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Number 14 was the home of  Charles Townley, a noted antiquary and collector.   ///play.studio.ritual

 

William Smith, a pioneer of religious liberty and supporter of the abolition of slavery, lived at number 16.

 

This was also the home of Lord Fisher, OM., Admiral of the Fleet, was a celebrated innovator, strategist and developer of the Royal Navy.  He served as First Sea Lord at the beginning of World War 1.                                      

Number 20 was the home of Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston.   

 

NOTE: numbers 16 & 20 in this street share the same postcode and ‘what3words’ location shown here… ///foal.ramp.salads
 

Lord Haldane, who lived at number 28, was a statesman, lawyer and philosopher who reformed the British Army in the period ending up to World War I.   ///swift.asking.scans

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James Mill and John Stuart Mill were both eminent British philosophers and lived at number 40. The Latter was called "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century”. He thought that liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control. Mill was a proponent of ethical theory of utilitarianism, (see below).  ///refers.monkey.ruby

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