Cardigan House

In 1794 it was rented by the Duke of Clarence, later to become William IV, who lived there until 1797 with his mistress the Irish actress Dorothea Jordan and their children.

[1] It then passed into the hands of the Earls of Cardigan as a country retreat in what was still a rural area.

[2] It should not be confused with Cardigan House in Lincoln's Inn Fields, the London townhouse of the Earls.

The scene was depicted in an 1819 painting England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday by the artist J. M. W.

[5] In 1925 the house was purchased by the British Legion for expansion of the Poppy Factory on Petersham Road.