Red Lion Square

[3] By 1720, it was a fashionable part of London: the eminent judge Sir Bernard Hale was a resident of Red Lion Square.

[4] In the 1860s, on the other hand, it had clearly become decidedly unfashionable: the writer Anthony Trollope in his novel Orley Farm (1862) humorously reassures his readers that one of his characters is perfectly respectable, despite living in Red Lion Square.

[5] A notable resident of the square was John Harrison, the world-renowned inventor of the marine chronometer, who lived at number 12, where he died in 1776.

[6] At 35 St. George's Mansions in the square, suffragette sisters Irene and Hilda Dallas had lived and had evaded the 1911 census in protest that women did not have a right to vote.

At No 4 Parton Street, a cul-de-sac off the square subsequently obliterated by St Martin's College of Art in Southampton Row (later Central Saint Martins), a group of young writers, including Dylan Thomas, George Barker, David Gascoyne and John Pudney, gathered about the bookshop run by David Archer.

[9] On 15 June 1974 a meeting by the National Front in Conway Hall resulted in a protest by anti-fascist groups.