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词条 Hereford Square
释义

  1. History

  2. Notable buildings and residents

  3. Fictional references

  4. References

  5. External links

Hereford Square is a garden square in South Kensington, London SW7. It lies to the west of Gloucester Road, which forms the east side of the square. Wetherby Place is the western continuation, running off the north-west corner of the square.

History

Hereford Square was built by the architect Thomas Holmes from 1845 to 1850.[1]

Notable buildings and residents

  • George Crichton Wells (1914-1999), dermatologist[2]
  • George Borrow (1803-1881), lived at no 22
  • Frederick William Hulme (1816-1884), landscape painter and illustrator, lived at no 4, according to the 1851 census[3]

Fictional references

The central protagonist in Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head lives in Hereford Square.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.opensquares.org/detail/Hereford.html|title=Hereford Square SW7|website=www.opensquares.org|accessdate=11 December 2017}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/5043|title=Munks Roll Details for George Crichton Wells|website=munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk|accessdate=11 December 2017}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50316|title=Hereford Square area: The Day estate - British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk|accessdate=11 December 2017}}

External links

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3 : South Kensington|1845 establishments in England|Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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