BRIEF HISTORY DURING THE SNOW ERA (1813-58)

A speculative builder, Louis Changeur, built Edwardes Square in 1811-19 on 11 acres leased from the 2nd Lord Kensington.  The square was named after Lord's Kensington's father, William Edwardes.   In 1816, Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), the novelist and dramatist, lived at No. 4 Earls Terrace (the short unlabeled street on the map above "Edwards," south of Kensington Road).  Her romances, A simple Story (1791) and the Nature and Art (1796), written well before the birth of John Snow, were early examples of passion novels.  

A central garden was laid out in 1820 and the gardener's lodge was built in Greek revival style.

Source: Weinreb B, Hibbert C (eds). The London Encyclopaedia, 1993.

             Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2000.