EMMELINE PANKHURST and Dame CHRISTABEL PANKHURST - 50 Clarendon Road Notting Hill London W11 3AD

Clarendon Road is a street in the

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (often known by its initialism as RBKC) is an Inner London, Inner London borough with Royal borough, royal status. It is the List of English districts by area, smallest borough in London and the secon ...

, in the

Notting Hill Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a wikt:cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan and multiculturalism, multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting ...

district of West London. It runs roughly south to north from

Holland Park Avenue Holland Park Avenue is a street located in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in west central London. The street runs from Notting Hill Gate in the east to the Holland Park Roundabout in the west, forms a part of the old west road ...

. It is named after

George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (12 January 180027 June 1870) was an English diplomat and statesman from the Villiers family. He served a succession of Whig and Liberal administrations. This included as Viceroy in f ...

, who was

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when the road was built. The suffragists

Emmeline Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst (; Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the women's suffrage, right to vote in United Kingdom of Great Brita ...

and her daughter

Christabel Pankhurst Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst (; 22 September 1880 – 13 February 1958) was a British suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she directed Suffragette bombing and arson ca ...

lived at no. 50, where in 2006 an

English Heritage English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, a battlefield, medieval castles, Roman forts, historic industrial sites, Lis ...

blue plaque was erected. A later resident,

Mark Arnold-Forster Mark Arnold-Forster, DSO, DSC (16 April 1920 – 25 December 1981) was an English journalist and author. He is best remembered for his book ''The World at War'', which accompanied the 1973 television series of the same name. Early years H ...

, journalist and author, lived there until his death in 1981. The author

Arthur Machen Arthur Machen ( or ; 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh people, Welsh author and mysticism, mystic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for his influential supernatural ...

(1863–1947) lived at no. 23, and in the 1880s wrote of his life here in his memoirs ''Far Off Things'' (1922) and ''Things Near and Far'' (1923). The Embassy of Tajikistan in London is at no. 110. In December 2022, Clarendon Road was reckoned to be the fifth most expensive street in England.

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"Clarendon Rad"
The Ladbroke Association. {{Coord, 51.51124, -0.21010, region:GB_type:landmark, display=title Notting Hill Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea