Sir Cyril Taylor, the educator and social entrepreneur, purchased the freehold of a one-acre garden square, near to his London home in Lexham Gardens, by auction in 1989.[2] With the assistance of designer Wilf Simms, he redesigned and replanted the garden, and saved it from the hands of property developers who wanted to build an underground car park underneath. In the garden's first summer of 1991, Lexham Gardens was awarded first prize in the All London Garden Squares Competition, competing against entries from 100 other squares.[3]
On 15 June 1952, Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent Christine Granville was stabbed to death in the Shellbourne Hotel, 1 Lexham Gardens, by an "obsessed" Dennis George Muldowney, who was hanged on 30 September.[8]
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^"CONSTANTINE, Sir Learie (1901-1971) | English Heritage". english-heritage.org.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
^London History Tours, Adrian Sill, Jeremy Tipton. "Sir Learie lived here". shadyoldlady.com. Retrieved 10 September 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"Obituaries - Sir Juland Danvers". The Times. No. 36903. London. 20 October 1902. p. 4.
^"Elliott, Denholm Mitchell (1922–1992), actor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51023. ISBN978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 31 May 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Long, David (2012). Murders of London : in the steps of the capitals killers. London: Random House. pp. 118–121. ISBN9781847946720.
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