St James's Place

Notable residents

• Joseph Addison, the author and politician who founded The Spectator, lived here in 1710.
• Eustace Budgell, English writer and politician.
• Sir Francis Burdett, the reforming politician known as "Old Glory", lived at number 25 from 1820 to 1844.
• Sir Francis Chichester, pioneer aviator, sailor and author lived at number 9 from 1944 to 1972.
• Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill, British statesman, lived at number 29 from April 1880 to late 1882.
• James Craggs the Younger, English politician.
• Mary Delany, English artist and writer.
• Captain Basil Hall, Scottish traveller and author lived at number 4.
• Cornelius Hatfield, Jr., American Revolutionary War Loyalist partisan soldier from Elizabeth, New Jersey.
• John Hick, English industrialist, art collector and Conservative Party politician lived at number 4.
• Henry Grattan, Irish politician.
• White Kennett, Bishop of Peterborough.
• John Lubbock, English banker and scientist.
• Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, British statesman lived at number 30.
• Richard Rigby, English civil servant and politician.
• Samuel Rogers, 19th-century English poet.
• Oscar Wilde Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet rented rooms at 10-11 for five months in 1893-1894.
• John Wilkes, English journalist and politician, lived there in 1756.

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