Brook Street - Former Residents

Former Residents

  • 23 Brook Street: Jimi Hendrix — guitarist
  • 25 Brook Street: Georg Frideric Handel — composer - now the Handel House Museum
  • 39 Brook Street: Sir Jeffry Wyatville — architect
  • 74 Brook Street: Sir William Withey Gull - physician (Jack the Ripper suspect)
  • 76 Brook Street: Colen Campbell — architect
  • 22 Upper Brook Street: Leo Bonn — founder of what is now the Royal National Institute for Deaf People.
  • 40 Upper Brook Street: Edward Hughes Ball Hughes, Regency dandy
  • 51 Upper Brook Street: George Seferis — Greek Ambassador, poet and Nobel Laureate
  • 13 Avery Row: W. H. Davies - Welsh tramp-poet.

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    In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.
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