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Residents of Grosvenor Square in 1795
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Boyle's Court Guide (1795) represented the inhabitants of Grosvenor Square in 1795, whose names may be of interest. However, it is worth remembering that about ten years after this list was compiled, all the houses - with the exception of those on the east side - were renumbered, and therefore only those from No. 1 to No. 8, are identical with the old numbering :
No. 1. Sir Richard Heron
No. 2. The Duke of Leeds
No. 3. Earl Sydney
No. 4. Earl Fitzwilliam
No. 5. The Duke of Beaufort
No. 6. Lady Anne Connolly
No. 7. Lady Penrhyn
No. 8. Hon. Mrs. Damer
No. 9. Hon. Robert Petre
No. 10. Dowager Duchess of Beaufort
No. 11. Mrs. Allanson
No. 12. Mrs. Knightley
No. 13. Mrs. Hopkins
No. 14. Colonel Egerton
No. 15. William Drake, Esq
No. 16. Viscount Courtney
No. 18. Paul Benfield, Esq
No. 19. The Earl of Leicester
No. 20. Edward Dawson
No. 21. Dowager Duchess of Chandos
No. 22. Marquis of Abercorn
No. 23. Earl of Derby
No. 26. Lady Heathcote
No. 27. William Jennins, Esq
No. 28. William Egerton, Esq
No. 29. Sir George Beaumont
No. 30. John Wilkes, Esq
No. 31. Earl of Jersey
No. 32. Richard Benyon, Esq
No. 33. Sir H. G. Althorpe
No. 35. Sir Joshua Vanneck
No. 36. Lady Manners
No. 37. Mrs. Grosvenor
No. 38. Dowager Lady Dashwood
No. 39. Earl Grosvenor
No. 40. Dowager Countess of Aylesford
No. 41. Lord Grimston
No. 42. Hon. Percy Wyndham
No. 43. Christopher Bethell, Esq
Of these, Lady Thanet, wife of the seventh Earl, was daughter and co-heiress of the second Marquis of Halifax, and therefore sister of the third Marquis, who was also stated as residing in the Square at this time, and whom Cumberland describes as graceful in his person, and William Pitt called "a pretty man".
The Lady Blandford mentioned above was wife of the Marquis who subsequently became third Duke of Marlborough, while the Duchess of Somerset was probably the wife of the eighth Duke, as the word "Dowager" is omitted.
Lord Maynard was the sixth Baron, and Lord de la Warr the sixteenth Baron, who was created an Earl in 1761, and whom Lord Hervey describes as "long, lank, and awkward."
To help identify the old and new numbering, it is woth adding that Horwood, in his plan of 1792, gives Lord Leicester's house as being the corner one at the west end of the north side of the Square, which later became No. 21.
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