Bloomsbury - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

• Vanessa Bell (1879–1961), painter, sister of Virginia Woolf lived at 46 Gordon Square.
• William Copeland Borlase M.P. (1848–1899)
• Randolph Caldecott (1846–1886), illustrator, lived at No 46 Great Russell Street.
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882) lived at 12 Upper Gower St in 1839.
• George Dance (1741–1825), architect lived at 91 Gower Street.
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870), novelist lived at 14 Great Russell Street, Tavistock Square and 48 Doughty Street.
• Philip Hardwick (1792–1870) and Philip Charles Hardwick (1822–1892), father and son architects lived at 60 Russell Square for over ten years.
• John Maynard Keynes, lived for thirty years in Gordon Square.
• Bob Marley lived in 34 Ridgmount Gardens for 6 months in 1972.
• Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) lived at 24 Great James Street from 1921–1929.
• John Shaw Senior (1776–1832) and John Shaw Junior (1803–1870), father and son architects lived in Gower Street.
• Catherine Tate (b.1968), actress and comedienne, was brought up in the Brunswick Centre, close to Russell Square.
• Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), author, essayist, and diarist resided at 46 Gordon Square.
• Emanuel Litvinoff (1915-2011) author, poet, playwright and human rights campaigner lived for 46 years in Mecklenburgh Square.
• Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807–1880), architect lived at 77 Great Russell Street.
• William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), poet, dramatist and prose writer lived at Woburn Walk.
• Ricky Gervais, comedian, until recently lived in Southampton Row, Store Street and used to own one of the Penthouses in Bloomsbury Mansions on Russell Square, WC1
• George du Maurier (1834–1896), artist and writer, lived at 91 (formerly 46) Great Russell Street
• JM Barrie (1860–1937), playwright and novelist, lived in Guilford Street and Grenville Street when he first moved to London; it's where the Darling family in Peter Pan live.
• John Wyndham lived at the Penn Club in Tavistock Square (1924-38) and then (except for 1943-46 Army service) at the Club's new address at 21-22 Bedford Place, off Russell Square (its present address), until his marriage to fellow Penn Club adjoining room resident Grace Isabel Wilson in 1963.
• Mary Anne Everett Green Calenderer of State Papers, author of Lives of the Princesses of England, mother of Evelyn Everett-Green, a prolific 19th Century novelist.