Beauchamp Place
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Beauchamp Place is a fashionable shopping street in the Knightsbridge
district of London. It was known as Grove Place until 1885.
Beauchamp Place was also a 16th century mansion of the Seymour family
, whose titles included Viscount Beauchamp. It belonged to Edward Symour, Viscount Beauchamp
who became the Earl of Hertford and Lord Protector of England.
Knightsbridge
Knightsbridge is a road which gives its name to an exclusive district lying to the west of central London. The road runs along the south side of Hyde Park, west from Hyde Park Corner, spanning the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea...
district of London. It was known as Grove Place until 1885.
Beauchamp Place was also a 16th century mansion of the Seymour family
Seymour family
Seymour, or St. Maur, is the name of an English family in which several titles of nobility have from time to time been created, and of which the Duke of Somerset is the head.-Origins:...
, whose titles included Viscount Beauchamp. It belonged to Edward Symour, Viscount Beauchamp
Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford
Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baron Beauchamp of Hache and 1st Earl of Hertford, KG was the son of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, by his second wife Anne Stanhope....
who became the Earl of Hertford and Lord Protector of England.