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Brompton
(SW1) Brompton signifies Broom Town, carrying suggestions of a wide and heathy common. Brompton Square can boast of some distinguished residents. At No. 22 George Colman, junior, the dramatist, lived until his death in 1836. The same house was in 1860 taken by Shirley Brooks, editor of Punch. At No. 40 lived John Liston, comedian; and Frederick Yates, the actor, at No. 57 (Kensington, G. E. Mitton, p. 15) Long frequented by invalids for its genial air, and once famous for its taverns. Here Jenny Lind resided during the zenith of her fame. (Reference: Timbs's Curiosities of London, p. 490)
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