Lower Belgrave Street

Lower Belgrave Street is a street in London's Belgravia district.

46 Lower Belgrave Street, last family home of the 7th Lord Lucan
The Plumbers Arms

It runs north-west to south-east and begins as a continuation of Upper Belgrave Street where it meets Eaton Square. It crosses one through-street, Ebury Street, and ends in a t-junction facing Victoria station's west front at Buckingham Palace Road.

Among the notable buildings are a mid-19th-century (initial category, Grade II-listed) Plumbers Arms at no 14. Another is a small primary school.[1]

Notable residents

  • Sir Francis Taylor Piggott (1852–1925), jurist and author, born at no 31[2]
  • Inez Holden (1903–1974), writer and Bohemian social figure and journalist, lived until her death at no 47A[3]
  • John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan and his estranged family lived at no 46. He had his permanent home at Elizabeth Street instead when he on 7 November 1974, according to his wife he returned, causing her wounds and to flee to the local pub and gave police evidence he must have been the culprit of the bludgeoning to death of their children's nanny in her basement. He was presumed dead in 1999 for probate purposes and in 2016 absolutely after his immediate disappearance.[4]

References

  1. Historic England, "The Plumbers Arms (1222426)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 4 September 2014
  2. Peter Wesley-Smith. "Piggott, Sir Francis Taylor (1852-1925), jurist and writer : Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxfordindex.oup.com. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  3. "The London Gazette" (PDF). Thegazette.co.uk\accessdate=2017-03-19. 18 June 1974.
  4. Edwardes, Charlotte (4 November 2001). "Revealed: the Lucan crime scene". Telegraph. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

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