Great Cumberland Place

Great Cumberland Place is a street in the City of Westminster, part of Greater London, England. There is also a hotel bearing the same name on the street.

Benches on Great Cumberland Place.

Description

The street runs from Oxford Street at Marble Arch to George Street at Bryanston Square.[1]

It contains the Western Marble Arch Synagogue, near which stands a statue of Raoul Wallenberg.

Great Cumberland Place[2] is home to The Cumberland Hotel.[3]

Notable residents
Statue of Wallenberg

The street was the home of Thomas Pinckney while he was the United States ambassador to the Court of St James's.[4]

Sir James Mackintosh lived in Great Cumberland Street, which was later re-numbered as part of Great Cumberland Place.[5]

The residents listed in 1833 were: "Hans Busk, Esq.; Sir Clifford Constable; Sir Frederick Hamilton; Lady C. Underwood; Sir G. Ivison Tapps; Baron Bülow (the Prussian Minister); General Sir R. M'Farlane; Leonard Currie, Esq.; Sir S. B. Fludyer, Bart.; Lady Trollope; Earl of Leitrim; Sir Alexander Johnston; and the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Norwich", and in Great Cumberland Street "Lord Saltoun; Mrs. Portman; John Wells, Esq.; Colonel Sherwood; Captain Richard Manby; John Lodge, Esq.; Major Murray; Robert Cutlar Fergusson, Esq.; John N. McLeod, Esq.; and Lord Bagot".[6]

The explorers James Theodore Bent and Mabel Bent lived first at Number 43 and then Number 13 Great Cumberland Place from the early 1880s until Mabel Bent's death in 1929.[7]

References
  1. Google Map
  2. Great Cumberland Place London "google.com".
  3. The Cumberland Hotel London "www.sites.google.com".
  4. State papers and publick documents of the United States, Volume 1 (Boston: Thomas B. Wait, 1819), p. 402
  5. Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham, London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions (Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 483
  6. Thomas Smith, A Topographical and Historical Account of the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bone (1833), p. 223
  7. The Times, 28 November 1899.

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