Great Cumberland Place is a street in the City of Westminster, part of Greater London, England. There is also a hotel bearing the same name on the street.
Great Cumberland Place is a street in the City of Westminster, part of Greater London, England. There is also a hotel bearing the same name on the street.
The street runs from Oxford Street at Marble Arch to George Street at Bryanston Square. [1]
It contains the Western Marble Arch Synagogue, near which stands a statue of Raoul Wallenberg.
Great Cumberland Place [2] is home to The Cumberland Hotel. [3]
The street was the home of Thomas Pinckney while he was the United States ambassador to the Court of St James's. [4]
Sir James Mackintosh lived in Great Cumberland Street, which was later re-numbered as part of Great Cumberland Place. [5]
The residents listed in 1833 were: "Hans Busk, Esq.; Sir Clifford Constable; Sir Frederick Hamilton; Lady C. Underwood; Sir G. Ivison Tapps; Baron Bülow (the Prussian Minister); General Sir R. M'Farlane; Leonard Currie, Esq.; Sir S. B. Fludyer, Bart.; Lady Trollope; Earl of Leitrim; Sir Alexander Johnston; and the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Norwich", and in Great Cumberland Street "Lord Saltoun; Mrs. Portman; John Wells, Esq.; Colonel Sherwood; Captain Richard Manby; John Lodge, Esq.; Major Murray; Robert Cutlar Fergusson, Esq.; John N. McLeod, Esq.; and Lord Bagot". [6]
The explorers James Theodore Bent and Mabel Bent lived first at Number 43 and then Number 13 Great Cumberland Place from the early 1880s until Mabel Bent's death in 1929. [7]
The arts consultant and administrator Adrian Ward-Jackson lived in a one-bedroom flat at No. 37 in the 1980s. [8]
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