Diplomat and courtier. Favourite of Queen Henrietta Maria (wife of Charles I). Fought on the King's side in the Civil War and after his execution continued to support the Queen and two princes in exile. On the Restoration he was appointed ambassador to France where he and the Queen promoted closer ties between France and England. Charles II repaid royalty's financial debt to Jermyn partly by granting him property including the area we know as St James's. Jermyn encouraged the development of this area in the classical style and commissioned Wren to design the church. Thus his sobriquet 'founder of the West End'. Died, unmarried, at his house in St James's Square. Suggestions that Charles II may actually be Jermyn's son overlook the facial similarities between the two kings.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Henry Jermyn, Earl of St Albans
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Henry Jermyn
Look left to St James's Square and right to St James's Church in Jermyn Stree...
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Bernard L. Morgan, CBE, JP, Deputy
Member of the Joint Co-ordinating Committee in 1982 for opening Tower Bridge to the public.
Henry Labouchere, Baron Taunton
Politician. Â Born St Marylebone. Â One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Â Died at home, 27 Belgrave Square.
Jennie M. Elias
Chairman of the Trustees of the President Reagan Memorial Fund Trust U.K. Â The picture shows her with Thatcher.
J. Cox
Councillor on the Committee for the 1901 Shoreditch Town Hall Extension.
Thomas Grenville
Bibliophile and politician. He was commissioned briefly in the Coldstream Guards, and served as a member of parliament from 1780 to 1810. He started collecting books from an early age, and by his d...
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