Many famous people have lived (and continue to live) in the Walk: No. 1: • Samuel Prout Newcombe (b. 1824) entrepreneur, leased the property from the ground landlord, the
Earl Cadogan, in 1891 shortly after it had been rebuilt. Newcombe had made his money in the 1850s from 'The London School of Photography', a photographic portrait studio that soon had branches across London and beyond, exploiting the public's appetite for
carte de visite portraits. His daughter
Bertha Newcombe (1857–1947), who lived in the house until her father's death in 1912, was an artist, illustrator and suffragist. She had a relationship with
George Bernard Shaw, who sat for a portrait in her studio within the house. No.2: •
John Barrymore American actor, lived for a short time at No.2, on the corner with Flood Street. •
Vera Brittain, novelist and pacifist, and her husband,
George Catlin, lived at number 2 before and during the Second World War. No.3: • Admiral
William Henry Smyth, and later
Keith Richards, lived at number 3, which in 1945 became a
National Trust property housing the
Benton Fletcher collection of keyboard instruments. No.4: •
George Eliot spent the last three weeks of her life at
number 4. •
William Sandys Wright Vaux, antiquarian. •
William Dyce, Scottish painter and arts tutor. •
Daniel Maclise, painter. •
Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, acquired number 4 in 2015. No.5: • The miser
John Camden Neild lived at
number 5. •
Howard Frank, English estate agent and co-founder of the Knight Frank estate agent chain. No.6: • Sir
Arthur Sullivan, English composer, attended boarding school at number 6 in 1854. •
Edward Dundas Butler, translator and senior librarian at the
Department of Printed Books, British Museum. •
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, British Liberal politician,
Secretary of State for War during
World War II. •
Gerald Scarfe now lives there. • The house has a plaque to commemorate
Margaret Damer Dawson, who was an early head of the
women's police service. No.10: •
David Lloyd George lived at number 10. No.11: • Sir
George Scott Robertson, Colonial Administrator and traveller in Afghanistan, lived at number 11, as did Sir
Colin Scott-Moncrieff, British civil engineer, most notably in colonial Egypt. No. 12: •
Sir John Scott Lillie, JP, decorated
Peninsular War veteran,
Deputy Lieutenant of
Middlesex, inventor and political activist lived at no. 12 (previously, no. 13) Cheyne Walk and added a floor to it. The building was demolished in 1887, but elements from it were later used in the reconstruction of 1 Cheyne Walk. No.13: •
Ralph Vaughan Williams lived at number 13 from 1905 to 1928. There, he wrote works including his first three symphonies, the
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis,
The Lark Ascending, and
Hugh the Drover. No.14: •
Bertrand Russell lived at number 14 in 1902. No.15: • The landscape painter
Cecil Gordon Lawson lived at
number 15 (a number of his works still hang there). • The engraver
Henry Thomas Ryall lived at number 15. • 18th-century Admiral Sir
John Balchen lived at number 15. • The Allason family, well known for their political and literary influence, lived at number 15. • The
Baron and
Baroness Courtney of Penwith lived at number 15. •
Hester Dowden, English spiritualist, lived at number 15. No.16: •
Dante Gabriel Rossetti lived at number 16 (where he was banned from keeping peacocks due to the noise) from 1862 to 1882. •
Hall Caine, novelist, as Rossetti's housemate. •
Frederick Sandys, painter, as Rossetti's housemate 1866–67. •
Algernon Charles Swinburne. •
Florence Kate Upton, English illustrator, creator of the
Golliwog character. • John
Paul Getty II lived here from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. •
Jacques Blumenthal, German pianist and composer. No.17: •
Thomas Attwood (composer) (1765–1838) lived at number 17 for some years up to his death in 1838. He was organist at
St Paul's Cathedral from 1796, and of the Chapel Royal from 1836. He was a pupil of Mozart. Thomas Attwood is buried in the crypt of St Paul's underneath the organ. No.18: • Number 18 was renowned for being the home of the curious museum (knackatory) and tavern known as
Don Saltero's Coffee House. The proprietor was James Salter, who was for many years the servant of Sir Hans Sloane. •
Mortimer Menpes, the watercolourist and etcher, shared a flat with
Whistler. •
Edward Arthur Walton lived here. No.22: • Dame
Elizabeth Taylor, English actress, rented this house during the 1982 West End run of her Broadway play,
The Little Foxes. No.23: •
Sol Campbell, footballer. No.24: •
Amanda Eliasch, photographer and documentary filmmaker No.25 •
Lord Browne, former CEO of BP. No.27: •
Bram Stoker, Irish theatre manager and novelist, author of
Dracula, lived at No.27. No. 74: 0815607318 • Architect
C. R. Ashbee designed number 74 and lived there off and on until 1917. He also designed number 38, 39. No.89: •
Charles Edward Mudie, English publisher and founder of Mudie's Lending Library, was born 1818 in Cheyne Walk, where his father owned a circulating library, stationery and bookbinding business at number 89. No.91: • Artist
Charles Conder lived at 91 Cheyne Walk, 1904–1906 No.92 (Belle Vue): • The chemist
Charles Hatchett, the poet
William Bell Scott, and the anatomist
John Marshall lived at
Belle Vue House, number 92. • Novelist
Ken Follett and his wife, the politician
Barbara Follett, lived here. •
Patrick Wall, Conservative MP, lived here. No.93: •
Elizabeth Gaskell was born at number 93. No.95: •
Anna Lea Merritt, after the death of her husband, Henry Merritt in 1877, Anna moved to No.95 where she set up her art studio, the earliest known date of her being registered at this address was in January 1879. No. 96–101 (
Lindsey House, presently known as No. 100) •
Diana Mitford lived at number 96 with her first husband
Bryan Guinness in 1932. • Sir
Marc Brunel, who designed the
Thames Tunnel, lived at number 98. • His son
Isambard Kingdom Brunel also lived there. •
Hugh Lane, art dealer, collector and founder of the
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art lived at number 100 (
Lindsey House) from 1909 until his death on the
RMS Lusitania in 1915. No.104: •
Hilaire Belloc lived at number 104, as did the artist
Walter Greaves. No. 107 • Sir
Walter Westley Russell, English painter and arts tutor No. 108 •
John Tweed, sculptor and friend of
Auguste Rodin, lived at number 108. No. 109: • Sir
Philip Steer lived at number 109. No. 113 • Suffragette
Isabella Potbury and her husband, the playwright and actor
Charles Nicholas Spencer. No.116: •
Hope Emily Allen, American medieval history scholar, in particular, of the medieval mystic
Richard Rolle. No.119: •
J. M. W. Turner died at number 119 in 1851. •
Rolling Stones musician
Ronnie Wood also lived here. No.120: •
Sylvia Pankhurst lived at number 120 after leaving university. No.122: •
Peter Warlock, English composer, lived at number 122 in 1921. •
George Melly, jazz musician, lived in a flat sublet by Whidborne. •
Bridget Keir, English landscape painter. •
Gabriel Atkin (1897–1937), English landscape painter and architect, who was a lover of the poet
Siegfried Sassoon, lived here. • Also
Timothy Whidborne, English portrait painter. •
Raymond McIntyre, New Zealand painter, lived at number 122 from 1911 to 1918. •
Carlyle Mansions •
Richard Addinsell, English composer, lived in flat 1. •
Gordon Harker, English actor, lived in flat 11. •
Edward Robey, a lawyer in the Acid Bath Murders case of the serial killer
John George Haigh, lived in flat 11. •
T. S. Eliot, American poet and writer, lived in flat 19. •
Shapur Kharegat, journalist, editor and former Asia Director of
The Economist lived at flat 17. •
John Davy Hayward, theatre and literary critic, lived in flat 19. •
Henry James spent his last years and died here in flat 21. •
Erskine Childers lived in flat 20, with his family, and wrote his novel
The Riddle of the Sands there as well. He also lived at 16 Cheyne Gardens for several years. •
Ian Fleming, novelist, Intelligence officer, creator of spy
James Bond, lived in flat 24. He also lived briefly at number 122 Cheyne Walk •
W. Somerset Maugham, British novelist, lived in flat 27. •
Lionel Davidson lived at Carlyle Mansions from 1976 to 1984, where he wrote
The Chelsea Murders, a CWA Gold Dagger winner. •
Sol Campbell has a six-storey, five bedroom house in Cheyne Walk, and an apartment in Carlyle Mansions. •
Edith Cheesman, watercolour artist, lived at number 127 in 1911, since demolished and now covered by the World's End Estate, where
The Clash frontman
Joe Strummer lived. •
George Weidenfeld, publisher, who became Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea, lived here from the 1960s until his death on 20 January 2016. •
George Best once had a flat here. •
Laurence Olivier and
Jill Esmond lived here in the 1930s. •
Mary Sidney lived at
Crosby Hall from 1609 to 1615. • In July 1972, during a short-lived ceasefire, an IRA delegation that included Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness held talks in a house in Cheyne Walk with a British government team led by Northern Ireland Secretary William Whitelaw. • The Old Cheyneans – former pupils of Sloane Grammar School, Hortensia Road, Chelsea – take their name from the association with Cheyne Walk and Sir Hans Sloane who lived there. •
Colin Colahan, Australian painter and sculptor, lived in Cheyne Walk. •
Augustus Pugin, English architect, known for his work on the
Palace of Westminster, lived briefly on Cheyne Walk in 1841. •
Susan Fleetwood, British actress, lived on Cheyne Walk. Her brother is
Mick Fleetwood, a member of the British-American rock group
Fleetwood Mac. ==Fictional residents==