Editing Berkeley Square (section)

== Famous residents ==
Residents have included:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Berkeley Square and its neighbourhood {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol4/pp326-338 |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref>

* [[John Byng]] (1741), executed Vice-Admiral, Royal Navy. His home was decorated by architect [[Isaac Ware]]
* [[Horace Walpole]] 1779 until 1797 death—at No.11
* [[George Canning]], Prime Minister (1827)—at No.50
* [[Winston Churchill]]—at No.48 as a child
* Lady [[Isabella Finch]]-at No.44 until 1771, a [[Lady of the Bedchamber]] to [[Princess Amelia of Great Britain|Princess Amelia]]<ref>{{Cite ODNB |title=Finch, Lady (Cecilia) Isabella [Bell] (1700–1771), courtier |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-68377 |access-date=2023-06-10 | date=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/68377 | last1=Chalus | first1=E. H. }}</ref>
* [[Robert Clive]] of India—bought No.45 in 1761, where he died in 1774
* [[Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey|Sarah Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey]] (Lady Jersey), one of the famous patronesses of [[Almack's]] and leaders of the ''[[Ton (le bon ton)|ton]]'' during the [[Regency era]]; heiress to the [[Child & Co.]] banking fortune—at No.38
* [[Charles Rolls]], co-founder of Rolls-Royce, born here 1877
* [[50 Berkeley Square]] used to be occupied by [[Maggs Brothers Antiquarian Booksellers]].<ref name=nn>[http://www.walksoflondon.co.uk/37/50-berkeley-square-the-mo.shtml walksoflondon.co.uk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122120101/http://www.walksoflondon.co.uk/37/50-berkeley-square-the-mo.shtml |date=22 January 2014 }}—50 Berkeley Square, The Most Haunted House In London, accessed 2008-02-08.</ref>

At [[Lansdowne House]], formerly on the square:

* [[John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute]], [[Prime Minister]] (1762–63)
* [[William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne]] (later 1st [[Marquess of Lansdowne]]), prime minister (1782–83)
* [[William Pitt the Younger]], prime minister (1783–1801, 1804–1806)
* [[William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor]], richest man in America at the time (1891–1893)
* [[Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery]], Liberal statesman and Prime Minister (1894–1895)
* [[Harry Gordon Selfridge]], founder of the [[Selfridges]] [[department store]]

=== Fictional residents ===
* [[P.G. Wodehouse]]'s character [[Bertie Wooster]] lives near Berkeley Square in a Berkeley St. flat along with his [[valet]] [[Jeeves]], not far from the [[Drones Club]].
* [[Harry Flashman]], the vicious bully of [[Tom Brown's School Days]] and anti-hero of the ''[[Flashman Papers]]'', had a marital home here with his wife Elspeth.
* Cathy Lane, Patty Lane's "identical cousin", is said to have lived here in the theme song to ''[[The Patty Duke Show]]''.
* [[50 Berkeley Square]] is allegedly haunted.<ref name=nn/>
* "Tomlinson", the title character of [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s 1891 satirical poem, "gave up the ghost at his house in Berkeley Square".
* Peter Standish, a character from the play ''[[Berkeley Square (play)|Berkeley Square]]'' written by [[John L. Balderston|John Balderston]],  about a Yankee who lives in a house on the square and is transported back to the 18th century. The play was produced as a [[Berkeley Square (1933 film)|movie]] in 1933, with [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]], and in [[I'll Never Forget You (film)|1951]], and on television in 1959.
* In the 1949 comedy film ''[[Kind Hearts and Coronets]]'', Lady Agatha D'Ascogne is made to fall to her death in Berkeley Square to accommodate a clever poetic parody.
* Lady Emily Ashton, created by author [[Tasha Alexander]], lives primarily in her Berkeley Square residence during the Victorian period.
* The Marquis of Alverstoke, the main male character from the novel ''[[Frederica (novel)|Frederica]]'' by [[Georgette Heyer]].
*The 1998 television miniseries ''[[Berkeley Square (TV series)|Berkeley Square]]'' focussed on three wealthy [[Edwardian]] families and their staff living in the square.
*One of [[Peter Cheyney|Peter Cheyney's]] main characters, [[private detective]] [[Slim Callaghan]], had his office on Berkeley Square.