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Lexham Gardens is a street in
Lexham Gardens is a street in South Kensington
South Kensington is a district at the West End of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton. Its name was supplanted with the advent of the ra ...
, London.
Although somewhat irregular in shape, the largest part of the street runs west to east from Earls Court Road to Cromwell Road
Cromwell Road is a major London road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, designated as part of the A4 road (Great Britain), A4. It was created in the 19th century and is said to be named after Richard Cromwell, son of Oliver Cromwel ...
.
The Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, London is at 5–7.
Garden
Sir Cyril Taylor, the educator and social entrepreneur, purchased the freehold of a one-acre garden square, near to his London home in Lexham Gardens, by auction in 1989. With the assistance of designer Wilf Simms, he redesigned and replanted the garden, and saved it from the hands of property developers who wanted to build an underground car park underneath. In the garden's first summer of 1991, Lexham Gardens was awarded first prize in the All London Garden Squares Competition, competing against entries from 100 other squares.Notable residents
Notable residents included the cricketer Learie Constantine, at no 101. Sir Alexander Carmichael Bruce, the second Assistant Commissioner "A" of the Metropolitan Police, lived at no 82. Sir Juland Danvers, administrator and civil servant in India, lived at no. 103 after his retirement. The civil engineer Horace Bell lived and died at no 114.Kenny Everett
Kenny Everett (born Maurice James Christopher Cole; 25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995) was an English radio Disc Jockey, DJ and television entertainer, known for his zany comedic style. After spells on pirate radio and Radio Luxembourg in the m ...
, the comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer lived at no 91 from 1981 to his death in 1995.
Derek Nimmo
Derek Robert Nimmo (19 September 1930 – 24 February 1999) was an English character actor, producer and author. He is best remembered for his comedic upper class "silly ass" and clerical roles, including Revd Mervyn Noote in the BBC1 sitcom ...
, character actor, producer and author lived in Lexham Gardens.
The actor Denholm Elliott was born at no. 48.
On 15 June 1952, Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent Christine Granville was stabbed to death in the Shellbourne Hotel, 1 Lexham Gardens, by an "obsessed" Dennis George Muldowney, who was hanged on 30 September.
Charles Bean, the Australian official war correspondent of World War I and future official historian of the war, shared lodgings with the future director of the Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) is a national war memorial, war museum, museum and archive dedicated to all Australians who died as a result of war, including peacekeeping duties. The AWM is located in Campbell, Australian Capital Territory, C ...
John Treloar at no 1 for part of the war.
In fiction
A house in Lexham Gardens is used as a ' safe house' for a meeting of British intelligence officers in John le Carré’s 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and in the 1979BBC
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television adaptation of the novel. A mews off Lexham Gardens is home to SIS officer Tanya Acocella in Charles Cumming's 2011 novel The Trinity Six.
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