page_title: Lant Street
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Lant Street / Notable residents
context_page_description: Lant Street is a street south of Marshalsea Road in Southwark, south London, England.
context_section_description: Charles Dickens is Lant Street's most notable resident. He took lodgings in Lant Street during 1824 while still a child, in a house that belonged to the Vestry Clerk of St George's Church.
  This was during the period that his father John Dickens was imprisoned in the nearby Marshalsea debtors' prison.
  Sir Joseph Lyons was born at 50 Lant Street on 29 December 1847.  Lyons was a self-made businessman and went on to own the Lyons Cornerhouses, a chain of tea shops run by J. Lyons and Co., established in 1887.
caption: Charles Dickens, a former resident of Lant Street
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