Tite Street - Famous Occupants

Famous Occupants

The following people have lived in Tite Street:

• No 30 (formerly 12A):
  • Peter Warlock, composer — marked with a blue plaque. Warlock died here on 17 December 1930, probably suicide.
• No 31 (residence) & 33 (studio):
  • John Singer Sargent, American portrait painter.
• No 33:
  • James McNeill Whistler, artist.
  • Augustus John, artist — intermittently between 1940 and 1958.
  • Glyn Philpot ,Artist
• No 34 (formerly 16):
  • Oscar Wilde, writer — now with a blue plaque.
• No 35:
  • Whistler instructed Edward William Godwin to build the White House here, but due to his bankruptcy after his legal case with John Ruskin, he was never able to occupy it; the building was demolished in 1968.
• No 44 (formerly 1):
  • Frank Miles, portrait painter (also commissioned from Godwin).
  • Oscar Wilde, writer who moved in to this house, built for Miles, before later renting No 34 himself. The house was on the market in 2011 for £15,500,000.
• Shelley Court,No.56*
• Julian Edward Alfred Mond, 3rd Baron Melchett.
• Shelley Court,No.56. Flat No.15:
  • Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer and travel writer.
• Shelley Court,No.56. Flat No.17:
  • Radclyffe Hall Feminist writer
• No (not known):
  • Squadron Leader Roger Bushell RAF (30 August 1910 – 29 March 1944). South African-born British Auxiliary Air Force pilot who organised and led the famous escape from the Nazi prisoner of war camp, Stalag Luft III.
• No.18:
  • Paul Edward Dehn,Writer
• Chelsea Lodge,No.42:
  • Edwin Austin Abbey,Artist
• No.5:
  • Frederick Chesson,Anti-Slavery Campaigner
• No.50:
  • Romaine Brookes,Artist