page_title: Earls Terrace
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Earls Terrace / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Blue plaque, London
context_page_description: Earls Terrace is a street in Kensington, London, W8. It has houses on one side only, a terrace of 25 Georgian houses, built in 1800–1810, all of which are Grade II listed. Numbers 1 and 25, at the ends of the terrace, are converted into flats.
  The street overlooks Kensington High Street, with a grass and garden in front, and backs onto Edwardes Square.
  The entire terrace of 23 houses was redeveloped by Northacre, adding underground swimming pools and garages, and in 2001 sold for a total of £95 million.
  The communal garden is 0.5057 hectares in size, and is not open to the public.
context_section_description: The pop singer Madonna once rented there, and children's author J. K. Rowling had a home there in 2001.
  No. 1: Actors Peter Wyngarde and Alan Bates shared a flat at no. 1 for some years in the 1960s. Elizabeth Inchbald, English dramatist and novelist, also lived at No. 1.
  No. 10: George Ledwell Taylor, English architect, lived here in 1819—1820.
  No. 11: William Haseldine Pepys, founder of the London Institution, lived here in 1836—1856.
  No. 12: Walter Pater (1839—1894), essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction, lived at no. 12 from 1885 to 1893. George Du Maurier, English novelist, author of Trilby and cartoonist for Punch, also lived here in 1867—1870. George MacDonald (1824—1905), Scottish author, poet, Christian minister, lived here from September 1863 to 1867. Amongst his many guests were John Ruskin and Lewis Carroll. MacDonald’s family had already read a draft of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground and encouraged Carroll to publish it as he records in his Diary for May 9, 1863. In 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was finally published.
  No. 14: Thomas Daniell (1749—1840), English landscape painter, lived and died at no. 14.
  No. 20: George Thomas Robinson (1827—1897), architect, lived and died at no. 20.
  Francis Ludlow Holt (1780—1844), legal and dramatic author, died at Earls Terrace.
  Joseph Hirst Lupton (1836–1905), schoolmaster, cleric and writer, died at Earls Terrace.
  Googie Withers and John McCallum, and their daughter Joanna McCallum lived here in 1971—1992.
caption: Blue plaque, 14 Earls Terrace
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