Editing Paddington (section)

==Notable residents==
Between 1805 and 1817, the great actress [[Sarah Siddons]] lived at Desborough House,<ref>From differences in the following two sources, it may be inferred that Mrs Siddons lived in ''Desborough House'', not Desborough Lodge. The former was destroyed before 1853, the latter a few years later when Cirencester and Woodchester streets were built.</ref> (which was demolished before 1853 to make way for the Great Western Railway) and was buried at [[Paddington Green, London|Paddington Green]], near the later graves of the eminent painters [[Benjamin Haydon]] and [[William Collins (painter)|William Collins]].<ref name=Robins>Robins, William [https://archive.org/stream/paddingtonpasta00enggoog#page/n205/mode/2up Paddington Past and Present] Caxton Steam Printing (1853)</ref>{{rp|p.183}} Her brother [[Charles Kemble]] also built a house, Desborough Lodge, in the vicinity—in which she may have lived later.<ref name=Elrington />{{rp|p.230}} In later years, the actress [[Yootha Joyce]], best known for her part in the classic television comedy [[George and Mildred]], lived at 198 Sussex Gardens.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/48622/pages/7369/page.pdf Page 7369] entry in ''London Gazette'', 28 May 1981</ref>

One of [[Napoleon]]'s nephews, Prince [[Louis Lucien Bonaparte]] (1813–1891), a notable [[Comparative linguistics|comparative linguist]] and [[Dialectology|dialectologist]], who spent most of his adult life in England, had a house in Norfolk Terrace, Westbourne Park.<ref name=Elrington />{{rp|p.200}}

The eccentric philanthropist [[Ann Thwaytes]] lived at 17 Hyde Park Gardens between 1840 and 1866.<ref>Bundock, Mike (2000). ''Herne Bay Clock Tower: A Descriptive History''. Herne Bay: Pierhead Publications. {{ISBN|9780953897704}}</ref><ref name="Friends of Broadwater">[http://www.fbwc.co.uk/Newsletters.asp Friends of Broadwater and Worthing Cemetery: ''Broadsheet'', Issue 10, Spring 2011] "Ann Thwaytes" by Rosemeary Pearson, p.11.</ref>

The [[Victorian era|Victorian]] poet [[Robert Browning]] moved from No. 1 Chichester Road to Beauchamp Lodge, 19 [[Warwick Crescent]], in 1862 and lived there until 1887.<ref name=Elrington />{{rp|pp.199}}  He is reputed to have named that locality, on the junction of two canals, "[[Little Venice London|Little Venice]]". But this has been disputed by Lord Kinross in 1966<ref>[http://www.londoncanals.co.uk/lvenice/images/kinross.jpg Letter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202080435/http://www.londoncanals.co.uk/lvenice/images/kinross.jpg |date=2 February 2017 }} to the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'', 1966</ref><ref name="LVteleGletterLC" /> and more recently by londoncanals.uk<ref>[http://www.londoncanals.co.uk/lvenice/lv00.html The history of the place name known as 'Little Venice'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309110611/http://www.londoncanals.co.uk/lvenice/lv00.html |date=9 March 2012 }}</ref> who both assert that [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Lord Byron]] humorously coined the name. The name is now applied, more loosely, to a longer reach of the canal system.

[[St Mary's Hospital, London|St Mary's Hospital]] in [[Praed Street]] is the site of several notable medical accomplishments. In 1874, [[Charles Romley Alder Wright|C. R. Alder Wright]] synthesised [[heroin]] (diacetylmorphine). Also there, in 1928, Sir [[Alexander Fleming]] first isolated [[penicillin]], earning the award of a Nobel Prize. The hospital has an Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum<ref>[http://www.imperial.nhs.uk/aboutus/museumsandarchives/history Fleming Museum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091011080628/http://www.imperial.nhs.uk/aboutus/museumsandarchives/history |date=11 October 2009 }}</ref> where visitors can see Fleming's laboratory, restored to its 1928 condition, and explore the story of Fleming and the discovery and development of penicillin through displays and video.

[[Edward Adrian Wilson|Edward Wilson]], physician, [[naturalist]] and [[ornithologist]], who died in 1912 on [[Robert Falcon Scott|Captain Robert Scott]]'s ill-fated [[Terra Nova Expedition|British Antarctic expedition]], had earlier practised as a doctor in Paddington. The former Senior Street primary school was renamed the ''Edward Wilson School'' after him in 1951.<ref name=Elrington />{{rp|pp.266}}

British painter [[Lucian Freud]] had his studio in Paddington, first at Delamere Terrace from 1943 to 1962, and then at 124 Clarendon Crescent from 1962 to 1977.<ref>Debray, C. ''Lucian Freud: The Studio'' (2010)</ref>