Eaton Place
Eaton Place is a street in London's Belgravia district.
It runs off the top left hand corner of Eaton Square and then parallel to it until a junction with Upper Belgrave Street.
Notable events, establishments and inhabitants
- The 19th century sugar-manufacture expert Shute Barrington Moody, who was the brother of the founder of British Columbia Major-General Richard Clement Moody, resided at Burton Street, Eaton Square, Belgravia.
- John Towneley, MP for Beverley and later a family trustee at the British Museum, lived at no 76 in 1860.
- The Embassy of Hungary, London, is at no 35.
- After Great Britain's recognition of the communist regime operating in Poland as the legitimate Polish government, the Polish government-in-exile was forced to relocate from the Polish embassy to no 43, which prior to this event was the president's personal residence. This period ended in 1990 following the 1990 [Polish presidential election|first free presidential elections] after the May Coup in Poland, during which Lech Wałęsa was elected as the president. The government-in-exile was thereby disbanded, and its president handed over various insignia of the Second Polish Republic to Wałęsa.
- The 1971 TV series Upstairs, Downstairs is supposed to be set at 165 Eaton Place; but there is no number 165, so they used number 65 and painted a "1" in front of the house number for outside shots.
- On 22 June 1922, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, was assassinated outside his home at no 36 by Irish Republican Army members Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan.
- The actress Dame Joan Collins resides in Eaton Place.