Eaton Place
Street in Belgravia, London
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Eaton Place is a street in London's Belgravia district.
It runs off the top left hand corner of Eaton Square and then parallel to it until a junction with Upper Belgrave Street.
Notable events, establishments and inhabitants
- The 19th century sugar-manufacture expert Shute Barrington Moody, who was the brother of the founder of British Columbia Major-General Richard Clement Moody, resided at Burton Street (which is now South Eaton Place), Eaton Square, Belgravia.[1][2]
- John Towneley, MP for Beverley and later a family trustee at the British Museum, lived at no 76 in 1860.[3][4]
- The Embassy of Hungary, London, is at no 35.
- After Great Britain's recognition of the communist regime operating in Poland as the legitimate Polish government, the Polish government-in-exile was forced to relocate from the Polish embassy to no 43, which prior to this event was the president's personal residence. This period ended in 1990 following the first free presidential elections after the May Coup in Poland, during which Lech Wałęsa was elected as the president. The government-in-exile was thereby disbanded,[5] and its president handed over various insignia of the Second Polish Republic to Wałęsa.[6]
- The 1971 TV series Upstairs, Downstairs is supposed to be set at 165 Eaton Place; but there is no number 165, so they used number 65 and painted a "1" in front of the house number for outside shots.
- On 22 June 1922, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, was assassinated outside his home at no 36 by Irish Republican Army members Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan.[7]
- The actress Dame Joan Collins resides in Eaton Place.
