Editing Savile Row (section)

===Nineteenth century===
Initially, the street was occupied by military officers and their wives, along with politicians: [[William Pitt the Younger]] wrote letters from the street when it was called Savile Street;<ref>{{cite book |first=Anne|last=Manning |title=The Journey from Blandford to Hayes: The Life and Times of Two Prime Ministers, William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) and William Pitt the Younger |publisher=Bromley Leisure & Community Services |date=12 January 2009 |page=72}}</ref> Irish-born playwright and MP, [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]] lived at 14 Savile Row in 1813–1816, till his death.<ref>{{cite book |title=Indication of Houses of Historical Interest in London: Volume 4 |author=P.S. King |page=88 |publisher=Jas. Truscott Press / London County Council|date=1928}}</ref> [[Jules Verne]] had [[Phileas Fogg]], his lead character in ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'', live at 7 Savile Row – a "fashionable address" and "the former home of [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan|Sheridan]]".<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/legacyofempirejo0000glin|url-access=registration|title=Legacy of Empire: A Journey Through British Society |first=Werner|last=Glinga |page=[https://archive.org/details/legacyofempirejo0000glin/page/27 27] |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-7190-2272-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-cDaIELSXtgC&pg=PT185 |title=A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland |page=175 |first=Barbara|last=Black |publisher=Ohio University Press |date=20 November 2012|isbn=978-0-8214-4435-1}}</ref> It may have been the affluent and influential nature of the residents of Savile Row that first attracted dealers in luxury goods to the area.<ref name=Berg>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hemsvn9ZbRkC&pg=PA617 |title=The Berg Companion to Fashion |pages=617–618 |first=Valerie|last=Steele |publisher=Berg |date=15 November 2010|isbn=978-1-84788-592-0}}</ref>

Tailors started to take premises around Savile Row in the late 18th century, first in [[Cork Street]], about 1790, then by 1803 in Savile Row itself.<ref name="Sheppard 1963 442–455" /> In 1846, [[Henry Poole & Co|Henry Poole]], credited as creator of the [[dinner jacket]] or tuxedo,<ref name="NYT" /> opened an entrance at 37 Savile Row from his late father's tailoring premises at 4 Old Burlington Street.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://henrypoole.com/history/the-story/the-past/|title=The Story|publisher=henrypoole.com|access-date=21 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116021500/https://henrypoole.com/history/the-story/the-past/|archive-date=16 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41491&strquery=#s2|title=Survey of London: Volumes 31 and 32: St James Westminster, Part 2|author=F. H. W. Sheppard|via=British History Online |publisher=London County Council|pages=495–517|date=1963}}</ref> As tailoring moved into the street, the house frontages were altered to bring natural light into the tailors' working area with the addition of glass frontages and [[lightwell]]s.<ref name=SPA /> The houses have been much altered over time; the original Burlingtonian design has been mostly lost, though No. 14 still retains much of the original external features.<ref name=Sheppard />