English Heritage
Nancy Astor, 1879 - 1964, first woman to sit in Parliament, lived here.
SW1, St James's Square, 4
The modern information board at the entrance to the gardens gives the following: "No. 4 (built 1728): Home of the Astor family for thirty years. Still retained as a private residence preserving the only remaining mews annexe at the rear."
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Nancy Astor
Born as Nancy Witcher Langhorne in Danville, Virginia, USA. Married Waldorf A...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Nancy Astor
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
Left to right down the plaques are: Forsyth, Davis, Garland, Houdini, which we think is the sequence of erection.
We have laboured long and hard trying to understand what "H.R" and these dates refer to, but have yet to find an answer. Here is a report...
The date of birth given on the plaque, 1856, is wrong. Niblett was born in 1851.
Benny Hill, 1922-1992, comedian, lived here 1960-1986, The Dead Comics Society.
The plaque fails to explain why it is here, or why this school has this name, which is probably the same thing.  Trying to answer this qu...
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