page_title: Onslow Square
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Onslow Square / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Photographic copy of a portrait lithograph made by Herman John Schmidt (1872-1959), from Auckland, of Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy (1805-1865), Governor of New Zealand 1843-1845
context_page_description: Onslow Square is a garden square in South Kensington, London, England.
  It is set back between the Old Brompton Road to the northwest and the Fulham Road to the southeast. To the north is South Kensington Underground station. To the south is the Royal Marsden Hospital. As well as the main square, the address covers the street to the southwest that turns into Onslow Gardens, and the street to the northwest that meets Pelham Street by South Kensington tube station.
context_section_description: Sir Albert Hastings Markham, KCB (1841–1918), explorer, author, and officer in the Royal Navy, lived at 4 Onslow Square as a child.
  The novelist William Makepeace Thackeray lived at 36 Onslow Square from 1853 to 1860. Here he wrote the last part of The Newcomes, the Lectures on the Four Georges, The Virginians, and some of The Adventures of Philip and The Roundabout Papers.
  Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy (1805–1865), commander of HMS Beagle, on board which the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) also sailed, lived at 38 Onslow Square. Fitzroy lived at No 38 from 1854 to 1865, when he committed suicide (but in another residence in Norwood), through guilt for his part in casting doubt about the truth of the Bible.
  Herbert Edward Ryle DD KCVO (1856–1925), later an Old Testament scholar and the Dean of Westminster, was born in the square on 25 May 1856.
  Edmund Fisher (1872–1918), British architect, was born in Onslow Square.
  John Parker (1799–1881), a barrister and Whig  politician, died at 57 Onslow Square.
  The architect William Railton, designer of Nelson’s Column, lived at 65 Onslow Square. His daughter married Rev. Barclay Fowell Buxton (1860–1946), who was curate at Onslow Square from 1884 to 1887.  The sculptor Baron Carlo Marochetti -  who cast the lions for the column - lived at number 34, and had a workshop and foundry nearby in Sydney Mews.
  Frederic John Sidney Parry (1810–1885), an entomologist, lived in Onslow Square.
  John William Crombie (1858–1908), a Scottish woollen manufacturer, folklorist and Liberal Party politician, died in the square.
caption: Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who resided at 38 Onslow Square from 1854 until his death in 1865
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