Old Burlington Street

[3] Mark Akenside, physician and poet and author of The Pleasures of the Imagination lived in the street from 1762 until his death in 1770.

15 was later occupied by Lewis Durlacher (1792-1864), a chiropodist who was appointed as surgeon-chiropodist to the royal household in 1823 and served under George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria and later by his son Montague Durlacher (1824-1894), who succeeded his father Lewis in the role of surgeon-chiropodist to the royal household.

Samuel Cartwright (1788-1864), Dentist in Ordinary to George IV, lived at and ran his practice from 32 Old Burlington Street.

He attended the Prince Regent's daughter, Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, during her labour in November 1817.

At a later date the house was occupied by Lord Cornwallis (in whose army Asgill served during the American Revolution), until his death in October 1805.

She had first come with her family to take rooms for the season in 1842, and later at the height of her fame in 1857 made it the 'little War Office' where she directed the movement for the reform of the Army medical services".

From 1785 to 1789, it was enlarged and altered for Lord Uxbridge by the architects John Vardy the Younger and Joseph Bonomi the Elder.

Old Burlington Street looking north.
The position of Old Burlington Street in London.
James Wolfe, later General Wolfe, lived in the street as a young officer.
Advert for accommodation placed by Suffragette Violet Bland in the Army and Navy Gazette, 1916