Editing Cheyne Walk (section)

==Notable residents==
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Many famous people have lived (and continue to live) in the Walk:

[[File:4 Cheyne Walk GE ILN 1881.jpg|thumb|4 Cheyne Walk, shown here in 1881, was briefly the home of [[George Eliot]]]]
[[File:5 Cheyne Walk 01.JPG|thumb|4 and 5 Cheyne Walk]]
[[File:15 Cheyne Walk 02.JPG|thumb|15 Cheyne Walk]]
[[File:16 Cheyne Walk 05.JPG|thumb|16 Cheyne Walk, home to [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]]]]

No. 1:
* Samuel Prout Newcombe (b. 1824) entrepreneur, leased the property from the ground landlord, the [[George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan|Earl Cadogan]],<ref>[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol2/pt1/pp31-33 ''Survey of London'', Vol. 2: Chelsea, Pt I (London County Council, 1909).]</ref> in 1891 shortly after it had been rebuilt. Newcombe had made his money in the 1850s from 'The London School of Photography', a photographic portrait studio that soon had branches across London and beyond, exploiting the public's appetite for ''[[carte de visite]]'' portraits.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hastings Photographers|url=https://www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/Hastings_Newcombe.htm|access-date=21 April 2021|website=www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk}}</ref> His daughter [[Bertha Newcombe]] (1857–1947), who lived in the house until her father's death in 1912, was an artist, illustrator and suffragist. She had a relationship with [[George Bernard Shaw]], who sat for a portrait in her studio within the house.
No.2:
* [[John Barrymore]] American actor, lived for a short time at No.2, on the corner with Flood Street.
* [[Vera Brittain]], novelist and pacifist, and her husband, [[George Catlin (political scientist)|George Catlin]], lived at number 2 before and during the Second World War.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/165293-did-haig-have-a-london-residence/e/ |title=Did Haig have a London residence - Great War Forum |date=22 June 2011 |publisher=greatwarforum.org |access-date=24 September 2018}}</ref>
No.3:
* Admiral [[William Henry Smyth]], and later [[Keith Richards]], lived at number 3, which in 1945 became a [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] property housing the [[George Henry Benton Fletcher|Benton Fletcher]] collection of keyboard instruments.
No.4:
* [[George Eliot]] spent the last three weeks of her life at [[4 Cheyne Walk|number 4]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=George Eliot's home on Cheyne Walk, Chelsea|url=https://victorianweb.org/authors/eliot/1.html|access-date=21 April 2021|website=victorianweb.org}}</ref>
* [[William Sandys Wright Vaux]], antiquarian.
* [[William Dyce]], Scottish painter and arts tutor.
* [[Daniel Maclise]], painter.
* [[Michael Bloomberg]], the former mayor of New York City, acquired number 4 in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Grynbaum|first=Michael M.|date=27 July 2015|title=Former Mayor Bloomberg Buys London Mansion for $25 Million|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/nyregion/former-mayor-bloomberg-buys-london-mansion-for-25-million.html|access-date=21 April 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
No.5:
* The miser [[John Camden Neild]] lived at [[5 Cheyne Walk|number 5]].
* [[Howard Frank]], English estate agent and co-founder of the Knight Frank estate agent chain.
No.6:
* Sir [[Arthur Sullivan]], English composer, attended boarding school at number 6 in 1854.
* [[Edward Dundas Butler]], translator and senior librarian at the [[British Library|Department of Printed Books, British Museum]].
* [[Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso]], British Liberal politician, [[Secretary of State for War]] during [[World War II]].
* [[Gerald Scarfe]] now lives there.
* The house has a plaque to commemorate [[Margaret Damer Dawson]], who was an early head of the [[Women's Police Service|women's police service]].<ref>[http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/margaret-damer-dawson Damer Dawson's plaque] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725205826/http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/margaret-damer-dawson |date=25 July 2014 }}, LondonRemembers.com, retrieved 20 July 2014</ref>
No.10:
* [[David Lloyd George]] lived at number 10.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|date=18 May 2006|title=Chelsea Walk - Cheyne Walk 1-30|url=https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/vmtours/chelseawalk/vm_cw_cheynewalk30_1.asp|access-date=6 July 2017|publisher=Rbkc.gov.uk}}</ref>

No.11:
* Sir [[George Scott Robertson]], Colonial Administrator and traveller in Afghanistan, lived at number 11, as did Sir [[Colin Scott-Moncrieff]], British civil engineer, most notably in colonial Egypt.
No. 12:
* [[Sir John Scott Lillie]], JP, decorated [[Peninsular War]] veteran, [[Deputy Lieutenant]] of [[Middlesex]], inventor and political activist lived at no. 12 (previously, no. 13) Cheyne Walk and added a floor to it. The building was demolished in 1887, but elements from it were later used in the reconstruction of 1 Cheyne Walk.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol2/pt1/pp31-33 |title=Cheyne Walk: No. 1 |publisher=British-history.ac.uk |access-date=6 July 2017}}</ref> &nbsp;
No.13:
* [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] lived at number 13 from 1905 to 1928. There, he wrote works including his first three symphonies, the ''[[Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis]]'', ''[[The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams)|The Lark Ascending]]'', and ''[[Hugh the Drover]]''.
No.14:
* [[Bertrand Russell]] lived at number 14 in 1902.<ref>Frege, Gottlob. 1980. ''Philosophical and Mathematical Correspondence''. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 147–155. {{ISBN|0 631 19620 X}}</ref>
No.15:
* The landscape painter [[Cecil Gordon Lawson]] lived at [[15 Cheyne Walk|number 15]] (a number of his works still hang there).
* The engraver [[Henry Thomas Ryall]] lived at number 15.
* 18th-century Admiral Sir [[John Balchen]] lived at number 15.
* The Allason family, well known for their political and literary influence, lived at number 15.
* The [[Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith|Baron]] and [[Catherine Courtney, Baroness Courtney of Penwith|Baroness Courtney of Penwith]] lived at number 15.
* [[Hester Dowden]], English spiritualist, lived at number 15.
No.16:
* [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]] lived at number 16 (where he was banned from keeping peacocks due to the noise) from 1862 to 1882.<ref>Pamela Todd, ''Pre-Raphaelites at Home'', Watson-Giptill Publications, {{ISBN|0-8230-4285-5}}</ref>
* [[Hall Caine]], novelist, as Rossetti's housemate.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Caine|first1=Hall|title=Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924105428357|date=1882|publisher=Elliot Stock|location=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924105428357/page/n135 114]}}</ref>
* [[Frederick Sandys]], painter, as Rossetti's housemate 1866–67.
* [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]].
* [[Florence Kate Upton]], English illustrator, creator of the [[Golliwog]] character.
* John [[John Paul Getty Jr.|Paul Getty]] II lived here from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100222175032/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-paul-getty-ii-a-very-english-billionaire-673885.html Obituary], ''[[The Independent]]'', 14 June 2001</ref>
* [[Jacques Blumenthal]], German pianist and composer.
No.17:
* [[Thomas Attwood (composer)]] (1765–1838) lived at number 17 for some years up to his death in 1838. He was organist at [[St Paul's Cathedral]] from 1796, and of the Chapel Royal from 1836. He was a pupil of Mozart. Thomas Attwood is buried in the crypt of St Paul's underneath the organ.
No.18:
* Number 18 was renowned for being the home of the curious museum (knackatory) and tavern known as [[Don Saltero's|Don Saltero's Coffee House]]. The proprietor was James Salter, who was for many years the servant of Sir Hans Sloane.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>
No.19:
[[File:Old and new London - a narrative of its history, its people, and its places (1873) (14778355285).jpg|thumb|The Tudor House of the old [[Chelsea Manor]]]]
* No 19 was site of the horrific 1973 killing of elderly widow Isabella Griffith, by the serial killer [[Patrick Mackay]].
* Sir [[Hans Sloane]]'s manor house, demolished in 1760, stood at numbers 19–26.
No.21:
* [[James McNeill Whistler]] lived at numbers 21 (1890–92), 72 (? to his death there in 1903), 96 (1866–1878) and 101 (1863) at different times.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=74618|title=No. 72, Cheyne Walk|work=british-history.ac.uk}}</ref>
* [[Mortimer Menpes]], the watercolourist and etcher, shared a flat with [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler|Whistler]].
* [[Edward Arthur Walton]] lived here.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search/resultsn.cfm?NID%3D6124%26RID%3D%26Y1%3D%26Y2%3D |title=Manuscripts - Collections relating to Edward Arthur Walton |access-date=2 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120132605/http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search/resultsn.cfm?NID=6124&RID=&Y1=&Y2= |archive-date=20 November 2011  }}</ref>
No.22:
* Dame [[Elizabeth Taylor]], English actress, rented this house during the 1982 West End run of her Broadway play, ''The Little Foxes''.
No.23:
* [[Sol Campbell]], footballer.
No.24:
* [[Amanda Eliasch]], photographer and  documentary filmmaker<ref>{{cite web |title=AMANDA ELIASCH, NICKY HASLAM |url=https://donfeatures.photoshelter.com/image/I0000.d4bKhdEfNM |website=photoshelter.com |access-date=11 July 2021}}</ref>
No.25
* [[John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley|Lord Browne]], former CEO of BP.
No.27:
* [[Bram Stoker]], Irish theatre manager and novelist, author of ''[[Dracula]]'', lived at No.27.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>
No.37:
* [[Nicolaus Zinzendorf|Nicolaus Ludwig]], Imperial Count von [[Zinzendorf]] und Pottendorf, and the Brethren of the [[Moravian Church]] renovated [[Lindsey House]] at numbers 99–100 in Cheyne Walk in the mid-18th century; it was for a number of years the headquarters of their worldwide missionary activity. Moravian Close nearby is still the London [[God's Acre]], where many famous Moravians are buried.
No.41:
* [[James Clerk Maxwell]] lived at number 41 while lecturing at King's College London in the early 1860s. He used the iron railings outside his home in two experiments on electro-magnetic fields, much to the dismay of friends and foreigners.
No.42, Shrewsbury House:
* [[Guy Liddell]], British Intelligence officer, lived in a flat in the present Shrewsbury House, No.42 Cheyne Walk.
* James Grant, doctor, adventurer and shark attack survivor.
No.48:
* [[Mick Jagger]] and [[Marianne Faithfull]] lived at number 48 in 1968.<ref>{{cite book|last=Faithfull|first=Marianne|title=Faithfull|publisher=Penguin|year=1995|isbn=0-14-024653-3|page=223}}</ref>
No. 74: 0815607318
* Architect [[Charles Robert Ashbee|C. R. Ashbee]] designed number 74 and lived there off and on until 1917. <ref>Ashbee, Felicity. Janet Ashbee: Love, Marriage, and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. p. 36.{{ISBN|0815607318}}</ref> He also designed number 38, 39.<ref>Gere, Charlotte, & Michael Whiteway. (1993) ''Nineteenth-century Design: From Pugin to Mackintosh''. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 253. {{ISBN|0297830686}}</ref>
No.89:
* [[Charles Edward Mudie]], English publisher and founder of Mudie's Lending Library, was born 1818 in Cheyne Walk, where his father owned a circulating library, stationery and bookbinding business at number 89.<ref>London and Country Directory, 1811</ref><ref>Article titled "Mudie's" in the 'London Echo'</ref>
No.91:
* Artist [[Charles Conder]] lived at 91 Cheyne Walk, 1904–1906<ref>"Charles Conder" by [[Ann Galbally]] and Barry Pearce, Art Gallery of NSW., 2003, p.200, {{ISBN|978-0-7347-6343-3}}</ref>
No.92 (Belle Vue):
* The chemist [[Charles Hatchett]], the poet [[William Bell Scott]], and the anatomist [[John Marshall (surgeon)|John Marshall]] lived at [[Belle Vue House]], number 92.<ref>{{cite book| last = Godfrey| first = Walter Hindes| author-link = Walter Godfrey| year = 1913| title = [[Survey of London]], vol. 4: Chelsea, pt II| publisher = [[British History Online]]| chapter = Belle Vue House, No. 92, Cheyne Walk| pages = 31–32| chapter-url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=74625| access-date = 18 April 2012}}</ref>
* Novelist [[Ken Follett]] and his wife, the politician [[Barbara Follett (politician)|Barbara Follett]], lived here.
* [[Patrick Wall]], Conservative MP, lived here.
No.93:
* [[Elizabeth Gaskell]] was born at number 93.
No.95:
* [[Anna Lea Merritt]], after the death of her husband, Henry Merritt in 1877, Anna moved to No.95 where she set up her art studio, the earliest known date of her being registered at this address was in January 1879.<ref>American Register, Saturday 11 January 1879 - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003338/18790111/080/0006</ref>
No. 96–101 ([[Lindsey House]], presently known as No. 100)
* [[Diana Mitford]] lived at number 96 with her first husband [[Bryan Guinness]] in 1932.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Courcy|first1=Anne de|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AHKaFhdl_AMC&q=diana+guinness+cheyne+walk&pg=PA89|title=Diana Mosley|date=26 October 2004|publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=9780060565336}}</ref>
* Sir [[Marc Brunel]], who designed the [[Thames Tunnel]], lived at number 98.
* His son [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]] also lived there.
* [[Hugh Lane]], art dealer, collector and founder of the [[Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane|Municipal Gallery of Modern Art]] lived at number 100 ([[Lindsey House]]) from 1909 until his death on the [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']] in 1915.<ref>O'Byrne, Robert ''Hugh Lane 1875–1915''. Lilliput Press, 2000, p. 118.</ref>

No.104:
* [[Hilaire Belloc]] lived at number 104, as did the artist [[Walter Greaves (artist)|Walter Greaves]].
No. 107
* Sir [[Walter Westley Russell]], English painter and arts tutor
No. 108
* [[John Tweed]], sculptor and friend of [[Auguste Rodin]], lived at number 108.
No. 109:
* Sir [[Philip Steer]] lived at number 109.
No. 113
* Suffragette [[Isabella Potbury]] and her husband, the playwright and actor [[Charles Nichols Spencer|Charles Nicholas Spencer]].
No.116:
* [[Hope Emily Allen]], American medieval history scholar, in particular, of the medieval mystic [[Richard Rolle]].
No.119:
* [[J. M. W. Turner]] died at number 119 in 1851.
* [[Rolling Stones]] musician [[Ronnie Wood]] also lived here.
No.120:
* [[Sylvia Pankhurst]] lived at number 120 after leaving university.
No.122:
* [[Peter Warlock]], English composer, lived at number 122 in 1921.
* [[George Melly]], jazz musician, lived in a flat sublet by Whidborne.
* [[Bridget Keir]], English landscape painter.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVA7qLbLvf8C&dq=122+cheyne+walk+london&pg=PT56|isbn = 9781446453902|title = Love in Cyberia|date = 31 May 2011|publisher = Penguin Random House Children's UK}}</ref>
* [[Gabriel Atkin]] (1897–1937), English landscape painter and architect, who was a lover of the poet [[Siegfried Sassoon]], lived here.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LO9KDzIYSZoC&q=gabriel+atkin+122+cheyne+walk+london|isbn = 9780415967136|title = Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches : A Biography (1918-1967)|year = 2003|publisher = Psychology Press}}</ref>
* Also [[Timothy Whidborne]], English portrait painter.



* [[Carlyle Mansions]]
** [[Richard Addinsell]], English composer, lived in flat 1.
** [[Gordon Harker]], English actor, lived in flat 11.
** [[Edward Robey]], a lawyer in the Acid Bath Murders case of the serial killer [[John George Haigh]], lived in flat 11.
** [[T. S. Eliot]], American poet and writer, lived in flat 19.
** [[Shapur Kharegat]], journalist, editor and former Asia Director of ''[[The Economist]]'' lived at flat 17.
** [[John Davy Hayward]], theatre and literary critic, lived in flat 19.
** [[Henry James]] spent his last years and died here in flat 21.
** [[Robert Erskine Childers|Erskine Childers]] lived in flat 20, with his family, and wrote his novel ''[[The Riddle of the Sands]]'' there as well. He also lived at 16 Cheyne Gardens for several years.
** [[Ian Fleming]], novelist, Intelligence officer, creator of spy [[James Bond]], lived in flat 24. He also lived briefly at number 122 Cheyne Walk
** [[W. Somerset Maugham]], British novelist, lived in flat 27.
** [[Lionel Davidson]] lived at Carlyle Mansions from 1976 to 1984, where he wrote ''[[The Chelsea Murders]]'', a CWA Gold Dagger winner.
** [[Sol Campbell]] has a six-storey, five bedroom house in Cheyne Walk, and an apartment in Carlyle Mansions.<ref name=DT>{{cite news|last1=Riley-Smith|first1=Ben|title=Sol Campbell attacks Labour's mansion tax in scathing series of tweets|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11130157/Sol-Campbell-attacks-Labours-mansion-tax-in-scathing-series-of-tweets.html|access-date=1 October 2014|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=30 September 2014}}</ref>


* [[Edith Cheesman]], watercolour artist, lived at number 127 in 1911, since demolished and now covered by the World's End Estate, where [[The Clash]] frontman [[Joe Strummer]] lived.
* [[George Weidenfeld]], publisher, who became Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea, lived here from the 1960s until his death on 20 January 2016.
* [[George Best]] once had a flat here.
* [[Laurence Olivier]] and [[Jill Esmond]] lived here in the 1930s.
* [[Mary Sidney]] lived at [[Crosby Hall, London|Crosby Hall]] from 1609 to 1615.
* In July 1972, during a short-lived ceasefire, an IRA delegation that included Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness held talks in a house in Cheyne Walk with a British government team led by Northern Ireland Secretary William Whitelaw.
* The Old Cheyneans – former pupils of Sloane Grammar School, Hortensia Road, Chelsea – take their name from the association with Cheyne Walk and Sir Hans Sloane who lived there.
* [[Colin Colahan]], Australian painter and sculptor, lived in Cheyne Walk.
* [[Augustus Pugin]], English architect, known for his work on the [[Palace of Westminster]], lived briefly on Cheyne Walk in 1841.
* [[Susan Fleetwood]], British actress, lived on Cheyne Walk.{{when|date=September 2022}} Her brother is [[Mick Fleetwood]], a member of the British-American rock group [[Fleetwood Mac]].{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}