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| Name: | Gabain, Ethel Léontine (1883-1950) |
| Brief: | Painter and lithographer, a founding member of the Senefelder Club |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Hampstead Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1921-1950 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gabo, Sir Naum (1890-1977) |
| Brief: | Sculptor, works include Revolving Torsion, a large fountain outside St Thomas Hospital |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Cliff Road Studios |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1973-1977 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gabo, Sir Naum (1890-1977) |
| Brief: | Sculptor, works include Revolving Torsion, a large fountain outside St Thomas Hospital |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 101 Cholmley Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1937-1940 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gabo, Sir Naum (1890-1977) |
| Brief: | Sculptor, works include Revolving Torsion, a large fountain outside St Thomas Hospital |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 11 Lawn Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1935-1936 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gabriel, Edith Mabel (1877-1970) |
| Brief: | Sculptor |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 1 The Mall Studios |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1918-1970 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gadney, Reginald Bernard John (1941-2018) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter, thriller-writer and occasional screenwriter ('Goldeneye', a biopic of author Ian Fleming) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | ~1992 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) |
| Brief: | Portrait and landscape painter considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 67 Hatton Garden |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1746-1749 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gairdner, James (1828-1912) |
| Brief: | Archivist and historian who specialised in 15th-century and early Tudor history |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 31 Carlingford Road |
| Contemp. address: | 5 Carlingford Road |
| Resident: | 1881-1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gaisberg, Frederick William (1873-1951) |
| Brief: | Recording engineer and record company executive who made some of the first recordings of the tenor Enrico Caruso and supervised the construction of Abbey Road Studios |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Avenue Mansions, Finchley Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1915-1925 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gaisberg, Frederick William (1873-1951) |
| Brief: | Recording engineer and record company executive who made some of the first recordings of the tenor Enrico Caruso and supervised the construction of Abbey Road Studios |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 84 Fitzjohn's Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | 70 Fitzjohn's Avenue |
| Resident: | 1912-1913 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gaisberg, Frederick William (1873-1951) |
| Brief: | Recording engineer and record company executive who made some of the first recordings of the tenor Enrico Caruso and supervised the construction of Abbey Road Studios |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 42 Crediton Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939-1951 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor (1906-1963) |
| Brief: | Politician who became leader of the Labour Party when in opposition |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Frognal Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | Frognal End |
| Resident: | 1946-1963 |
| Notes: | GLC blue plaque |
| Name: | Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor (1906-1963) |
| Brief: | Politician who became leader of the Labour Party when in opposition |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 24 Harley Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1935-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor (1906-1963) |
| Brief: | Politician who became leader of the Labour Party when in opposition |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Great Ormond Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1929 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor (1906-1963) |
| Brief: | Politician who became leader of the Labour Party when in opposition |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21 Well Walk |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1946 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gale, Samuel Maurice (1682-1754) |
| Brief: | Antiquary, a founder of the Society of Antiquaries of London |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Rosslyn Hill |
| Contemp. address: | The Chicken House |
| Resident: | 1754 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Galloway, Thomas (1796-1851) |
| Brief: | Mathematician and astronomer, actuary to the Amicable Life Assurance Company of London, worked on probable errors of observation |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 45 Torrington Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1847-1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Galsworthy, John (1867-1933) |
| Brief: | Novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize winner (The Forsyte Saga) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Grove Lodge, Admiral's Walk |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1918-1933 |
| Notes: | LCC blue plaque |
| Name: | Galsworthy, John (1867-1933) |
| Brief: | Novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize winner (The Forsyte Saga) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Cambridge Gate |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1887-1896 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Galt, John (1779-1839) |
| Brief: | Novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. The first novelist to deal with issues of the Industrial Revolution. |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Cartwright Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | 9 Burton Crescent |
| Resident: | 1813-1814 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Galt, John (1779-1839) |
| Brief: | Novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. The first novelist to deal with issues of the Industrial Revolution. |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Tavistock Place |
| Contemp. address: | 32 Tavistock Place |
| Resident: | 1822-1823 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gambart, Jean Joseph Ernest Theodore (1814-1902) |
| Brief: | Art publisher and dealer who dominated the London art world in the C19 |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 62 Avenue Road |
| Contemp. address: | Rosenstead, Avenue Road |
| Resident: | 1862-1882 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gambon, Michael John (1940-2023) |
| Brief: | Actor on stage and screen with 6 decade career. Won 10 major awards and world-wide fame for roles in Wes Anderson films and the Harry Potter film series. Remembered by many for 'The Singing Detective' on BBC TV |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 24 Cranleigh House, Cranleigh Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1945-1953 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gandar, Joseph Fever (1787-1868) |
| Brief: | Prominent Muggletonian, developer of nearby Lodowick and Lansdowne Terraces |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggletonianism |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1851-1868 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garbett, Edward (1817-1887) |
| Brief: | Clergyman, journalist and evangelical apologist, minister of St Bartholomew's, Gray's Inn Road, founder and editor of the Christian Advocate |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Camden Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gardiner, Alfred George (1865-1946) |
| Brief: | Journalist and editor of the Daily News who had a vendetta with Lloyd George |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 613 Finchley Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1908-1922 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gardiner, Margaret Emilia (1904-2005) |
| Brief: | Patron of the arts and left wing political activist |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Downshire Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1937-2005 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gardner, (Leslie) James (1907-1995) |
| Brief: | Exhibition designer for the British museum and major public events. His work included the interior and superstructure for the QE2 |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 144 Haverstock Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1972-1995 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gardner, Dame Frances Violet (1913-1989) |
| Brief: | Cardiologist who introduced angiocardiography to Britain, dean of the RFH medical school |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Fitzroy Lodge, Fitzroy Park |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1977-1989 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gardner, Gerald Brosseau (1884-1964) |
| Brief: | Writer and publicist of the Wicca religion, recognised as the "Father of Wicca" among the neo-pagan and occult communities |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Ridgmount Gardens, flat 47, block 4 |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1945-1950 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garfield, Leon (1921-1996) |
| Brief: | Writer of fiction, mainly for children. 'The God Beneath the Sea' won the Carnegie Medal |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Lindfield Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1949-1951 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garland, Ken (1929-2021) |
| Brief: | Graphic designer, photographer and writer |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 71 Albert Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1966-2021 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garner, Thomas (1839-1906) |
| Brief: | Architect, mainly of churches and church furnishings |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 20 Church Row |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1867-1893 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett [née Bell], Angelica Vanessa (1918-2012) |
| Brief: | Painter and author of Bloomsbury Group memoir 'Deceived with Kindness' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 41 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1943-1945 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, (James Clerk) Maxwell (1880-1958) |
| Brief: | Educationist, physicist and peace campaigner, Secretary of the League of Nations Union |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Gainsborough Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, (James Clerk) Maxwell (1880-1958) |
| Brief: | Educationist, physicist and peace campaigner, Secretary of the League of Nations Union |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21 Well Walk |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Foley Avenue |
| Resident: | 1923-1938 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, David (1892-1981) |
| Brief: | Writer and publisher, member of the Bloomsbury Group, 'Lady into Fox' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Fitzroy Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Garnett, David (1892-1981) |
| Brief: | Writer and publisher, member of the Bloomsbury Group, 'Lady into Fox' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 41 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1943-1945 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, David (1892-1981) |
| Brief: | Writer and publisher, member of the Bloomsbury Group, 'Lady into Fox' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Endsleigh Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1933-1934 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, David (1892-1981) |
| Brief: | Writer and publisher, member of the Bloomsbury Group, 'Lady into Fox' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Grove Place, New End |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, David (1892-1981) |
| Brief: | Writer and publisher, member of the Bloomsbury Group, 'Lady into Fox' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 27 Brunswick Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1923-1924 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Garnett, David (1892-1981) |
| Brief: | Writer and publisher, member of the Bloomsbury Group, 'Lady into Fox' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Great James Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1930-1933 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, David (1892-1981) |
| Brief: | Writer and publisher, member of the Bloomsbury Group, 'Lady into Fox' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 37 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1925-1929 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, Edward William (1868-1937) |
| Brief: | Writer, critic and literary editor. Friend and mentor to contemporary authors including Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence and John Galsworthy |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 24 John Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, Richard (1835-1906) |
| Brief: | Librarian, biographer and poet who was keeper of printed books at the British Museum |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | British Museum, Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, Richard (1835-1906) |
| Brief: | Librarian, biographer and poet who was keeper of printed books at the British Museum |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 27 Tanza Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901-1906 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, Richard (1835-1906) |
| Brief: | Librarian, biographer and poet who was keeper of printed books at the British Museum |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Hastings Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1841 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Garnett, William (1850-1932) |
| Brief: | Physicist and educational administrator who played an important part in reorganizing the University of London |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 50 Downshire Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901-1903 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, William (1850-1932) |
| Brief: | Physicist and educational administrator who played an important part in reorganizing the University of London |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | The Wabe, 66 Redington Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1904-1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, William (1850-1932) |
| Brief: | Physicist and educational administrator who played an important part in reorganizing the University of London |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 The Chestnuts, Branch Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911-1928 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garnett, William (1850-1932) |
| Brief: | Physicist and educational administrator who played an important part in reorganizing the University of London |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 25 Well Walk |
| Contemp. address: | 3 Foley Avenue |
| Resident: | 1900 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Garrett, Agnes (1845-1935) |
| Brief: | Suffragist and interior designer, founder of the Ladies Dwellings Company |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1876-1935 |
| Notes: | English Heritage blue plaque |
| Name: | Garrett, Rhoda (1841-1882) |
| Brief: | Suffragist and interior designer, founder of the Ladies Dwellings Company |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1876-1882 |
| Notes: | English Heritage blue plaque |
| Name: | Garrow, Sir William (1760-1840) |
| Brief: | Barrister, politician and judge who introduced the phrase "presumed innocent until proven guilty", served as Solicitor General and Attorney General |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 25 Bedford Row |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1802-1808 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Garvin, James Louis (1868-1947) |
| Brief: | journalist, author and influential editor of The Observer |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Greville Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911-1922 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gascoyne-Cecil, James Edward Hubert, fourth marquess of Salisbury (1861-1947) |
| Brief: | Statesman who served under Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin, prominent opponents of Indian Home Rule |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot, third marquess of Salisbury [Lord Robert Cecil] (1830-1903) |
| Brief: | Prime Minister and Chancellor of Oxford University |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1860-1862 |
| Notes: | LCC blue plaque |
| Name: | Gaselee, Sir Stephen (1762-1839) |
| Brief: | Judge, vice-president and an active member of the Royal Humane Society |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Montagu Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1817-1839 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gaselee, Sir Stephen (1762-1839) |
| Brief: | Judge, vice-president and an active member of the Royal Humane Society |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 77 Guilford Street |
| Contemp. address: | 7 Upper Guilford Street |
| Resident: | 1807-1814 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gaskill, William (1930-2016) |
| Brief: | Theatre director noted for his productions of Bertolt Brecht and Restoration comedy, artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, co-founder of the Joint Stock Theatre Company |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 124A Leighton Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1981-2010 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gasquet, Francis Neil (1846-1929) |
| Brief: | Cardinal, Benedictine monk and historian, Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives, Librarian of the Vatican Library |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 223 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | 26 Euston Place |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gasquet, Francis Neil (1846-1929) |
| Brief: | Cardinal, Benedictine monk and historian, Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives, Librarian of the Vatican Library |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Harpur Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911-1915 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gasquet, Francis Neil (1846-1929) |
| Brief: | Cardinal, Benedictine monk and historian, Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives, Librarian of the Vatican Library |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Great Ormond Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1897-1907 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gatti, Agostino (1841-1897) |
| Brief: | Restaurateur, theatre manager, co-founder of the Charing Cross and Strand Electricity Supply Corporation |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1879-1897 |
| Notes: | Family home of Gatti, Sir John Maria Emilio (1872-1929) |
| Name: | Gatti, Sir John Maria Emilio (1872-1929) |
| Brief: | Theatre manager, restaurateur, businessman and local government politician |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s) see Gatti, Agostino (1841-1897) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Cambridge Gate |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1906-1923 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gatti, Stefano Faustino (1845-1906) |
| Brief: | Restaurateur, theatre manager, co-founder of the Charing Cross and Strand Electricity Supply Corporation |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1879-1906 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gaugain, Thomas (~1756-~1812) |
| Brief: | Stipple engraver and painter |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Denmark Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1786-1791 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gavron, Robert [Bob] (1930-2015) |
| Brief: | Printer, publisher, politician and philanthropist. A successful businessman who aligned himself with Tony Blair and New Labour |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Millfield Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | ~1990-2015 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Geary, Stephen (1797-1854) |
| Brief: | Architect, inventor, entrepreneur and temperance activist. He designed the Egyptian Avenue and the Terrace Catacombs at Highgate Cemetery and the monument to George IV at King's Cross |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 17 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | 10 Hamilton Place, New Road |
| Resident: | 1835-1841 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Geary, Stephen (1797-1854) |
| Brief: | Architect, inventor, entrepreneur and temperance activist. He designed the Egyptian Avenue and the Terrace Catacombs at Highgate Cemetery and the monument to George IV at King's Cross |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near Pancras Road |
| Contemp. address: | 22 Weston Place |
| Resident: | 1834 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Geary, Stephen (1797-1854) |
| Brief: | Architect, inventor, entrepreneur and temperance activist. He designed the Egyptian Avenue and the Terrace Catacombs at Highgate Cemetery and the monument to George IV at King's Cross |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 209 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | 19 Euston Place |
| Resident: | 1851-1854 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gee, Joshua (1667-1730) |
| Brief: | Writer on trade (The Trade and Navigation of Great Britain Consider'd), landowner and merchant, one of William Penn's mortgagees |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Fenton House |
| Contemp. address: | Ostend House |
| Resident: | 1707-1730 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Geikie, Sir Archibald (1835-1924) |
| Brief: | Geologist and historian, an authority on igneous rocks, president of the Geological Society and the Royal Society |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Chester Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | George, Richard Lloyd, 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1889-1968) |
| Brief: | Soldier and writer whose biography of his father (David Lloyd George) depicted him as an unfeeling libertine |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 King's Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1947-1953 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gerrard, Edward (1810-1910) |
| Brief: | Taxidermist employed by the Zoological Society of London and the British Museum who founded Edward Gerrard & Sons, considered one of the finest taxidermy firms in the UK |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Robert Street |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Robert Street |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gerrard, Edward (1810-1910) |
| Brief: | Taxidermist employed by the Zoological Society of London and the British Museum who founded Edward Gerrard & Sons, considered one of the finest taxidermy firms in the UK |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 61 College Place |
| Contemp. address: | 31 College Place |
| Resident: | 1861-1910 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gertler, Mark (1891-1939) |
| Brief: | Painter. D. H. Lawrence thought 'Merry-Go-Round' "the best modern picture I have seen" |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13A Rudall Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | Penn Studio |
| Resident: | 1915-1932 |
| Notes: | Hampstead Plaque Fund plaque |
| Name: | Gertler, Mark (1891-1939) |
| Brief: | Painter. D. H. Lawrence thought 'Merry-Go-Round' "the best modern picture I have seen" |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 41 Pilgrim's Lane |
| Contemp. address: | 19 Worsley Road |
| Resident: | 1923-1930 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gertler, Mark (1891-1939) |
| Brief: | Painter. D. H. Lawrence thought 'Merry-Go-Round' "the best modern picture I have seen" |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Well Mount Studio |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1932-1933 |
| Notes: | Hampstead Plaque Fund plaque |
| Name: | Gertler, Mark (1891-1939) |
| Brief: | Painter. D. H. Lawrence thought 'Merry-Go-Round' "the best modern picture I have seen" |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Kemplay Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1930 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gertler, Mark (1891-1939) |
| Brief: | Painter. D. H. Lawrence thought 'Merry-Go-Round' "the best modern picture I have seen" |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Grove Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1937-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gertler, Mark (1891-1939) |
| Brief: | Painter. D. H. Lawrence thought 'Merry-Go-Round' "the best modern picture I have seen" |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 53 Haverstock Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1934-1936 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gertler, Mark (1891-1939) |
| Brief: | Painter. D. H. Lawrence thought 'Merry-Go-Round' "the best modern picture I have seen" |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 28 Thurlow Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1920 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibb, Maurice Ernest (1949-2003) |
| Brief: | Musician best known as a member of the pop group Bee Gees |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Priory Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1968-1969 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gibberd, Sir Frederick Ernest (1908-1984) |
| Brief: | Architect, town planner and landscape designer. Major projects include Harlow New Town, Terminal Buildings at Heathrow Airport and the London Central Mosque |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 49 Downshire Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1955-1965 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibbon, Benjamin Phelps (1802-1851) |
| Brief: | Engraver who specialised in animal pictures after Edwin Landseer |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 135 Albany Street |
| Contemp. address: | 89 Albany Street |
| Resident: | 1841-1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gibbons, (Edward) Stanley (1840-1913) |
| Brief: | Postage stamp dealer and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1876-1890 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibbons, Stella Dorothea (1902-1989) |
| Brief: | Writer, journalist and poet, best known for her first novel 'Cold Comfort Farm' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 30 Upper Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1933-1937 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibbons, Stella Dorothea (1902-1989) |
| Brief: | Writer, journalist and poet, best known for her first novel 'Cold Comfort Farm' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21 Malden Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1902-1911 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gibbons, Stella Dorothea (1902-1989) |
| Brief: | Writer, journalist and poet, best known for her first novel 'Cold Comfort Farm' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Oakeshott Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1937-1989 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibbons, Stella Dorothea (1902-1989) |
| Brief: | Writer, journalist and poet, best known for her first novel 'Cold Comfort Farm' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 67 Fitzjohn's Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1930-1932 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibbons, Stella Dorothea (1902-1989) |
| Brief: | Writer, journalist and poet, best known for her first novel 'Cold Comfort Farm' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Vale Cottage, Vale of Health |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1927-1930 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibbs, Alexander (1831-1886) |
| Brief: | Stained glass and tile painter and manufacturer (All Saints, Margaret Street) |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | http://stainedglass.llgc.org.uk/person/196 |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 38 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1858-1876 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibbs, Alexander (1831-1886) |
| Brief: | Stained glass and tile painter and manufacturer (All Saints, Margaret Street) |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | http://stainedglass.llgc.org.uk/person/196 |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 38 Chalk Farm Road |
| Contemp. address: | 2 Harmood Place |
| Resident: | 1841-1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gibbs, Alexander (1831-1886) |
| Brief: | Stained glass and tile painter and manufacturer (All Saints, Margaret Street) |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | http://stainedglass.llgc.org.uk/person/196 |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Bloomsbury street |
| Contemp. address: | 21 Bloomsbury street |
| Resident: | 1876-1886 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibbs, Antony (1756-1815) |
| Brief: | Merchant who founded Antony Gibbs & Sons, a British trading company, with interests spanning cloth, guano, wine and fruit |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://gibbsfamilytree.com/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Powis Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1812-1815 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibbs, Henry Hucks, first Baron Aldenham (1819-1907) |
| Brief: | Banker, businessman and politician. The family firm enjoyed a monopoly on exports to Europe of Peruvian Guano. In politics, he was a strong promoter of bimetallism. |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Powis Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1819-1821 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibbs, Henry Hucks, first Baron Aldenham (1819-1907) |
| Brief: | Banker, businessman and politician. The family firm enjoyed a monopoly on exports to Europe of Peruvian Guano. In politics, he was a strong promoter of bimetallism. |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 11 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1822-1833 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibbs, Henry Hucks, first Baron Aldenham (1819-1907) |
| Brief: | Banker, businessman and politician. The family firm enjoyed a monopoly on exports to Europe of Peruvian Guano. In politics, he was a strong promoter of bimetallism. |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near Greenaway Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | Frognal Park |
| Resident: | 1849-1856 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gibbs, Sir Vicary (1751-1820) |
| Brief: | Judge and politician, known as 'Vinegar Gibbs' because of his caustic wit |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 67 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1810-1820 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gibbs, Sir Vicary (1751-1820) |
| Brief: | Judge and politician, known as 'Vinegar Gibbs' because of his caustic wit |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 43 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | 42 Bedford Square |
| Resident: | 1802-1805 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibson, Thomas Field (1803-1889) |
| Brief: | Geologist, silk manufacturer, Unitarian and a founding Director of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 60 Fitzjohn's Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1889 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson (1878-1962) |
| Brief: | Georgian poet, associated with WWI, "spokesman for the inarticulate poor" |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 26 Nassington Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1934-1938 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gifford, Andrew (1700-1784) |
| Brief: | Baptist minister and numismatist whose collection of coins was purchased by George II for his private cabinet |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near Queen Square |
| Contemp. address: | Brunswick Row |
| Resident: | 1784 |
| Notes: | Demolished, location uncertain |
| Name: | Gilbert, Richard (1794-1852) |
| Brief: | Printer and compiler of 'Clerical Guide or Ecclesiastical Directory' and similar reference works |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 70 Euston Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1852 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck (1836-1911) |
| Brief: | Dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced 14 comic operas |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 South Square, Gray's Inn |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1865-1867 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gilbey, Sir Walter (1831-1914) |
| Brief: | Wine-merchant and horse breeder, Gilbey's warehouse complex and gin distillery was in Camden Town |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Royal College of Physicians |
| Contemp. address: | Cambridge House |
| Resident: | 1885-1910 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gilbey, Sir Walter (1831-1914) |
| Brief: | Wine-merchant and horse breeder, Gilbey's warehouse complex and gin distillery was in Camden Town |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 46 Bedford Way |
| Contemp. address: | 46 Upper Bedford Place |
| Resident: | 1861-1864 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gilchrist [née Burrows], Anne (1828-1885) |
| Brief: | Writer, who completed her husband's biography of William Blake and wrote a biography of Mary Lamb |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | 7 Gower Street |
| Resident: | 1828 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gilchrist [née Burrows], Anne (1828-1885) |
| Brief: | Writer, who completed her husband's biography of William Blake and wrote a biography of Mary Lamb |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Well Road |
| Contemp. address: | 8 Well Road |
| Resident: | 1881-1885 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gilchrist, Constance Macdonald [Connie], Countess of Orkney (1865-1946) |
| Brief: | Artist's model, actress, dancer and singer. Painted by Leighton, Frith, Whistler and others and known as the "original Gaiety Girl" |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near Camley Street |
| Contemp. address: | Winchester Street |
| Resident: | 1865 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain, demolished |
| Name: | Gilchrist, Constance Macdonald [Connie], Countess of Orkney (1865-1946) |
| Brief: | Artist's model, actress, dancer and singer. Painted by Leighton, Frith, Whistler and others and known as the "original Gaiety Girl" |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Bayham Place |
| Contemp. address: | 7 King's Yard |
| Resident: | 1871 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain, demolished |
| Name: | Gilchrist, Constance Macdonald [Connie], Countess of Orkney (1865-1946) |
| Brief: | Artist's model, actress, dancer and singer. Painted by Leighton, Frith, Whistler and others and known as the "original Gaiety Girl" |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 33 Pond Street |
| Contemp. address: | 10 Pond Street |
| Resident: | 1881-1885 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton (1882-1940) |
| Brief: | Sculptor, typeface designer and printmaker. His achievements include the sculptures decorating the BBC HQ, Gill Sans and Perpetua typefaces, and the engravings for the books of the Golden Cockerel Press |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1902-1903 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gill, David Ian (1928-1997) |
| Brief: | Film historian, preservationist and writer, co-founder of Photoplay Productions which restored Abel Gance's epic Napoléon |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21 Upper Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1956-1963 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gill, Kenneth [Ken] (1927-2009) |
| Brief: | Trade union leader who became president of the TUC, committed Communist who was a lifelong supporter of the Soviet Union |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 42 Witley Court, Coram Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 2006-2009 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gillies, Harold (1882-1960) |
| Brief: | Father of modern plastic surgery |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 71 Frognal |
| Contemp. address: | 59 Frognal |
| Resident: | 1925-1941 |
| Notes: | EH blue plaque |
| Name: | Gillies, Margaret (1803-1887) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits and miniatures |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 40 Fortess Road |
| Contemp. address: | 5 Fortess Terrace |
| Resident: | 1841-1844 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gillies, Margaret (1803-1887) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits and miniatures |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Fitzroy Park |
| Contemp. address: | Hillside |
| Resident: | 1844-1854 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gillies, Margaret (1803-1887) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits and miniatures |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 25 Church Row |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861-1887 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gilliland, Thomas (1774-1842) |
| Brief: | Journalist and theatre critic, his 1806 pamphlet 'Diamond cut Diamond' defended the future George IV, for which the Prince gave him 500 guineas |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 51 Parkway |
| Contemp. address: | 91 Park Street |
| Resident: | 1842 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gilman, Harold John Wilde (1876-1919) |
| Brief: | Painter of interiors, portraits and landscapes, a founder-member of the Camden Town Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 47 Maple Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1914-1917 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gilman, Harold John Wilde (1876-1919) |
| Brief: | Painter of interiors, portraits and landscapes, a founder-member of the Camden Town Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 33 Parliament Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1917-1919 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gilpin, Charles (1815-1874) |
| Brief: | Quaker, orator, politician, publisher and railway director |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1858-1874 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gilroy [née Answick], Beryl Agatha (1924-2001) |
| Brief: | Educator, novelist, ethno-psychotherapist and poet, Camden's first Black head teacher |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 86 Messina Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1993-2001 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gimson, Ernest William (1864-1919) |
| Brief: | Furniture designer and architect, one of the most influential designers of the English Arts and Crafts movement |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Raymond Buildings |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1891-1894 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ginner, (Isaac) Charles (1878-1952) |
| Brief: | Painter of landscape and urban subjects who was a key member of the Camden Town Group. |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Crestfield Street |
| Contemp. address: | 3 Chesterfield Street |
| Resident: | 1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ginner, (Isaac) Charles (1878-1952) |
| Brief: | Painter of landscape and urban subjects who was a key member of the Camden Town Group. |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 61 Hampstead High Street |
| Contemp. address: | 61 High Street |
| Resident: | 1929-1936 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ginsberg, Morris (1889-1970) |
| Brief: | Sociologist, chairman and president of the British Sociological Association |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Redington Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1937-1940 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ginsberg, Morris (1889-1970) |
| Brief: | Sociologist, chairman and president of the British Sociological Association |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Millfield Lane |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1952-1970 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Girardot, Edme [Ernest] Gustave (1840-1904) |
| Brief: | Painter of genre pictures and portraits |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Regent's Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | 25 Queen's Road |
| Resident: | 1860-1862 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Girardot, Edme [Ernest] Gustave (1840-1904) |
| Brief: | Painter of genre pictures and portraits |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 34 Gloucester Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | 38 Gloucester Road |
| Resident: | 1863 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Girardot, Edme [Ernest] Gustave (1840-1904) |
| Brief: | Painter of genre pictures and portraits |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 60 King Henry's Road |
| Contemp. address: | 10 Myra Villas |
| Resident: | 1867-1874 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Girardot, Edme [Ernest] Gustave (1840-1904) |
| Brief: | Painter of genre pictures and portraits |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Lawn Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1876-1880 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Girling, Sheila May, Lady Caro (1924-2015) |
| Brief: | Artist in painting, collage and clay, one of the first British artists to use acrylic |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 111 Frognal |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1956-2015 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Girolami, Sir Paul (1926-2023) |
| Brief: | Accountant who became innovative chairman and CEO of Glaxo |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 24 Marquis Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939-1960 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gissing, George Robert (1857-1903) |
| Brief: | Novelist who wrote of the challenges of living in poverty (New Grub Street) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 28 7-11 (2004) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Colville Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1878 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gissing, George Robert (1857-1903) |
| Brief: | Novelist who wrote of the challenges of living in poverty (New Grub Street) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 28 7-11 (2004) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 70 Huntley Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1879 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gissing, George Robert (1857-1903) |
| Brief: | Novelist who wrote of the challenges of living in poverty (New Grub Street) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 28 7-11 (2004) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 31 Gower Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1878 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gissing, George Robert (1857-1903) |
| Brief: | Novelist who wrote of the challenges of living in poverty (New Grub Street) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 28 7-11 (2004) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Huntley Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1879 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gissing, George Robert (1857-1903) |
| Brief: | Novelist who wrote of the challenges of living in poverty (New Grub Street) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 28 7-11 (2004) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 44 Swinton Street |
| Contemp. address: | 62 Swinton Street |
| Resident: | 1877 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gissing, George Robert (1857-1903) |
| Brief: | Novelist who wrote of the challenges of living in poverty (New Grub Street) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 28 7-11 (2004) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | ~8 Varndell Street |
| Contemp. address: | 38 Edward Street |
| Resident: | 1879 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gissing, George Robert (1857-1903) |
| Brief: | Novelist who wrote of the challenges of living in poverty (New Grub Street) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 28 7-11 (2004) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Gower Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1881 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gissing, George Robert (1857-1903) |
| Brief: | Novelist who wrote of the challenges of living in poverty (New Grub Street) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 28 7-11 (2004) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Mackworth Street |
| Contemp. address: | 18 Rutland Street |
| Resident: | 1884 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gitana, Gertie [born Gertrude Mary Astbury] (1887-1957) |
| Brief: | Music hall entertainer, singing, tap dancing, yodelling and playing the saxophone. Best remembered for 'Nellie Dean' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 68A Haverstock Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1957 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gladstone, Reginald John (1865-1947) |
| Brief: | Anatomist and embryologist who contributed the article on "The Brain" to Encyclopædia Britannica |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Gloucester Gate |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Gloucester Gate |
| Resident: | 1901 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gladstone, Reginald John (1865-1947) |
| Brief: | Anatomist and embryologist who contributed the article on "The Brain" to Encyclopædia Britannica |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Regent's Park Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1918-1930 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Glanville, Stephen Ranulph Kingdon (1900-1956) |
| Brief: | Historian, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and UCL |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 2, Isokon, Lawn Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1944-1947 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Glasse [née Allgood], Hannah (1708-1770) |
| Brief: | Cookery writer whose 'The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy' was a best seller. She also opened a opened a costumier's shop in Tavistock Street |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Greville Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1708-1770 (not continuous) |
| Notes: | Demolished, location uncertain |
| Name: | Gluck [real name Hannah Gluckstein] (1895-1978) |
| Brief: | Painter, gender-nonconforming, noted for portraits and floral paintings |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Bolton House, Windmill Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1926-1944 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gluck [real name Hannah Gluckstein] (1895-1978) |
| Brief: | Painter, gender-nonconforming, noted for portraits and floral paintings |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 32 Compayne Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1897-1901 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gluck [real name Hannah Gluckstein] (1895-1978) |
| Brief: | Painter, gender-nonconforming, noted for portraits and floral paintings |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 73 Avenue Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Glyn, Sir Richard, first baronet (1711-1773) |
| Brief: | Banker and politician who co-founded the bank that evolved into Williams & Glyn's. Served as Lord Mayor of London and was MP for the City of London |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Hatton Garden |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1711 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Glynn, John (1722-1779) |
| Brief: | Lawyer and radical MP who supported American independence |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 41 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | 40 Bedford Square |
| Resident: | 1779 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Glynne-Jones [née Davies], Dilys Lloyd (1857-1932) |
| Brief: | Educationist who played the leading role in the formation of the Association for Promoting the Education of Girls in Wales |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 208 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861-1884 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Godlee, Sir Rickman John, baronet (1849-1925) |
| Brief: | Surgeon who performed the first operation for the removal of a tumour from the brain, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, surgeon to the household of Queen Victoria |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Queen Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1849 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Godwin, Edward William (1833-1886) |
| Brief: | Architect and designer, built Northampton Guildhall and several houses in Tite Street, including one for James Whistler |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Taviton Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1875 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Godwin, Edward William (1833-1886) |
| Brief: | Architect and designer, built Northampton Guildhall and several houses in Tite Street, including one for James Whistler |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 197 Albany Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1869-1872 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Godwin, William (1756-1836) |
| Brief: | Journalist, political philosopher and novelist (Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Oakshott Court |
| Contemp. address: | 29 The Polygon |
| Resident: | 1797-1807 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Godwin, William (1756-1836) |
| Brief: | Journalist, political philosopher and novelist (Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 44 Gower Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1827-1833 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Godwin, William (1756-1836) |
| Brief: | Journalist, political philosopher and novelist (Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | ~48 Chalton Street |
| Contemp. address: | 25 Chalton Street |
| Resident: | 1792 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gold, Harry [real name Hyman Goldberg] (1907-2005) |
| Brief: | Dixieland jazz saxophonist and bandleader, his "The Pieces of Eight" performed through WWII |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Dartmouth Chambers, 8 Theobalds Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1942-2005 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gold, Sir Charles (1837-1924) |
| Brief: | Liberal Party politician and director of W. & A. Gilbey |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Cumberland Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | 17 Cumberland Terrace |
| Resident: | 1881-1901 |
| Notes: | Rebuilt as flats behind facade |
| Name: | Goldfinger, Ernö (1902-1987) |
| Brief: | Architect and designer of furniture, key member of the Modernist movement, designed 1-3 Willow Road, now NT |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Willow Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939-1987 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Golding, Richard (1785-1865) |
| Brief: | Engraver |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | ~119 Chalton Street |
| Contemp. address: | 17 Stibbington Street |
| Resident: | 1865 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Golding, Richard (1785-1865) |
| Brief: | Engraver |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Pancras Road |
| Contemp. address: | 2 Eve Terrace |
| Resident: | 1841-1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Goldring, Douglas (1887-1960) |
| Brief: | Writer and journalist who held anti-war, anti-imperialist, socialist views, Secretary of the Georgian Society |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Brunswick Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1930-1931 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Goldschmidt, Berthold (1903-1996) |
| Brief: | Composer and conductor who gave the first complete British performances of Mahler's third and tenth symphonies |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13B Belsize Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1948-1996 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Goldstücker, Theodor H. (1821-1872) |
| Brief: | Orientalist, professor of Sanskrit at UCL |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 18 Chalcot Square |
| Contemp. address: | 14 St George's Square |
| Resident: | 1865-1872 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gollancz, Sir Israel (1863-1930) |
| Brief: | Scholar of early English literature and of Shakespeare, Professor of English Language and Literature at KCL |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 38 Shoot-up Hill |
| Contemp. address: | Tan-y-bryn |
| Resident: | 1901 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gombrich, Sir Ernst Hans Josef (1909-2001) |
| Brief: | Art historian (The Story of Art) |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Briardale Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1952-2001 |
| Notes: | EH blue plaque |
| Name: | Gonson, Sir John (~1676-1765) |
| Brief: | Magistrate noted for his enthusiasm for raiding brothels and for passing harsh sentences. Immortalised by his inclusion in Hogarth's 'Harlot's Progress' |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Keeley Street |
| Contemp. address: | Little Wild Street |
| Resident: | 1765 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Good, Joseph Henry (1775-1857) |
| Brief: | Architect, designed Armourers' Hall in Coleman Street, surveyor to the Thavies estate and the parish of St Andrew's, Holborn |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 75 Hatton Garden |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1812-1831 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Goodall, Edward (1795-1870) |
| Brief: | Engraver, best known for his plates after J. M. W. Turner |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | http://www.goodallartists.ca/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Albert Street |
| Contemp. address: | Mornington Grove Cottage |
| Resident: | 1827-1865 |
| Notes: | Demolished, family home of Goodall, Frederick (1822-1904), Goodall, Walter (1830-1889) and Goodall, Edward Angelo [not Alfred] (1819-1908) |
| Name: | Goodall, Edward (1795-1870) |
| Brief: | Engraver, best known for his plates after J. M. W. Turner |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | http://www.goodallartists.ca/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 38 Camden High Street |
| Contemp. address: | 11 Lower Pratt Place |
| Resident: | 1823-1827 |
| Notes: | Family home of Goodall, Frederick (1822-1904) |
| Name: | Goodall, Edward (1795-1870) |
| Brief: | Engraver, best known for his plates after J. M. W. Turner |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | http://www.goodallartists.ca/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 40 Arlington Road |
| Contemp. address: | 20 Arlington Street |
| Resident: | 1819-1823 |
| Notes: | Family home of Goodall, Frederick (1822-1904) |
| Name: | Goodall, Edward (1795-1870) |
| Brief: | Engraver, best known for his plates after J. M. W. Turner |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | http://www.goodallartists.ca/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 148 Hampstead Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1870 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Goodall, Edward Angelo [not Alfred] (1819-1908) |
| Brief: | Landscape and orientalist painter, travelled widely and kept a journal during an expedition to British Guiana, war artist in the Crimea for ILN |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | For family homes, see Goodall, Edward (1795-1870) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 57 Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | 3 Fitzroy Road |
| Resident: | 1865-1908 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Goodall, Edward Angelo [not Alfred] (1819-1908) |
| Brief: | Landscape and orientalist painter, travelled widely and kept a journal during an expedition to British Guiana, war artist in the Crimea for ILN |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | For family homes, see Goodall, Edward (1795-1870) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 28 Chalcot Square |
| Contemp. address: | 24 St George's Square |
| Resident: | 1859-1862 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Goodall, Frederick (1822-1904) |
| Brief: | Painter who exhibited 170 works at the Royal Academy and became very wealthy |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s), see Goodall, Edward (1795-1870) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 62 Avenue Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1883-1901 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Goodall, Frederick (1822-1904) |
| Brief: | Painter who exhibited 170 works at the Royal Academy and became very wealthy |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s), see Goodall, Edward (1795-1870) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Albert Street |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Albert Street |
| Resident: | 1846-1849 |
| Notes: | Demolished, family home of Goodall, Frederick Trevelyan (1847-1871) |
| Name: | Goodall, Frederick (1822-1904) |
| Brief: | Painter who exhibited 170 works at the Royal Academy and became very wealthy |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s), see Goodall, Edward (1795-1870) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Camden Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1849-1871 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Goodall, Frederick (1822-1904) |
| Brief: | Painter who exhibited 170 works at the Royal Academy and became very wealthy |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s), see Goodall, Edward (1795-1870) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 36 Goldhurst Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1902-1904 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Goodall, Frederick Trevelyan (1847-1871) |
| Brief: | Painter, RA silver medal in 1866 and a gold medals in 1867 & 1869 |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family homes, see Goodall, Frederick (1822-1904) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Camden Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1849-1871 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Goodall, Walter (1830-1889) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter, mainly idealized scenes of rural life |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s) see Goodall, Edward (1795-1870) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 25 Howland Street |
| Contemp. address: | 13 Howland Street |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Goodman, Geoffrey George (1922-2013) |
| Brief: | Journalist, broadcaster and writer, industrial editor for the Daily Mirror with close ties to the Labour party |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 33 Greenland Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Goodman, Geoffrey George (1922-2013) |
| Brief: | Journalist, broadcaster and writer, industrial editor for the Daily Mirror with close ties to the Labour party |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 27A Camden Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1945 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Goodstein, (Reuben) Louis (1912-1985) |
| Brief: | Mathematician, a leading figure in the advancement of mathematical logic and mathematics education |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 133 Albert Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1912 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Goodwin, Francis (1784-1835) |
| Brief: | Architect who completed nine commissioners' churches but failed to build a 'Grand National Cemetery' to be laid out on Primrose Hill |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Gordon Mansions, Torrington Place |
| Contemp. address: | 29 Francis Street |
| Resident: | 1821-1829 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Goodyear, Joseph (1797-1839) |
| Brief: | Engraver |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 137 St Pancras Way |
| Contemp. address: | 8 Brecknock Terrace |
| Resident: | 1839 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Goold-Verschoyle, Brian (1912-1942) |
| Brief: | Spy for the Soviet NKVD in Britain and Spain who became a victim of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Lawn Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1935-1936 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Goossens, Sir Eugene Aynsley (1893-1962) |
| Brief: | Conductor and composer whose reputation suffered from a scandalous affair with the so-called "Witch of Kings Cross" |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Rochester Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1893 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Gordine, Dora (1895-1991) |
| Brief: | Figurative sculptor who specialised in portrait busts |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Taviton Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | ~1926 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gordon, Robert (1703-1779) |
| Brief: | Jacobite sympathizer and the last bishop of the nonjuring Church of England |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | ~104 Theobalds Road |
| Contemp. address: | 51 Theobalds Road |
| Resident: | 1740-1779 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gore, Spencer Frederick (1878-1914) |
| Brief: | Painter, member of Camden Town Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 31 Mornington Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1909-1912 |
| Notes: | EH blue plaque |
| Name: | Gore, Spencer Frederick (1878-1914) |
| Brief: | Painter, member of Camden Town Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Granby Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | 15 Granby Street |
| Resident: | 1907-1909 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gore, Spencer Frederick (1878-1914) |
| Brief: | Painter, member of Camden Town Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Oxenholme Estate |
| Contemp. address: | 2 Houghton Place |
| Resident: | 1912 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gore-Booth, Eva Selina (1870-1926) |
| Brief: | Poet, theologian, dramatist, suffragist, social worker and labour activist |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 31 16-18 (2007) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 Frognal Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1923-1926 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gorer, Peter Alfred Isaac (1907-1961) |
| Brief: | Immunologist and geneticist who made major contributions to the study of organ and tissue graft rejection |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | The Elms, Fitzroy Park |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1930-1947 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gosling, Raymond George (1926-2015) |
| Brief: | Biophysicist member of the King's College group whose X-ray diffraction patterns were crucial to the elucidation of the structure of DNA |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 41 Falkland Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1926 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gosse, (Laura) Sylvia (1881-1968) |
| Brief: | Painter, printmaker and teacher, close associate of Walter Sickert |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Cantelowes Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | 163 Camden Road |
| Resident: | 1930-1935 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gosse, (Laura) Sylvia (1881-1968) |
| Brief: | Painter, printmaker and teacher, close associate of Walter Sickert |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Camden Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1936-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gosse, (Laura) Sylvia (1881-1968) |
| Brief: | Painter, printmaker and teacher, close associate of Walter Sickert |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 78 Belsize Park Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1940-1952 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gotch, Thomas Cooper (1854-1931) |
| Brief: | Painter and book illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 86 Fellows Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1887-1888 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gothard, Michael Alan (1939-1992) |
| Brief: | Actor, remembered as the Witch Hunter in Ken Russell's 'The Devils' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 18 Shirlock Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1992 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gough, Alexander Dick (1804-1871) |
| Brief: | Architect, works include the Islington Literary and Scientific Institution (now the Almeida Theatre), Milner Square and the restoration of St Pancras Old Church |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Purchese Street |
| Contemp. address: | Middlesex Street |
| Resident: | 1804 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain, demolished |
| Name: | Gough, Alexander Dick (1804-1871) |
| Brief: | Architect, works include the Islington Literary and Scientific Institution (now the Almeida Theatre), Milner Square and the restoration of St Pancras Old Church |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Cosmo Place |
| Contemp. address: | 4 Southampton Court |
| Resident: | 1832-1839 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gould, John (1804-1881) |
| Brief: | Ornithologist, taxidermist to London Zoo (stuffed the first giraffe to arrive in England), and publisher |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 23 Bloomsbury Street |
| Contemp. address: | 26 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square |
| Resident: | 1861-1881 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gould, John (1804-1881) |
| Brief: | Ornithologist, taxidermist to London Zoo (stuffed the first giraffe to arrive in England), and publisher |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 74 Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gould, Philip, Baron Gould of Brookwood (1950-2011) |
| Brief: | Advertising executive and political strategist for the Labour party |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Park Square East |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 2005-2011 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gow, Andrew Carrick (1848-1920) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits and scenes from British and European history, became Keeper of the Royal Academy |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1875-1888 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gow, Andrew Carrick (1848-1920) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits and scenes from British and European history, became Keeper of the Royal Academy |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 28 Argyle Street |
| Contemp. address: | 13 Argyle Street |
| Resident: | 1859-1862 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gow, Andrew Carrick (1848-1920) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits and scenes from British and European history, became Keeper of the Royal Academy |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 97 Southampton Row |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1866-1874 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gow, Andrew Sydenham Farrar (1886-1978) |
| Brief: | Classical scholar known for his dryness and caustic wit |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 100 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1886 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gowers, Sir Ernest Arthur (1880-1966) |
| Brief: | Civil servant and author, best remembered for 'Plain Words' and his revision of Fowler's 'Modern English Usage' |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Chester Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1931-1936 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gowing, Sir Lawrence Burnett (1918-1991) |
| Brief: | Painter and art historian, member of the Euston Road School |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 88 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1940 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gowing, Sir Lawrence Burnett (1918-1991) |
| Brief: | Painter and art historian, member of the Euston Road School |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 17 Percy Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1953-1962 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Graham, David Michael Gordon (1940-2008) |
| Brief: | Guitarist who was one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival, best known for his acoustic instrumental, 'Anji' and for popularizing DADGAD tuning |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 11 Lyme Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1983-2008 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Graham, Rose (1875-1963) |
| Brief: | Historian who became the first female president of the British Archaeological Association |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 St Andrew's Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1875-1881 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Graham, Sir Robert (1744-1836) |
| Brief: | Judge who owned most of the still rural hamlet of Dalston |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 36 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1821-1833 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Graham, Thomas (1805-1869) |
| Brief: | Chemist known for his pioneering work in dialysis, the diffusion of gases and colloids. First President of the Chemical Society of London. Master of the Mint. |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1850-1869 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Graham, Thomas (1805-1869) |
| Brief: | Chemist known for his pioneering work in dialysis, the diffusion of gases and colloids. First President of the Chemical Society of London. Master of the Mint. |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Torrington Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1837-1849 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Graham, Thomas Alexander Ferguson (1840-1906) |
| Brief: | Scottish high Victorian artist of 'the Scott Lauder school' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 37 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1863-1865 |
| Notes: | Rebuilt in facsimile |
| Name: | Graham, Thomas Alexander Ferguson (1840-1906) |
| Brief: | Scottish high Victorian artist of 'the Scott Lauder school' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 139 Gloucester Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | 6 Fitzroy Terrace |
| Resident: | 1867-1869 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Graham, Thomas Alexander Ferguson (1840-1906) |
| Brief: | Scottish high Victorian artist of 'the Scott Lauder school' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 36 Gloucester Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | 36 Gloucester Road |
| Resident: | 1871 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Graham, Thomas Alexander Ferguson (1840-1906) |
| Brief: | Scottish high Victorian artist of 'the Scott Lauder school' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 98 Fellows Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1886-1895 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Graham, Thomas Alexander Ferguson (1840-1906) |
| Brief: | Scottish high Victorian artist of 'the Scott Lauder school' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 96 Fellows Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901-1906 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grant, Charles (1746-1823) |
| Brief: | Chairman of the British East India Company and MP. An energetic member of the Clapham Sect, a group of social activists who spoke out about the moral imperative to end slavery |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 40 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1823 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978) |
| Brief: | Painter and decorative artist, member of the Bloomsbury Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 28 Percy Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1955-1961 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978) |
| Brief: | Painter and decorative artist, member of the Bloomsbury Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 46 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1914-1925 (not continuous) |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978) |
| Brief: | Painter and decorative artist, member of the Bloomsbury Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 37 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1922-1929 (not continuous) |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978) |
| Brief: | Painter and decorative artist, member of the Bloomsbury Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 50 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1920-1931 (not continuous) |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978) |
| Brief: | Painter and decorative artist, member of the Bloomsbury Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Fitzroy Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1923-1938 |
| Notes: | Occasional pied-a-terre?, demolished |
| Name: | Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978) |
| Brief: | Painter and decorative artist, member of the Bloomsbury Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1909-1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978) |
| Brief: | Painter and decorative artist, member of the Bloomsbury Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 38 Brunswick Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911-1914 |
| Notes: | Marchmont Association plaque, demolished |
| Name: | Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978) |
| Brief: | Painter and decorative artist, member of the Bloomsbury Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 143 Fellows Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1907-1910 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (1885-1978) |
| Brief: | Painter and decorative artist, member of the Bloomsbury Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 36 Regent Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1919-1920 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Grant, Robert Edmond (1793-1874) |
| Brief: | Anatomist and zoologist, first Professor of Comparative Anatomy at U. of London and Fullerian professor of physiology at the RI. The Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy is named after him. |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Euston Station site |
| Contemp. address: | 2 Euston Grove |
| Resident: | 1858-1874 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Grant, Robert Edmond (1793-1874) |
| Brief: | Anatomist and zoologist, first Professor of Comparative Anatomy at U. of London and Fullerian professor of physiology at the RI. The Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy is named after him. |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Grafton Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Grant, Sir Francis (1803-1878) |
| Brief: | Portrait and sporting painter whose many subjects included Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, aristocracy and politicians |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Park Village West |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1835-1840 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grant, Sir Thomas Tassell (1795-1859) |
| Brief: | Inventor whose inventions included machinery for making ship's biscuits and a desalination plant for use at sea |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Chester Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1852-1859 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Granville-Barker, Harley (1877-1946) |
| Brief: | Actor, theatre director and playwright, a major figure in British theatre in the Edwardian and inter-war periods |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 32 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1918 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Graves, Clotilde Augusta Inez Mary (Clo.) (1863-1932) |
| Brief: | Playwright and novelist (pen name Richard Dehan), her best know work is 'The Dop Doctor' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 England's Lane |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Graves, Clotilde Augusta Inez Mary (Clo.) (1863-1932) |
| Brief: | Playwright and novelist (pen name Richard Dehan), her best know work is 'The Dop Doctor' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Primrose Hill Studios, Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1895-1898 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Graves, Robert (1798-1873) |
| Brief: | Engraver, progenitor of a family of engravers, printsellers, and writers on art |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Grove Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1855-1873 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Graves, Robert (1798-1873) |
| Brief: | Engraver, progenitor of a family of engravers, printsellers, and writers on art |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Grove Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1837-1851 (possibly not continuous) |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Graves, Robert (1798-1873) |
| Brief: | Engraver, progenitor of a family of engravers, printsellers, and writers on art |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 69 Eversholt Street |
| Contemp. address: | 43 Seymour Street |
| Resident: | 1827 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gray [née Smith], Maria Emma (1787-1876) |
| Brief: | Conchologist, algologist and scientific illustrator |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | British Museum, Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861-1875 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gray [née Smith], Maria Emma (1787-1876) |
| Brief: | Conchologist, algologist and scientific illustrator |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 43 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1876 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gray, Dulcie [real name Dulcie Winifred Catherine Savage Bailey] (1915-2011) |
| Brief: | Singer and actress on stage, screen and television, a mystery writer and lepidopterist |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 39 Chester Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1950-1961 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gray, Dulcie [real name Dulcie Winifred Catherine Savage Bailey] (1915-2011) |
| Brief: | Singer and actress on stage, screen and television, a mystery writer and lepidopterist |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Cumberland Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1963-1965 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gray, John (1807-1875) |
| Brief: | Legal writer and lawyer who took part in the celebrated prosecution of Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Gloucester Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Gloucester Road |
| Resident: | 1875 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gray, John (1807-1875) |
| Brief: | Legal writer and lawyer who took part in the celebrated prosecution of Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Gloucester Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gray, John Edward (1800-1875) |
| Brief: | Zoologist, wrote nearly 500 papers, keeper of zoology at the British Museum |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Boswell Street |
| Contemp. address: | Devonshire Street |
| Resident: | 1800-1806 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Gray, John Edward (1800-1875) |
| Brief: | Zoologist, wrote nearly 500 papers, keeper of zoology at the British Museum |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | British Museum, Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861-1875 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gray, Milner Connorton (1899-1997) |
| Brief: | Artist and designer, one of the key figures of British industrial design in the C20, founder member of the Society of Industrial Artists |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Holly Mount |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939-1993 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gray, Milner Connorton (1899-1997) |
| Brief: | Artist and designer, one of the key figures of British industrial design in the C20, founder member of the Society of Industrial Artists |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 138 Greenhill, Hampstead High Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1937-1940 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gray, Samuel Frederick (1766-1828) |
| Brief: | Naturalist and pharmacologist, published The Natural Arrangement of British Plants in 1821 |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/streets/devonshire_street.htm |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Boswell Street |
| Contemp. address: | Devonshire Street |
| Resident: | 1800-1806 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Gray, Sir Archibald Montague Henry (1880-1967) |
| Brief: | Dermatologist, consulting physician at UCH and GOSH, editor of the British Journal of Dermatology |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Alvanley Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1952-1967 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gray, Sir Archibald Montague Henry (1880-1967) |
| Brief: | Dermatologist, consulting physician at UCH and GOSH, editor of the British Journal of Dermatology |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Compayne Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gray, Sir Archibald Montague Henry (1880-1967) |
| Brief: | Dermatologist, consulting physician at UCH and GOSH, editor of the British Journal of Dermatology |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Maresfield Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939-1949 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) |
| Brief: | Classical scholar and poet (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Southampton Row |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1759-1761 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain, demolished |
| Name: | Greaves, James Pierrepont (1777-1842) |
| Brief: | Mystic, educational reformer, socialist and progressive thinker. He described himself as a "sacred socialist" and was an advocate of vegetarianism |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 49 Burton Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1842 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Green [née Wood], Mary Anne Everett (1818-1895) |
| Brief: | Historian who edited 41 volumes of abstracts of state papers, known as Calendars, helping to create a centralised national archive |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 100 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | 7 Upper Gower Street |
| Resident: | 1850-1895 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Green, Anthony Eric Sandall (1939-2023) |
| Brief: | Painter and printmaker best known for depictions of his own middle-class domestic life |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | http://www.anthonygreen.org.uk/biography.html |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 17 Lissenden Mansions, Lissenden Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939-1990 |
| Notes: | Lissenden Gardens Tenants Assoc. plaque |
| Name: | Green, Benjamin Richard (1807-1876) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter and author who specialised in portraits, many of them miniatures |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 41 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1854-1871 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Green, Benjamin Richard (1807-1876) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter and author who specialised in portraits, many of them miniatures |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 87 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | 62 Charlotte Street |
| Resident: | 1844-1853 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Green, Charles (1840-1898) |
| Brief: | Painter and a leading member of the group of book illustrators who were then collectively known as 'The New Men of the Sixties' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/green/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 78 Parkhill Road |
| Contemp. address: | 78 Park Road |
| Resident: | 1874-1881 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Green, Charles (1840-1898) |
| Brief: | Painter and a leading member of the group of book illustrators who were then collectively known as 'The New Men of the Sixties' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/green/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Hampstead Hill Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | Charlecote, Hampstead Hill Gardens |
| Resident: | 1881-1898 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Green, Charles (1840-1898) |
| Brief: | Painter and a leading member of the group of book illustrators who were then collectively known as 'The New Men of the Sixties' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/green/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 183 St Pancras Way |
| Contemp. address: | 24 Brecknock Crescent |
| Resident: | 1870-1873 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Green, Charles (1840-1898) |
| Brief: | Painter and a leading member of the group of book illustrators who were then collectively known as 'The New Men of the Sixties' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/green/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Well Walk |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1840-1841 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Green, Danny [born Daniel Glinski] (1903-1973) |
| Brief: | Actor, best remembered for slow-witted ex-boxer "One-Round" Lawson in 'The Ladykillers' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 193 Goldhurst Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1946-1958 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Green, Henry Towneley (1836-1899) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator who contributed to leading periodicals such as 'The Graphic' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/townleygreen/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 78 Parkhill Road |
| Contemp. address: | 78 Park Road |
| Resident: | 1873-1881 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Green, Henry Towneley (1836-1899) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator who contributed to leading periodicals such as 'The Graphic' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/townleygreen/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Hampstead Hill Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | Charlecote, Hampstead Hill Gardens |
| Resident: | 1891-1899 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Green, Henry Towneley (1836-1899) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator who contributed to leading periodicals such as 'The Graphic' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/townleygreen/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 74 St Pancras Way |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Camden Cottages |
| Resident: | 1871-1872 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Green, Henry Towneley (1836-1899) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator who contributed to leading periodicals such as 'The Graphic' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/townleygreen/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Well Walk |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1836-1841 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Green, Henry Towneley (1836-1899) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator who contributed to leading periodicals such as 'The Graphic' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/townleygreen/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 183 St Pancras Way |
| Contemp. address: | 24 Brecknock Crescent |
| Resident: | 1868-1869 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Green, James (1771-1834) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter, especially miniatures and watercolours |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 South Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1827-1834 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Green, Joseph Henry (1791-1863) |
| Brief: | Surgeon, President of the College of Surgeons, literary executor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge who tried to connect science with the philosophy of Coleridge |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Lincoln's Inn Fields |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1816-1824 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Greenaway, Catherine [Kate] (1846-1901) |
| Brief: | Artist best known for her children's book illustrations |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/greenaway/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 39 Frognal |
| Contemp. address: | 50 Frognal |
| Resident: | 1885-1901 |
| Notes: | LCC blue plaque |
| Name: | Greene, (Henry) Graham (1904-1991) |
| Brief: | Writer and journalist regarded a major 20th-century novelist, winner of many literary awards and the Order of Merit |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Gower Mews |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1940-1944 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Greene, (Henry) Graham (1904-1991) |
| Brief: | Writer and journalist regarded a major 20th-century novelist, winner of many literary awards and the Order of Merit |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1944-1945 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Greene, (Henry) Graham (1904-1991) |
| Brief: | Writer and journalist regarded a major 20th-century novelist, winner of many literary awards and the Order of Merit |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Mecklenburgh Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939-1940 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Greene, Benjamin (1780-1860) |
| Brief: | Brewer who founded Greene King |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 45 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1841-1860 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Greene, Benjamin Buck (1808-1902) |
| Brief: | Financier, merchant and shipowner, governor of the Bank of England |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 52 Woburn Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Greene, Richard Marius Joseph (1918-1985) |
| Brief: | Film and television actor who appeared in more than 40 films, best known for the lead role in TV series 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 65 Marchmont Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1938 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Greenhill, John (~1644-1676) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter, "the most excellent of Lely's disciples" |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Lincoln's Inn Fields |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1676 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Greenhill, Thomas (1669?-1740) |
| Brief: | Surgeon, claimed to be the last of 39 children born to his mother Elizabeth, proponent of embalming and the author of 'The Art of Embalming' |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Southampton Row |
| Contemp. address: | King Street |
| Resident: | ~1732 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Greenwood, Arthur (1880-1954) |
| Brief: | Labour Party politician, Minister of health, member of the war cabinet |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Gainsborough Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1954 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Greenwood, Arthur William James [Anthony], Baron Greenwood of Rossendale (1911-1982) |
| Brief: | Labour Party politician, party chairman, cabinet minister |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 38 Downshire Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1951-1982 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Greenwood, Hamar, first Viscount Greenwood (1870-1948) |
| Brief: | Politician and businessman, the last Chief Secretary for Ireland |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Cambridge Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939 |
| Notes: | Rebuilt |
| Name: | Greenwood, Hamar, first Viscount Greenwood (1870-1948) |
| Brief: | Politician and businessman, the last Chief Secretary for Ireland |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Chester Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1925-1929 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gregory, Edward John (1850-1909) |
| Brief: | Painter in oils and watercolours, President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, best known painting is 'Boulter's Lock: Sunday Afternoon' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 The Mall Studios |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1874-1877 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gregory, James Reynolds (1832-1899) |
| Brief: | Mineralogist |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 88 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1881-1891 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gregory, Stanley (Stan) (1926-2016) |
| Brief: | Geographer and climatologist who pioneered formal statistical methods in data analyses |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 69 Clarence Way |
| Contemp. address: | 69 Clarence Road |
| Resident: | 1926 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Greiffenhagen, Maurice William (1862-1931) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator known for his allegorical mural painting for ocean liners, libraries, etc. |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Primrose Hill Studios, Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1889-1894 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Greiffenhagen, Maurice William (1862-1931) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator known for his allegorical mural painting for ocean liners, libraries, etc. |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Bedford Way |
| Contemp. address: | 10 Upper Bedford Place |
| Resident: | 1871-1884 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Greig, John (1759-1819) |
| Brief: | Mathematician and author of 'The Young Lady's Guide to Arithmetic' |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 12 Bridgeway Street |
| Contemp. address: | 12 Bridgewater Street |
| Resident: | 1819 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Greig, Woronzow (1805-1865) |
| Brief: | Barrister and scientist who corresponded with Babbage, Herschel and Mary Somerville, his mother |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | 94 Great Russell Street |
| Resident: | 1805-1807 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Grenville, William Wyndham, Baron Grenville (1759-1834) |
| Brief: | Politician who was Prime Minister of the government that abolished the slave trade |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near Heath Brow |
| Contemp. address: | Camelford Cottage |
| Resident: | 1807-1813 |
| Notes: | Demolished, location uncertain |
| Name: | Griffin, Robert John Thurlow [Jonathan] (1906-1990) |
| Brief: | Writer and translator, director of BBC European Intelligence during WWII |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1928-1936 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Griffin, Robert John Thurlow [Jonathan] (1906-1990) |
| Brief: | Writer and translator, director of BBC European Intelligence during WWII |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Sharpleshall Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1968-1990 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Griffin, Robert John Thurlow [Jonathan] (1906-1990) |
| Brief: | Writer and translator, director of BBC European Intelligence during WWII |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 St Andrew's Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1936-1938 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Griffith, Edward (1790-1858) |
| Brief: | Naturalist and solicitor who translated Georges Cuvier's Règne animal |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 32 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1858 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Griffith, Richard Clewin (1872-1955) |
| Brief: | Chess player, author and editor of the British Chess Magazine |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Wedderburn Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1919-1931 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Griffith, Richard Clewin (1872-1955) |
| Brief: | Chess player, author and editor of the British Chess Magazine |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 83 Fitzjohn's Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901-1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Griffith, Richard Clewin (1872-1955) |
| Brief: | Chess player, author and editor of the British Chess Magazine |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Cannon Place |
| Contemp. address: | 10 Heathfield Gardens |
| Resident: | 1881-1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Griffiths [née Stevenson], Dame (Elizabeth) Anne (1932-2017) |
| Brief: | Librarian and archivist, personal archivist of Prince Philip |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 29 Cumberland Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 2007-2017 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grigson, Geoffrey Edward Harvey (1905-1985) |
| Brief: | Poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. Co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4A Keats Grove |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1933-1936 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grigson, Geoffrey Edward Harvey (1905-1985) |
| Brief: | Poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. Co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Wildwood Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1937-1940 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grimes, William Francis (1905-1988) |
| Brief: | Archaeologist, director of the London Museum, excavated blitz site in London including the Temple of Mithras |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 1, Elsworthy Court, Elsworthy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1970-1972 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grimshaw, Sir Nicholas (1939-2025) |
| Brief: | Architect, noted buildings include Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 17 Chalcot Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1975-2025 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Groag, Jacqueline [née Hilde Pick] (1903-1986) |
| Brief: | Influential textile designer who worked for Chanel, Lanvin, House of Worth, Schiaparelli and Paul Poiret. |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 30, Isokon, Lawn Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1941-1958 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gropius, Walter Adolph Georg (1883-1969) |
| Brief: | Architect and founder of the Bauhaus School |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 15, Isokon, Lawn Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1935-1937 |
| Notes: | EH blue plaque |
| Name: | Grose, Sir Nash (1740-1814) |
| Brief: | Judge, 'perhaps the least remarkable' of the puisne judges on king's bench in the late C18 |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 42 Bloomsbury Square |
| Contemp. address: | 40 Bloomsbury Square |
| Resident: | 1794-1814 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Grossmith, George (1847-1912) |
| Brief: | Entertainer and author of 'The Diary of a Nobody' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 36 Haverstock Hill |
| Contemp. address: | Manor Lodge, 9 Powis Place |
| Resident: | 1857-1873 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Grossmith, George (1847-1912) |
| Brief: | Entertainer and author of 'The Diary of a Nobody' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Maitland Park Villas |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1873-1875 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Grossmith, George (1847-1912) |
| Brief: | Entertainer and author of 'The Diary of a Nobody' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 St Augustine's Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1877-1879 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grossmith, George (1847-1912) |
| Brief: | Entertainer and author of 'The Diary of a Nobody' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 55 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1902-1909 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grossmith, George (1874-1935) |
| Brief: | Actor, actor-manager, playwright and songwriter, best remembered for his work in and with Edwardian musical comedies |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Maitland Park Villas |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1873-1875 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Grossmith, George (1874-1935) |
| Brief: | Actor, actor-manager, playwright and songwriter, best remembered for his work in and with Edwardian musical comedies |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 St Augustine's Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1877-1879 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grossmith, Walter Weedon (1854-1919) |
| Brief: | Actor, painter, and illustrator of 'The Diary of a Nobody' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1903-1919 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grossmith, Walter Weedon (1854-1919) |
| Brief: | Actor, painter, and illustrator of 'The Diary of a Nobody' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 36 Haverstock Hill |
| Contemp. address: | Manor Lodge, 9 Powis Place |
| Resident: | 1861-1881 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Grove, Eleanor (1826-1905) |
| Brief: | Translator and educationist, founding principal of College Hall, a hall of residence for women attending UCL |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Tavistock Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901-1905 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Groves, Sir Charles Barnard (1915-1992) |
| Brief: | Best known as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Camden Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1992 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grundy, Thomas Leeming (1808-1841) |
| Brief: | Engraver |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 26 Arlington Road |
| Contemp. address: | 13 Arlington Street |
| Resident: | 1836 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Grundy, Thomas Leeming (1808-1841) |
| Brief: | Engraver |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Camden Road |
| Contemp. address: | Brecknock Place |
| Resident: | 1841 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Gruner, Wilhelm Heinrich Ludwig (1801-1882) |
| Brief: | Artist, engraver, architect and art historian who was art advisor to Queen Victoria helped decorate Osborne House and Buckingham Palace |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Bell Moor |
| Contemp. address: | Bellmoor House |
| Resident: | 1846-1847 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Grylls, Thomas John (1845-1913) |
| Brief: | Stained glass artist (Burlison and Grylls was an important stained glass workshop) |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/stainedglass/burlison/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 29 Willes Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Grylls, Thomas John (1845-1913) |
| Brief: | Stained glass artist (Burlison and Grylls was an important stained glass workshop) |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/stainedglass/burlison/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Burgh House, New End Square |
| Contemp. address: | Burgh House, 3 Well Walk |
| Resident: | 1885-1897 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Guinness, Edward Cecil, first earl of Iveagh (1847-1927) |
| Brief: | Brewer and philanthropist, founded the 'Guinness Trust' for affordable housing and financed numerous other good causes. Donated Kenwood House, 74 acres of heath and much of his art collection to the nation |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Heath House |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1907-1923 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gülich, John Percival (1864-1898) |
| Brief: | Illustrator and engraver |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 158 Mill Lane |
| Contemp. address: | Mill Lane Cottage |
| Resident: | 1891-1898 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gülich, John Percival (1864-1898) |
| Brief: | Illustrator and engraver |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Sherriff Road |
| Contemp. address: | 3 West Hampstead Studios |
| Resident: | 1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gully, James Manby (1808-1883) |
| Brief: | Physician who specialised in hydrotherapy, Charles Darwin and Alfred, Lord Tennyson were clients |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Park Square East |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1841 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gunn, Sir (Herbert) James (1893-1964) |
| Brief: | Landscape and portrait painter, President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Kidderpore Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1948-1964 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gunn, Thomson William [Thom] (1929-2004) |
| Brief: | Poet and critic whose poetry explored drug taking, homosexuality and poetic form |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 110 Frognal |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939-1944 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gurney, Sir Goldsworthy (1793-1875) |
| Brief: | Surgeon, chemist, architect, builder, lecturer and consultant who developed a series of early steam-powered road vehicles |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 152-154 Albany Street |
| Contemp. address: | Regent's Park Manufactory |
| Resident: | 1826-1831 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gush, William (1813-1888) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 40 Camden Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1860-1864 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Gutch, John Wheeley Gough (1808-1862) |
| Brief: | Surgeon, botanist, pioneer photographer, editor of the Literary and Scientific Register |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 38 Bloomsbury Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1862 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gutch, John Wheeley Gough (1808-1862) |
| Brief: | Surgeon, botanist, pioneer photographer, editor of the Literary and Scientific Register |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 109 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | 52 Charlotte Street |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Guthrie [née Maltby], Kathleen Hilda (1906-1981) |
| Brief: | Painter in oils and watercolours who laso produced silkscreens and murals and wrote and illustrated children's books |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 The Mall Studios |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1949-1978 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Guy, William Augustus (1810-1885) |
| Brief: | Physician and statistician, The Royal Statistical Society still presents the Guy Medals in his memory |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Gordon Street |
| Contemp. address: | 26 Gordon Street |
| Resident: | 1852-1885 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Guy, William Augustus (1810-1885) |
| Brief: | Physician and statistician, The Royal Statistical Society still presents the Guy Medals in his memory |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Bloomsbury Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1841-1851 |
| Notes: | Rebuilt |
| Name: | Gwyn(ne), Eleanor [Nell] (~1650-1687) |
| Brief: | Actress and mistress of King Charles II, who appears frequently in paintings, literature, stage and film |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Lincoln's Inn Fields |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1669-1671 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Gwynne-Vaughan, Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella (1879-1967) |
| Brief: | Botanist and a leader of the first women's army corps |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 93, Bedford Court Mansions |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1915-1964 |
| Notes: | EH blue plaque |
| Name: | Gyles, Althea (1868-1949) |
| Brief: | Poet and book cover designer, interested in magic and myth |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 86 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1896 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Gyles, Althea (1868-1949) |
| Brief: | Poet and book cover designer, interested in magic and myth |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Granby Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | 15 Granby Street |
| Resident: | 1900 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
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