North Audley Street

Grosvenor Square. (W1) So called after Hugh Audley of the Inner Temple. The title of a pamphlet, published in 1662, records his history: "The Way to be Rich, according to the practice of the Great Audley, who began with £200 in the year 1605, and died worth £400,000 this November, 1662." (Wheatley's London Past and Present, vol. I, p. 79) At No. 26 once resided Horace Walpole's accomplished favourites, Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry. (Reference: Jesse's London, vol. I, p. 37)

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