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== Notable residents == ===Blue plaques=== *[[Aubrey Beardsley]], illustrator β lived at 114 Cambridge Street *[[Winston Churchill|Sir Winston Churchill]], politician β lived at 33 Eccleston Square and Morpeth Terrace *[[Joseph Conrad]], Polish-born British novelist β lived at 17 Gillingham Street *[[Sir Michael Costa]], conductor and orchestra reformer β lived at 59 Eccleston Square *[[Billy Hughes|William Morris 'Billy' Hughes]], 7th Prime Minister of Australia β born at 7 Moreton Place *[[Jomo Kenyatta]], first president of Kenya β lived at 95 Cambridge Street<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/bhm_booklet.pdf |title=Black History in Westminster |access-date=2015-04-24 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021112739/http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/bhm_booklet.pdf |archive-date=21 October 2014 }}</ref> *[[Douglas Macmillan]], founder of [[Macmillan Cancer Support|Cancer Relief]] β lived at 15 Ranelagh Road<ref>{{cite book|last=Hunt|first=Timothy|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford, England|year=2004|chapter=Macmillan, Douglas (1884β1969)}}</ref> *[[Swami Vivekananda]], Hindu philosopher β lived briefly at 63 St George's Drive *Major [[Walter Clopton Wingfield]], father of lawn tennis β lived at 33 St George's Square ===Others=== [[Image:ThomasCubittStatuePimlico.jpg|thumb|Statue of [[Thomas Cubitt]] by [[William Fawke]] in Denbigh Street]] *[[Nickie Aiken]], [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Cities of London and Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)|Cities of London and Westminster]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=About Nickie Aiken|url=https://www.nickieaiken.org.uk/about-nickie-aiken|access-date=2020-12-14|website=Nickie Aiken|language=en}}</ref> *[[Laura Ashley]], designer β 83 Cambridge Street *[[Wilfrid Brambell]], actor, star of ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' β Denbigh Street<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leonardrossiter.com/risingdamp/BiogsSupp.html|title=LeonardRossiter.com: Rigby Online β Supporting Cast Biographies|work=leonardrossiter.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522095412/http://www.leonardrossiter.com/risingdamp/BiogsSupp.html|archive-date=22 May 2015}}</ref> *[[Louisa Crow]], Victorian novelist and poet *[[James Crump]], founder of St Aubyn's School, Woodford Green β 86 Cambridge Street *[[Anthony Davis (comedian)|Anthony Davis]], comedian and broadcaster *[[Charles De Gaulle]], Free French leader and French president β Dolphin Square *[[Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton]], First man to fly over Mount Everest β born 71 Eccleston Square{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} *[[Isadora Duncan]], American dancer β 33 Warwick Square<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vale |first=Allison |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u60FDgAAQBAJ&q=isadora+duncan |title=A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women |date=2018-01-18 |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |isbn=9781472140067 |language=en }}</ref> *[[Bertha Jane Grundy]], novelist, died in Eccleston Square on 5 September 1912. *[[Steve Hackett]], former [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] guitarist *[[William Hague]], former British Foreign Secretary *[[Basil Harwood]], organist and composer *[[Michael Howard]], former Conservative Party leader *[[Arthur Foord Hughes]], artist<ref name="HC">{{cite web|url=http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/hughesaf.html|title=Hughes, Arthur Foord|publisher=Friends of Hastings Cemetery|access-date=4 January 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305084459/http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/hughesaf.html|archive-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> *[[Jeremy Hunt]], politician *[[Rhys Ifans]], Welsh actor *[[Luke Irvine-Capel]], [[Archdeacon of Chichester]], lived at 30 Warwick Square during his tenure as Vicar of St Gabriel's, Warwick Square (2008β2013). *[[Catherine Johnson (playwright)|Catherine Johnson]], creator of the musical ''[[Mamma Mia! (musical)|Mamma Mia!]]'' *[[James Lennox Kerr]], Scottish socialist author *[[Gavin MacFadyen]] (1940β2016), the director of [[WikiLeaks]] and founder of the [[Centre for Investigative Journalism]] (CIJ) *[[Oswald Mosley]], British Union of Fascists leader β Dolphin Square *[[Ian Nairn]], architectural critic β 14 Warwick Square *[[Bill Nighy#cite note-46|Bill Nighy]], actor *[[Laurence Olivier]], actor β 22 Lupus Street *[[Barbara Pym]], writer β 108 Cambridge Street *[[Sheila Scott]], aviator *[[Tony Selby]], actor *[[Pamela Colman Smith]], nicknamed Pixie, artist, illustrator, and writer *[[Bram Stoker]], author of ''Dracula'' β died at 26 St George's Square<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/stoker/bio.html|title=Bram Stoker: A Brief Biography|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150426041859/http://victorianweb.org/authors/stoker/bio.html|archive-date=26 April 2015}}</ref> *[[Gianluca Vialli]], Italian football striker and manager *[[Lucy Bethia Walford]], Scottish-born novelist, died on 11 May 1915 β 17 Warwick Square.<ref>ODNB entry by David Finkelstein. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/41040 Retrieved 4 August 2013. Pay-walled.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924155020/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/41040 |date=24 September 2015 }}</ref> *[[Herbert William Weekes]], genre and animal painter β born in Pimlico ca. 1842 *[[Henry Weekes]], RA, Victorian era sculptor β worked at No. 2, lived at No. 96, Eccleston Street<ref name="London Past and Present">{{cite book|last = Wheatley|first = Henry B.|author2=Peter Cunningham |title = London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions|publisher = John Murray|year = 1891|location = Albemarle Street, London|pages = [https://archive.org/details/londonpastandpr01cunngoog/page/n188 152]|url = https://archive.org/details/londonpastandpr01cunngoog |quote = Henry Weekes, Eccleston Street, Pimlico,.}}</ref> *[[Paul Weller]], singer/songwriter, lived in a flat in Pimlico in the early 1980s *[[Small Faces]], 1960s band β 22 Westmoreland Terrace
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