In the mid-nineteenth century its inhabitants were the animals, servants, shopkeepers, and tradesmen who served the wealthy streets adjacent to Kinnerton.

[2][4] In the mid-1830s Sir Benjamin Brodie provided the capital to purchase a building at the northern end of Kinnerton Street to be the new medical school for the nearby St George's Hospital.

[4] From 1836, St George's, then based nearby at Hyde Park Corner rented buildings for its School of Anatomy and Medicine.

[8] From 1940, Gerald Hamilton, who had served prison sentences for bankruptcy, theft, gross indecency and being a threat to national security, and his jazzband leader lover Ken "Snakehips" Johnson lived at 91 Kinnerton Street.

[9] In the mid-1970s, the journalist and author Christopher Robbins lived with the film director Brian Desmond Hurst in his "grandly shabby Georgian house" in the street.