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.
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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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Sir Francis Walsingham
Born in London or Kent.  Principle Secretary and 'Spymaster' to Queen Elizabeth I 1573 - 1590.  He secured the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.  Died at home  in Seething Lane.
John Dumphreys
Born Bermondsey as John Molesworth Thomas Dumphreys. Member of the Commissioners of the 1890 Bermondsey Library. Â Mayor of Bermondsey in 1907. Â A Conservative, he briefly replaced Dr Cooper as MP f...
Anthony Perry
Theatre producer, director, writer, and community worker. First Director of the North Kensington Amenity Trust, 1971-6, the forerunner of what is now the Westway Trust. Through his work in the are...
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Sir John Jennings
Naval officer. Â Governor of Greenwich Hospital 1720 to his death, there.
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