Notable residents have included: • No. 6 was home to the poet
Stéphane Mallarmé in 1863, and a
blue plaque commemorates this. • No. 13 was home to the writer and lawyer
Sir John Stoddart, who died there in 1856. • No. 14 was home to the musical theatre composer
Edward Fitzwilliam. • No. 21 was home to the political reformer
Francis Place and his wife, the actress
Louisa Chatterley, from 1833 to 1851, and a
blue plaque commemorates Place's residency. It had previously been the home of the Italian conductor Ernesto Spagnoletti between 1829 and 1833. • No. 25 was home to the novelist
E. F. Benson, and a
blue plaque commemorates this. It is the setting for his 1927 book
Lucia in London. • No. 27 was used from 1861 (along with No. 48) as a convent and convalescent home by the
Nursing Sisters of the Church of England, who later moved to St Peter's Convent, Kilburn, then to Woking; in the early 20th century it was a nursing home owned by a Mrs Lucy Catherine Jervis. Lucile Agnes Dickson, the wife of the early film director
William Kennedy Dickson, died at the house in 1908 under the care of Mrs Jervis, and Dickson would later rent rooms at the house for several years. • No. 28 was purchased by
Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon, in 1953 and is now home to the Faringdon Collection of art. • No. 31 was bought in the mid-2000s by
Achilleas Kallakis, "Britain's most successful serial confidence trickster", for £28 million; he had the entire garden dug out to a depth of 30 feet to build a three-storey basement. The project was abandoned in 2008. As of 2017, it is for sale at £25 million. • No. 35 was home to
William Hook Morley,
barrister and
orientalist, who died there in 1860. • No. 39 is the London home of
Roland Emmerich, German film director, screenwriter, and producer. • No. 43 was home to
Richard Burchett, artist and educator.
Mary Melissa Hoadley Dodge, the American heiress, lived there. The writer on natural history
Mary Roberts lived and died there. The engineer
Charles Anthony Corbett Wilson was born there in 1827.
William Henry Rhodes-Moorhouse, the
Royal Air Force fighter pilot and
flying ace killed in action during the
Battle of Britain, was born there in 1914.
Robin Hill, 8th Marquess of Downshire, was born there in 1929. In the late 19th century the Brompton district was very popular with actors, and Brompton Square was at some point home to the performers
John Liston (No. 40),
Mary and
Robert Keeley (No. 19),
J. B. Buckstone (No. 6) and
Horace and
Alfred Wigan. ==References==