Tavistock Square
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Tavistock Square is a public square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden near Euston Station.
Tavistock Square, looking north, BMA House on the right
Scene of the 7 July 2005 suicide bombing
Gandhi statue
A view looking towards Tavistock Square
James Burton (property developer)
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Lieutenant-Colonel James Burton was the most successful property developer of Regency and of Georgian London, in which he built over 3000 properties in 250 acres. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that Burton was "the most successful developer in late Georgian London, responsible for some of its most characteristic architecture".
Pyramidal Tomb of James Burton (1761–1837) and Burton family at St Leonards-on-Sea, England
James Burton (1761 - 1837), the most successful property developer of Regency and of Georgian London.
The Burtons' mansion, The Holme of Regent's Park, which was designed by Burton's son Decimus Burton, has been described as 'one of the most desirable private homes in London' by the architectural scholar Guy Williams.
Burton was a cousin of the poet Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet.