Albany (London) - Tenants

Tenants

The list below is based mainly on the much longer list in the Survey of London. Many tenants were in residence for only a short time when they were quite young.

  • Antony Armstrong-Jones, later 1st Earl of Snowdon, photographer.
  • Sir Squire Bancroft, actor.
  • George Basevi, architect.
  • Sybille Bedford, writer, lived in Aldous Huxley's servant's room.
  • Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor.
  • Isaiah Berlin, philosopher.
  • Philip Bobbitt, scholar.
  • Henry Brougham, later Lord Chancellor.
  • Lord Byron, poet.
  • George Canning, politician.
  • George Cattermole, artist.
  • Bruce Chatwin, writer.
  • Alan Clark, historian and politician.
  • Sir Kenneth Clark, art historian.
  • George Basevi, architect.
  • Keith Coventry, artist.
  • William Ewart Gladstone, later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • Dame Edith Evans, actress.
  • Colin Gasson Publisher and editor.
  • Bryan Guinness, poet.
  • Edward Heath, later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • Georgette Heyer, writer.
  • David Nightingale Hicks, interior decorator and designer.
  • Henry Holland, architect.
  • Aldous Huxley, writer.
  • Sir Simon Jenkins, newspaper editor and author.
  • Edward Knoblock, playwright and author.
  • John Lane, publisher.
  • Lord Lee of Fareham, politician.
  • Edward Bulwer Lytton, writer and politician.
  • Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, historian and politician.
  • Lord John Manners, politician.
  • John McManus, publisher and travel writer.
  • John Morgan, writer on etiquette.
  • Malcolm Muggeridge, journalist and broadcaster.
  • Sir Harold Nicolson, writer and politician.
  • J.B. Priestley, writer.
  • A.J. Raffles, fictional gentleman burglar in the works of E.W. Hornung.
  • Terence Rattigan, playwright.
  • John Richardson, art critic.
  • Baroness Pauline de Rothschild (socialite, writer, fashion designer).
  • Roger Scruton, philosopher.
  • Sebastian Shaw, actor.
  • Sir Robert Smirke, architect.
  • Terence Stamp, actor.
  • Lord Stanley, politician, later 15th Earl of Derby.
  • Martin Stevens, politician, MP for Fulham.
  • William Henry Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer.
  • Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor-manager.

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