Talk:Belgravia

Name
Is this place named after Belgrave? Simply south 15:43, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * As noted in the article about Belgrave Square there is a village called Belgrave close to the Duke of Westminister's country house Eaton Hall so most likely the name is derived from that. Brammen 23:36, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Pimlico Road
Pimlico Road is not near Belgravia, but north of Kensington ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.129.57.43 (talk) 23:15, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Paint of Magnolia
On a guided tour through Belgravia I once learned that the houses owned by Duke of Westminster always have to be painted in Magnolia, the Duke's favourite colour and that the paint has to be refreshed every five years. Could somebody kindly find out if this is (still) true and mention it in the article? Thank you. --192.109.50.228 (talk) 13:30, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Lowndes Square
There is probably more up to date information available about the two houses bought by the Russian. Were they merged? What are they valued at today? --Greenmaven (talk) 05:40, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Kensington and/or Chelsea
Before the boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea were merged in 1965, was Belgravia in one or the other? It's odd that the article doesn't say. Do Londoners no longer distinguish between "in Kensington" and "in Chelsea"? —Tamfang (talk) 05:09, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Named after title?
We state: "The area takes its name from one of the Duke's subsidiary titles, Viscount Belgrave." Does it actually do so, or does it take its name from Belgrave Square? (Obviously the square was named for the title, but "named after a square which is named after a title" is different to "named after a title".) Proteus (Talk) 11:56, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * The London Encyclopedia says "Takes it name from Belgrave in Cheshire, a small village on the Eaton estate of the Grosvenor family", while for Belgrave Square it says "Takes its name from a Cheshire village (see Belgravia)". Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  11:41, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Past residents
Notable residents have included Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) and Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940), American philanthropist George Peabody (1795–1869), Polish composer Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), actress Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976), actress Vivien Leigh (1913–1967), Beatles' manager Brian Epstein (1934–1967), novelist Ian Fleming (1908–1964), twice President of Colombia Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo (1886–1959), Irish film director Brian Desmond Hurst (1930s–1986), actors Sir Sean Connery and Sir Roger Moore, Frankenstein author Mary Shelley (1797–1851), the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), Lieutenant Colonel Philip Edward Hardwick (1875–1919) who was the son of the architect Philip Charles Hardwick, anatomist Henry Gray, author of Gray's Anatomy and in her retirement, former Prime Minister, The Rt. Hon. Baroness Thatcher, who lived in Chester Square.

It is also the birthplace of Lord Randolph Churchill (father of Sir Winston Churchill) and actor Sir Christopher Lee. The missing Lord Lucan lived at 46 Lower Belgrave Street, Belgravia.

Charity HQs
Just a passing comment: any charity that paid rents at those levels would be grossly in breach of trust.Ehrenkater (talk) 14:45, 14 December 2017 (UTC)