Bolton Street, London Explained

Bolton Street is a street in the City of Westminster, London. The street runs from Curzon Street in the north to Piccadilly in the south.

History

Bolton Street, which was named after the Duke of Bolton, and which until 1708 was the westernmost street of London,^[1] was built in about 1696.

Notable inhabitants

Former residents of Bolton Street include:

• Madame D'Arblay (pseudonym Fanny Burney), playwright, at No. 11. Her former residence is marked by a brown plaque erected by the Society of Arts;
• Richard Clement (1754 - 1829), sugar plantation owner of Barbados, at No. 13^[2]
• Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt., a British geopolitical expert to the British Colonial Office, at No. 23;^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}
• Henry James, novelist, at No. 3.;^[1]
• John Pitt Dening, soldier and polo player, who shot himself at the Bolton House Hotel in the street in 1929.^[7]

Buildings

The western side of the street has been almost completely replaced by modern buildings but the eastern side still contains many Georgian buildings. Among the listed buildings in the street are numbers 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, 19 and 20. The auction house Noonans Mayfair has its office at number 16.

External links

51.5071°N -0.1444°W

Notes and References

1. "Bolton Street, W1." in Book: Christopher Hibbert. Christopher Hibbert. Ben Weinreb. Ben Weinreb. John Keay. Julia Keay. The London Encyclopaedia. 2010. London. Pan Macmillan. 978-0-230-73878-2. 81.
2. Web site: Richard Clement: Profile and Legacies Summary, Legacies of British Slave Ownership, UCL. University College London. 2019.
3. Web site: Report of the Incorporated Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands for the Year 1828. Incorporated Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands. R. Gilbert. 1828. 236.
4. Web site: Report of the Incorporated Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands for the Year 1829. Incorporated Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands. William Clowes, London. 1829. 88.
5. Web site: Boyle's Fashionable Court and Country Guide, January 1829. Eliza Boyle & Son. Eliza Boyle & Son, 284 Regent Street, London. 1829. 436.
6. Web site: Letter of Thomas Moody, late Commissioner for inquiring into the State of Captured Negroes, 7 July 1828, in Papers Relating to the Slave Trade, of the Session 29 January - 28 July 1828, Vol. XXVI. Thomas Moody (1779 - 1849). House of Commons. 1828.
7. "International Polo Player Found Shot", The Times, 10 April 1929, p. 18.