Lambeth Road - Famous Residents

Famous Residents

  • Archbishops of Canterbury, latterly at Lambeth Palace.
  • Elias Ashmole, founder of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
  • Philip Astley (1742–1814), built and lived at Hercules Hall, after which Hercules Road is named. He is acknowledged as the 'father of the modern circus'.
  • William Blake (1757–1827), the poet and visionary artist, lived in Hercules Road, north off Lambeth Road. The location is marked with a plaque at 23 Hercules Road.
  • William Bligh (1754–1817), captain of The Bounty and later an admiral, lived at 100 Lambeth Road.
  • Emma Cons, socialist, educationalist and founder of the Old Vic Theatre, and her niece, Lilian Baylis, who re-established the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells, lived at 5–7 Morton Place, off Lambeth Road.
  • Sir Philip Ben Greet, the actor-manager, lived at 160 Lambeth Road (1920–36).
  • Kevin Spacey (born 1959), artistic director at the Old Vic Theatre nearby, lives in the vicinity.
  • John Tradescant the elder and his son of the same name, plant collectors.

See also notable patients of Bethlem hospital, including the artist Richard Dadd.

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