{{Short description|Garden square in Earl's Court, London}} {{Use dmy dates|date= August 2023}} {{Use British English|date= August 2023}} thumb|Nevern Square '''Nevern Square''' is a garden square in the Earl's Court district of central London.
William Edwardes, 2nd Baron Kensington (1777–1852), Irish peer and British Member of parliament, was the original owner and developer of the Edwardes estate, where part of Earl's Court now stands. The family originated in Pembrokeshire which accounts for Earl's Court street names such as Nevern, Penywern and Philbeach.
Nevern Square was developed in the 1880s by the builder Robert Whitaker on behalf of Lord Kensington.<ref name="Nevernsquaregarden">{{cite web |title=The History of Nevern Square |url=https://www.nevernsquaregarden.com/history |website=nevernsquaregarden.com |access-date=19 August 2023}}</ref> From 1880 to 1884, Robert Whitaker built the east, north and south sides, and following his death in January 1885, George Whitaker built the west side of the square from 1885 to 1886.<ref name="Nevernsquaregarden"/> The architect was Walter Graves.<ref name="BHO">{{cite web |title=Plate 122: Nevern Square |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol42/plate-122#h2-0001 |website=BHO |access-date=19 August 2023}}</ref>
==Notable residents== * Vladimir Galitzine, Russian émigré, lived briefly in Nevern Square in 1921 before moving to Chessington Hall in Surrey. * Glyn Idris Jones, actor, writer and director, was living at 63 Nevern Square in 1958.<ref>[https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/No_Official_Umbrella/FWDRlu05VfAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Nevern+Square%22&pg=PA160&printsec=frontcover Glyn Idris Jones. ''No Official Umbrella'' (2008), p. 160]</ref> * The writer Compton Mackenzie and his sister, actress Fay Compton, lived at No. 1 Nevern Square between 1901 and 1918.<ref>Andro Linklater. ''Compton Mackenzie: A Life'' (1992), p. 59</ref> * Jeffery Allen Marston, British military officer, died at 56 Nevern Square on 31 March 1911.<ref>{{cite newspaper The Times|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=hamlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=&docId=CS185793667&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title=Surgeon-General Marston|department=Obituaries|date=3 April 1911|page=11|issue=39549|accessdate=24 June 2018}}</ref> * H. G. Pélissier, theatrical producer, composer and satirist, died at 1 Nevern Square (his father-in-law's home) on 25 September 1913.<ref>N. T. P. Murphy, ‘Pélissier, Harry Gabriel (1874–1913)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008</ref> * John Proudfoot Stratton, Scottish physician, lived at 51 Nevern Square from the 1880s until his death in 1895.<ref>[https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Economist/Ts8jAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22John+Proudfoot+Stratton%22+%22Nevern%22&pg=PA1338&printsec=frontcover ''The Economist'', Vol. 53, Part 2, p. 1338]</ref>
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Category:Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Category:Garden squares in London
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