November 2006) was a Cockney clubland comic and character actor.

Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

Lady Georgiana Elizabeth Spencer-Churchill (10 St James's Square, St James's, London, 14 May 1860 – 9 February 1906), married 4 June 1883 Richard George Penn Curzon, 4th Earl Howe, by whom she had issue.

St James's

The White Cube gallery, which represents Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, had originally opened in Duke Street, St James's, then moved to Hoxton Square.

St James's is also the home of many of the best known gentlemen's clubs in London, and is sometimes, though not as often as formerly, referred to as "Clubland".

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.

Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath

Known by the courtesy title Viscount Weymouth from birth, he was born at The Stable Yard, St James's, London, the eldest son of John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, by the Honourable Frances Isabella Catherine Vesey, daughter of Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci.


Aura Mayfair

Aura Mayfair is a high profile nightclub located on St James's Street in the Mayfair district of London.

Bath Club

After the bombing, it was housed by the struggling Conservative Club at 74 St James's Street, which eventually agreed to a full merger in 1950 under the name of the Bath Club, retaining the Conservative Club's St James's Street club house until 1959.

Blades Club

Blades is situated on “Park Street” (correct name Park Place) off of St James's Street, at the approximate location of the real-life club Pratt's.

Charfield railway disaster

There is a memorial to remember those who lost their lives at St James Church in Charfield, where the two unknown children are buried.

Cheltenham Spa railway station

Within the town there were three other passenger railway stations: Malvern Road, St James's and Cheltenham South and Leckhampton; there was also High Street Halt and the Racecourse Platform, open only on race days.

Children of the Chapel

Their special school within St James's Palace no longer operates; the boys all attend the City of London School and receive a choral scholarship from The Queen.

Conservative Club

From 1845 until 1959, the club occupied a building at 74 St James's Street.

Donald Baverstock

In 1957 Baverstock married Gillian Darrell Waters, elder daughter of British children's author Enid Blyton, at St James's Church, Piccadilly.

Eddie Flynn

In 1938, Flynn played for St. James' Gate Football Club (sponsored by Guinness Brewers, where Flynn was also employed at the time) in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

Ethel Anderson

She was asked by the rector of St James' Church, Sydney to help decorate the Children's Chapel and designed a mural scheme for it which was executed by the group in 1929.

Gary Brazil

Manager Jim Smith gave him just five starts in 1989–90, as indifferent form and injuries kept Brazil behind strike partners Mark McGhee and Micky Quinn in the first team pecking order at St James' Park.

Georgina Cookson

That same decade saw her in Love Goes to Press, with Irene Worth, at the Embassy and Duchess Theatre (1946) and briefly on Broadway the following year; School for Spinsters (Criterion Theatre, 1947), Portrait of Hickory (Embassy, Swiss Cottage, 1948) and opposite Jack Buchanan in Don’t Listen, Ladies! at the St James's Theatre in 1949.

Gerrard Andrewes

Lady Talbot admired his sermons, and presented him in 1800 to the living of Mickleham, Surrey, to which he was again presented in 1802 after resigning it upon his collation by Bishop Beilby Porteus to St James's, Piccadilly.

Hartley Alleyne

Hartley Leroy Alleyne (born 28 February 1957 in Derricks, St James) is a former Barbadian cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler who played for Barbados, Worcestershire, Kent and Natal between 1978-79 and 1989-90.

Johann von Lamont

In 1817 his father died and John was sent to be educated at St James' monastery (Scots Benedictine College) at Ratisbon, Germany.

John Fountayne

He is buried in St James' Church, High Melton, the parish church of his family estate in South Yorkshire, a building in which he erected several substantial family memorials and installed much of the church's stained glass.

Liverpool St James railway station

The station is located at the Parliament Street and St. James' Place junction, opposite St James' Church.

London Conference of 1912–13

The Conference started in September 1912 at the St James's Palace under the chairmanship of Sir Edward Grey.

Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Stoney was carried on a stretcher down the aisle of St James's Church, Piccadilly, where he married Mary.

Ormside bowl

The bowl was found buried in 1823 in what is now St James' Churchyard in Great Ormside and donated to the Yorkshire Museum.

Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom

Amelia was christened at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace by John Moore, The Archbishop of Canterbury, on 17 September 1783.

Sing Unto God/Anthem for the Wedding of Frederick, Prince of Wales

It was performed for the royal wedding on 27 April 1736 at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London.

St James' Catholic High School, Colindale

The current headteacher is Mrs. Niamh Arnull (since 2010), a former pupil at the nearby Bishop Douglass School in Finchley.

St James' Church, Cooling

The churchyard provided the inspiration for the opening chapter of Charles Dickens' book Great Expectations, in which the hero of the story, Pip, meets the convict, Magwitch.

St James' Church, Great Packington

The church was built in 1789 to a design by architect Joseph Bonomi for the Earl of Aylesford as a private family chapel.

St James' Church, Whitehaven

The painting was given to the church by the 3rd Earl of Lonsdale, and is said to have come from the Escorial.

St James' Priory, Bristol

The sundial is a block of Bath stone carved with hour lines and medieval Arabic numerals in a style that suggests it was probably made in the 15th century.

By the 17th century it was so prominent that merchant ships sailing in to Bristol for it were frequently attacked by Turkish pirates in the Bristol Channel.

St James's Club

When the pioneer of photography William Fox Talbot (1800–1877) was elected in 1825 to the club at 106 Pall Mall, London, it was using that name.

The club was founded in 1857 by the Liberal statesman the second Earl Granville and by the Marchese d'Azeglio, Minister of Sardinia to the Court of St. James's, after a dispute at the Travellers' Club.

St James's Palace

For most of the time of the personal union between Great Britain (later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) and the Electorate of Hanover (later Kingdom of Hanover) from 1714 until 1837 the ministers of the German Chancery were working in two small rooms within St James's Palace.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, the Royal Philatelic Collection has been housed at St James's Palace, after spending the entire 20th century at Buckingham Palace.

St James's Street

The main gatehouse of the palace is at the southern end of the road, and in the 17th century Clarendon House faced down the street across Piccadilly, located where Albemarle Street is now situated.

St James's University Hospital

All of the Hospital buildings except Chancellor's Wing are named after surrounding streets in the Leeds suburb of Harehills (Chancellor's Wing is named after the then Chancellor of the University of Leeds, HRH The Duchess of Kent, who opened the building in 1972).

Thomas Blood

On the night of 6 December 1670, Blood and his accomplices attacked Ormonde while the latter travelled St James's Street.

Thomas Teddeman

Though this was a major disappointment to Charles II of England, Teddeman's career did not suffer much and he fought, again on the Katherine, the next year as Vice-Admiral of the Blue in the Four Days Battle and as Vice-Admiral of the White in the St James's Day Battle.

Westminster St James

The creation of the parish followed the building of the Church of St James, Piccadilly in 1684 and the parish was also known by the name St James Picadilly.

William Ralston Shedden-Ralston

He devised a novel form of public entertainment, telling stories to large audiences in lecture-halls, making several successful appearances at St. George's and St James's Halls.

William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland

He was baptised at the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace (with the names William Harry which he later changed to William Henry).

William Westwood, 2nd Baron Westwood

After a string of defeats, Newcastle went down 2–1 to Arsenal at St James' Park and hundreds of demonstrators called for the chairman's resignation with angry shouts of Westwood out.


see also

Boodles

Boodle's, a gentlemen's club in St. James's Street, London

Conservative Club

At first, the club met in the Lansdowne Hotel in Dover Street, before taking up rooms in the Royal Hotel at 88 St. James's Street, until the clubhouse's 1845 completion.

Edgar Jacob

His second curacy was at St James's Bermondsey from 1871 until he went to be domestic chaplain to Robert Milman, Bishop of Calcutta in 1872.

Giles Chichester

Since 1969 worked in family business Francis Chichester Ltd (publishers of maps, guides and educational wallcharts), founded by his father Sir Francis Chichester KBE, and still lives in the family home at 9 St James's Place, London SW1.

Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart

Lady Sybil Marjorie Cuffe (1879–1943), married (1) 30 April 1901 William Bayard Cutting (Jnr.) (1878- 1910 of tuberculosis), son of William Bayard Cutting and then secretary to the US embassy to the Court of St. James's, by whom she had one daughter Iris Origo (1902–1988).

Irene Mountbatten, Marchioness of Carisbrooke

She married Alexander Albert Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, son of Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, on 19 July 1917 at St. James's Palace, Chapel Royal, St. James's, London.

John Hodges Benwell

They included two scenes from "Auld Robin Gray"; the "Children in the Wood", engraved by William Sharp; and A St. Giles's Beauty and A St. James's Beauty, both engraved by Bartolozzi.

Joseph Grimaldi Park

The former burial grounds for St James’s Episcopal Chapel (formerly known as the Burial Ground of St James’s) are located within the park, which is named after the pantomime clown Joseph Grimaldi, who is buried there.

Lyndon Brook

In 1951, Brook was asked by Laurence Olivier to join his company at the St James’s Theatre in Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra and George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra.

RIT Capital Partners

RIT Capital Partners has its headquarters in Spencer House, ( St James's, London, England ), one of the last surviving city palaces in London (next door to Bridgewater House, one of the others).

Robert Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell

When solicitor-general he painted in St. James's Park, and he exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery, especially pictures of the neighbourhood of Rosenlaui, Switzerland, where he spent many vacations.

St Andrew's Church, Handsworth

The church was dedicated in 1910 and it was consecrated in 1914 when a parish was assigned from St Mary’s, Handsworth and St James’s, Handsworth.

St James Street

St James's Street, a road in the St James's district of London, England

St. John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland

The first division founded in what was to later become the Irish Free State was the Dublin (St James's Gate) Ambulance Division, formed in 1903 at the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in Dublin, under the guidance of Dr. (later Sir) John Lumsden.

Trinity College Library

The John Stearne Medical Library (JSML), housed at St James's Hospital

Wedding dress of Victoria, Princess Royal

She married Prince Frederick of Prussia, later Frederick III, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, son of Wilhelm I and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, on 25 January 1858 at St. James's Palace, Chapel Royal, St. James's, London, England.

Will Lyons

It was while working for Justerini & Brooks in St James's street that Lyons received the opportunity to sell and taste a great many fine and rare wines particularly Bordeaux and Burgundy.