Sloane Square
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Sloane Square is a small hard-landscaped square on the boundaries of the central London districts of Belgravia and Chelsea, located 1.8 miles southwest of Charing Cross, in the Royal Borough of Kensin
View of the square in 2019
Christmas lights in Sloane Square.
Sloane Square from above, 1909
Venus Fountain in Sloane Square by Gilbert Ledward
Hans Sloane
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Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, and collector. He had a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of th
Sloane Square
…formerly known as 'Hans Town', laid out in 1771 to a plan of by Henry Holland Snr. and Henry Holland Jnr. Both the square and Hans Town were named after Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), an Anglo-Irish doctor who, jointly with his appointed trustees, owned the land at the time. The bulk of Chelsea, especially the east end…
Portrait by Stephen Slaughter
Title page, Sloane's Voyage to Jamaica, 1725
Illustration from critique of the first volume of A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, published in Acta Eruditorum, 1710
Sloane, 1736