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The official residence of the foreign secretary is 1 Carlton Gardens, in London. [7] The foreign secretary also has the use of Chevening House , a country house in Kent , South East England , [ 8 ] and works from the Foreign Office in Whitehall .
Number 1 was the headquarters of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining from 1972 to 2015. [14] Joseph Hodges Choate (US Ambassador to the Court of Saint James) lived at Number 1 from 1899 to 1904. Lord Curzon (Foreign Secretary and Viceroy of India) lived there from 1905 to 1925. In 2020 it was owned by the Saudi businessman Salah ...
1 Carlton Gardens, Westminster – official ministerial residence; usually for the Foreign Secretary Speaker's House , Palace of Westminster , Westminster – official residence of the Commons' Speaker
Carlton Gardens, St. James's (No. 1 is the official residence of the Foreign Secretary and No. 2 houses the Privy Council Office) Admiralty House (three ministerial flats for use by Ministers of the Crown) Chevening House (country residence of a Minister of the Crown nominated by the Prime Minister, which is by custom given to the Foreign ...
The new British foreign secretary called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza during a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Sunday, his second international trip since Labour’s ...
She and her sisters, Irene ("Nina") and Cynthia ("Cimmie") were brought up at Hackwood Park, Hampshire, and Montacute; their London home, 1 Carlton Gardens in Carlton House Terrace, became a centre of elite social life after Curzon's second marriage to Grace Elvina Duggan in 1917. She was dubbed the "prettiest debutante of the 1922 season". [2]
Lloyd was permitted to remain at Chequers and was also allowed to keep 1, Carlton Gardens, normally the Foreign Secretary's London residence (the chancellor's usual London residence of 11 Downing Street was not available, as Downing Street was being reconstructed at the time, requiring Macmillan to live at Admiralty House for most of his ...
4 Carlton Gardens St James's SW1Y 5AA 1984 () 550 : Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859) "wrote Confessions of an English Opium Eater in this house" 36 Tavistock Street Covent Garden WC2E 7PB 1981 () 9 : De Quincey's surname is spelt incorrectly by the plaque. [9] Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804–1881)