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18-745: The Stanhope Memorandum was a document written by Edward Stanhope , the Secretary of State for War of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , on 8 December 1888. It set out the overall strategic aims of the British Empire , and the way the British Army was to be employed towards these aims. It gave the priorities of the Army, in order, as: Edward Stanhope Edward Stanhope PC (24 September 1840 – 21 December 1893)

36-591: A mews house behind. Most of the houses are faced with white stucco , but some are faced with underlying high-quality brickwork. Sides are set 350 feet (110 m) apart 1,615 feet (492 m) apart. As to roads: the whole rectangle is divided into six compartments or zones as it is bisected lengthways by the Victoria or Buckingham Palace approach way to the King's Road which is very diversely and briefly successively named northeast of Sloane Square ). Crossways, it

54-604: A full terraced house costing on average £17 million — many of such town houses have been converted, within the same, protected structures, into upmarket apartments. The six adjoining, tree-planted, central gardens of Eaton Square are Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens . All of the buildings (No.s 1–7, 8-12A, 14–23, 24 and 24a to 48, 51–62, 63–66, Eaton House (No. 66a), 67–71, 72, 73–82, 83–102 and 103–118) are statutorily listed , specifically at Grade II* save as to 1 to 7 and 63 to 66a which are in

72-515: A heart attack, aged 53 whilst visiting his brother at the family estate of Chevening . His wife established a scholarship at Harrow in his name in 1895. Eaton Square Eaton Square is a rectangular, residential garden square in London 's Belgravia district. It is the largest square in London . It is one of the three squares built by the landowning Grosvenor family when they developed

90-482: Is spanned by four less important roads, all of which change name before during and after their transit across the square. All of the roads while in transit across the square assume the name Eaton Square and most of them are one-way, with no full outer circuit in any one direction permitted or possible. In 1900, the Welsh Industrial Association held an exhibition at 83 Eaton Square, rented by

108-492: The Winifred, Countess of Dundonald , the event was visited by Alexandra, Princess of Wales . The person presiding over the refreshment room exhibition was Kathleen, Duchess of Wellington, assisted by Mrs A. J. Warden, with a party of attractive ladies wearing the national costume of Wales accompanied by Ivor and Albertina Herbert of Llanover's Harpist playing for the occasion. Between 1916 and 1917, building 87 briefly became

126-699: The "Countess of Dundonald Hospital", treating many of the wounded in the Great War, George V and Queen Consort Mary of Teck visited the patients at the hospital, they were greeted by the Staff and Countess of Dundonald herself. Before World War II, homes on the street ranked as those of the upper class but was outranked by comparators in Belgrave Square , Grosvenor Square , St James's Square or Park Lane . The aftermath of that war saw most of those converted to commercial and institutional uses, leaving

144-600: The Board of Trade , and in 1878 moved up to Under-Secretary of State for India , where he was a key assistant to India Secretary Lord Cranbrook . After the Tories' fall from power in 1880, Stanhope supported Commons leader Sir Stafford Northcote against younger Tories led by Lord Randolph Churchill in internal Conservative party squabbling. When the Conservatives returned to the power, Stanhope became vice-president of

162-592: The Committee of Council on Education , with a seat in the cabinet, and almost immediately thereafter President of the Board of Trade . He moved up to major cabinet office in Salisbury's second government, serving first as Colonial Secretary from 1886 to 1887 and then as Secretary of State for War from 1887 to 1892 following a cabinet reshuffle in January 1887. As War Secretary, Stanhope fought for reform against

180-599: The Gentlemen of the South and the last for I Zingari. He played association football at school and remained a "keen fisherman and high class shot" throughout his life. In 1874 Stanhope was elected to the House of Commons for Mid Lincolnshire , a seat he held until 1885, and then represented Horncastle until his death. He soon rose to a position of prominence within the party. In 1875, he became Parliamentary Secretary to

198-601: The main part of Belgravia in the 19th century that are named after places in Cheshire — in this case Eaton Hall , the Grosvenor country house . It is larger but less grand than the central feature of the district, Belgrave Square , and both larger and grander than Chester Square . The first block was laid out by Thomas Cubitt from 1827. In 2016 it was named as the "Most Expensive Place to Buy Property in Britain", with

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216-618: The mainstream, initial category of grade II. No.s 103 to 105 are leased and internally converted into the Belgian Embassy, as is No. 106 for the Bolivian Embassy. The K6 red telephone box outside No. 103 is Grade II listed. The houses in Eaton Square are large, predominantly three-bay-wide buildings, joined in regular terraces in a classical style, with four or five main storeys, plus attic and basement and

234-656: The north-east end is St Peter's , a 200-feet-long, tree-lined Church of England church, in a classical style, fronted by a six-columned Ionic portico behind which is a slender clock tower. It was designed by Henry Hakewill and built between 1824 and 1827 (during the square's building). Between 1940 and 1944 the Belgian government in exile occupied its three numbers which have been long used as that country's embassy in Britain and further premises in central London as their lesser homes and offices. The Bellamy family of Upstairs, Downstairs lived in "165" Eaton Place , one of

252-743: The reactionary high officers – most notably the Duke of Cambridge , the Commander in Chief, and Sir Garnet Wolseley , the Adjutant-General. In spite of his own inexperience in military affairs and this formidable opposition, Stanhope achieved a fair amount, although it was his Liberal successor, Henry Campbell-Bannerman , who managed to push Cambridge into retirement. Stanhope married Lucy Constance Egerton at Eaton Square in 1870. The couple had no children. In December 1893, Stanhope died suddenly of

270-562: The square almost wholly residential, raising its prominence. Some of the houses remain undivided but many have been internally converted into flats or multi-storey instances ( maisonettes ) by permission or instruction of the Grosvenor Estate . These are often lateral conversions – that is, they cut across more than one of the original houses – let under typical long leases across the uppermost price bracket, their exact price depending on size, lease duration and amenity. The façades of

288-636: The square remain as imagined and built. Most but not all of the freeholds still belong to the Grosvenor Group. Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster , who inherited the Duke of Westminster title from his father Gerald Grosvenor in 2016, uses one as his London home. Until the 1920s, his predecessors lived in Grosvenor House the mansion forerunner to the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane facing Hyde Park . Co-fronting

306-515: Was a British Conservative Party politician who was Secretary of State for War from 1887 to 1892. Born in Belgravia in London in 1840, Stanhope was the second son of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope , by his wife Emily Harriet, daughter of General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet . Arthur Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope , was his elder brother and Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale , his younger brother. Educated at Harrow School , where he

324-577: Was in the cricket XI in 1857, and Christ Church, Oxford , Stanhope studied law, being called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1865. He played some cricket at university without making the Oxford First XI , but in 1861 played a single first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club . He played the game regularly for amateur sides such as I Zingari and Free Foresters and in 1879 made two further first-class appearances, one for

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