Bury Street
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Bury Street is a one-way street in St James's, London SW1. It runs roughly north-to-south from Jermyn Street to King Street, and crosses Ryder Street.
West side of Bury Street
Street sign for Bury Street
Bury Street, 2009
One of the Economist Buildings, seen from the direction of Bury Street
Beau Brummell
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George Bryan "Beau" Brummell was an English socialite who influenced British men's fashion during the Regency era. He was a close friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV, but after the
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…belongs to The Crown Estate. Notable residents have included writer Jonathan Swift, writer and politician Richard Steele, William Brummell father of Beau Brummell, the statesman Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool, Irish poet Thomas Moore and poet George Crabbe. In Swift's A Journal to Stella, he wrote…
Brummell, engraved from a miniature portrait
Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Brummel Children, 1780s. George is the younger.
1793 painting of the 10th Light Dragoons, the regiment Brummell served in
1805 caricature of Brummell by Robert Dighton