loughborough

Updated: June 6, 2025

The official residence of the Lord Chancellor was on the east side. Lord Loughborough lived there, and subsequently Lord Eldon, who had to escape with his wife into the British Museum gardens when the mob made an attack on his house during the Corn Law riots. The streets running north and south are all of the same prosperous, substantial character.

Sir Walter Besant - Holborn and Bloomsbury: The Fascination of London