Argyll Street

[1] The future Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister Lord Aberdeen bought Argyll House and made it his London residence for many years.

[2] Following Aberdeen's death in 1860, Argyll House was demolished and the site redeveloped, eventually becoming a West End theatre, the London Palladium.

Notable residents in the street have included William Roy, the pioneer of the Ordnance Survey, and the writers Washington Irving and Germaine de Staël, all of whom are commemorated with blue plaques.

[5][6][7] In addition the botanist Joseph Banks was born there in 1743[8] while the British statesman and future Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder married his wife Hester at her lodgings in Argyll Street in 1754.

[9] Brian Epstein (1934–1967) managed the Beatles and other artists from his NEMS Enterprises offices at Sutherland House 5–6 Argyll Street from 1964, the high tide of Beatlemania, until his death in 1967.

The London Palladium .
Oxford Circus tube station where Argyll Street meets Oxford Street.
American writer Washington Irving lived in the street in the early 1830s.