[1] On 1 May 1730, Pulteney signed an agreement with Thomas Phillips of St. George's, carpenter, and John Mist of St. Anne's paviour.
[1] Willem van de Velde the Elder, the Dutch seascape painter, was living in Sackville Street at the time of his death in 1693.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Thomas Gray and William Constable operated as jewellers and goldsmiths in the street.
[7] Snow is considered one of the fathers of modern epidemiology, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, London, in 1854.
A green plaque was unveiled on 27 May 1994[8] which reads "Westminster City Council Dr. James Yearsley, MD, MRCS, LRCP, 1805 - 1869, founded the Metropolitan Ear Institute here in 1838.