Harley Street
Harley Street is a street in Marylebone, central London, which has been noted since the 19th century for its large number of private specialists in medicine and surgery.[1] It was named after Thomas Harley who was Lord Mayor of London in 1767.[2]
Overview
Since the 19th century, the number of doctors, hospitals, and medical organizations in and around Harley Street has greatly increased. Records show that there were around 20 doctors in 1860, 80 by 1900, and almost 200 by 1914. When the National Health Service was established in 1948, there were around 1,500. Today, there are more than 3,000 people employed in the Harley Street area, in clinics, medical and paramedical practices, and hospitals such as The Harley Street Clinic, Harley Street Fertility Clinic, Sonoworld Diagnostic Services, The London Women's Clinic and The London Clinic.[3][4][5]
It has been speculated that doctors were originally attracted to the area by the development of commodious housing and central proximity to the important railway stations of Paddington, King's Cross, St Pancras, Euston and, later, Marylebone. The nearest Tube stations are Regent's Park and Oxford Circus.
Land ownership
Harley Street is part of the Howard de Walden Estate.
Notable occupants
Many famous people have lived or practised in Harley Street, including the Victorian Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, the artist J. M. W. Turner and the speech therapist Lionel Logue. Queen's College, founded in 1848 and one of the oldest girls' schools in England, is situated on Harley Street.
- Sir Charles Lyell (lawyer, author and geologist). Lived at No.11 (which is now No.73).[6]
- Sir William Beechey (Portrait painter) lived at No.13.[7]
- Sir Grantly Dick-Read (Obstetrician) lived and had his practice at No.23. Green Plaque.[8]
- Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran, Winston Churchill's personal physician, had a private practice at No. 29 during the 1920s and 1930s.[9]
- Sir Harold Ridley (Pioneering Ophthalmologist). Lived at No.53.[10]
- Sir James Galloway (1862-1922), dermatologist, practised at No. 54
- Sir Stewart Duke-Elder (Ophthalmologist) lived & worked at No.63. Blue Plaque.[10]
- J. M. W. Turner (Landscape painter) lived at No.64 from 1799 to 1805.[11]
- Allan Ramsay (Portrait painter) lived at No.67.[12]
- Violet Edith Grey-Egerton, daughter of Sir Philip le Belward Grey-Egerton, 11th Bt. and Hon. Henrietta Elizabeth Sophia Denison, and wife of John Gaspard le Marchant Romilly, 3rd Baron Romilly, died on 1 March 1906 at age 36 at 77 Harley Street.[13]
- Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (British Politician, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer) lived at No.86.[7]
- Harriet Harman MP QC, Labour politician, born at 108 Harley Steet.
- George Frederick Bodley (Greek Revival Architect) lived at No.109 from 1862 to 1873. Blue Plaque.
- Lionel Logue (Speech therapist), from Australia, had his practice at No.146. He helped King George VI overcome his stammer with lessons here. There is a Green Plaque.[14]
- William Henry Giles Kingston, Victorian author of boys' adventure novels, was born on Harley Street, 28 February 1814.[15]
- Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, had his first London residence in Harley Street.
- John St. John Long, a famous quack, practiced in Harley Street from 1827–1834.
Fictional References
In Agatha Christie’s The Secret of Chimneys (1925), Lord Caterham ruefully mentions that his doctor advised him to “avoid all worry. So easy for a man sitting in his consulting room in Harley Street to say that.” Earlier in the book, a surgeon in Harley Street is mentioned among names listed in a phone book.
In Agatha Christie’s Crooked House (1949), Edith de Haviland visits Harley Street.
See also
- List of eponymous roads in London
- Macquarie Street, Sydney
- Rodney Street, the Harley Street of the North, in Liverpool
- Welbeck Street
- Wimpole Street
References
- ↑ "Street stories - Harley Street". www.marylebonevillage.com. Retrieved 2017-09-27.
- ↑ "Ledbury & District U3A Local History Group". Malvern Gazette. 5 November 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
- ↑ History of Harley Street at Harley Street Guide (commercial website)
- ↑ Alisha, Ali (14 July 2013). "Psychological Therapy in London". London: The Private Therapy Clinic. p. 7-8. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
Counselling Approaches
- ↑ "IVF Clinics | Fertility Clinics | The London Women's Clinic London". www.londonwomensclinic.com. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
- ↑ "Sir Charles Lyell Facts, information, pictures - Encyclopedia.com articles about Sir Charles Lyell".
- 1 2 Henry Benjamin Wheatley; Peter Cunningham (24 February 2011). London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions. Cambridge University Press. pp. 192–. ISBN 978-1-108-02807-3.
- ↑ Grantly Dick-Read
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 59. Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 503. ISBN 0-19-861409-8.
- 1 2 David J. Apple (2006). Sir Harold Ridley and His Fight for Sight: He Changed the World So that We May Better See it. SLACK Incorporated. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-1-55642-786-2.
- ↑ "The Turner Society".
- ↑ Christopher Hibbert; John Keay; Julia Keay (23 March 2010). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4050-4925-2.
- ↑ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
- ↑ "Historical plaques about Lionel Logue Open Plaques".
- ↑ Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Between the Years 1851-1900
External links
- The Harley Street Guide
- George Harley, doctor/3230 at Who Named It?