14-426: Belgrave may refer to: Places [ edit ] Belgrave, Cheshire , an English village Belgrave, Leicester an English district Belgrave, Victoria , a suburb of Melbourne, Australia Belgrave railway line Belgrave railway station, Melbourne Belgrave (Puffing Billy) railway station, Melbourne , a narrow-gauge railway station Belgrave Square ,
28-498: A politician , created Baron Ashcombe in 1892. Mary, later Mrs Parker, was a botanist whose botanical specimens are held at the Royal Botanica Gardens, Kew. Thomas through his son, George , is a great-great-great-grandfather of Queen Camilla . Cubitt died in 1855 and was taken from Dorking for burial at West Norwood Cemetery on 27 December 1855. After his death, Queen Victoria said, "In his sphere of life, with
42-595: A green technology business, based in New York, U.S. Château Belgrave , a winery in the Bordeaux region of France Mount Belgrave , a mountain of Victoria Land, Antarctica Belgrave Wanderers F.C. , a football club in Guernsey Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Belgrave . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
56-714: A group of landowners including the Duke of Bedford . He was commissioned in 1824 by Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster , to create a great swathe of building in Belgravia centred on Belgrave Square and Pimlico , in what was to become his greatest achievement in London. Notable amongst this development are the north and west sides of Eaton Square , which exemplify Cubitt's style of building and design. After Cubitt's workshops in Thames Bank were destroyed by fire, he remarked "Tell
70-716: A ship's carpenter, from which he earned sufficient funds to start his own building firm in 1810 on Gray's Inn Road , London, where he was one of the first builders to have a 'modern' system of employing all the trades under his own management. Cubitt's first major building was the London Institution in Finsbury Circus , built in 1815. After this he worked primarily on speculative housing at Camden Town , Islington , and especially at Highbury Park , Stoke Newington . His development of areas of Bloomsbury , including Gordon Square and Tavistock Square , began in 1820, for
84-466: A square in London, England Belgrave, Tamworth , a district of Tamworth, England Belgrave, Ontario , a community within North Huron municipality Other uses [ edit ] Belgrave (name) , a surname and given name Belgrave (band) , a Canadian pop band Belgrave (album) , Belgrave's self-titled album Belgrave Harriers , an athletics club in London, U.K. Belgrave Trust ,
98-431: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Thomas Cubitt Thomas Cubitt (25 February 1788 – 20 December 1855) was a British master builder, notable for his employment in developing many of the historic streets and squares of London, especially in Belgravia , Pimlico and Bloomsbury . His great-great-great-granddaughter is Queen Camilla . The son of a Norfolk carpenter, he journeyed to India as
112-622: Is a historic village in Cheshire , England. The area is part of the estates owned the Dukes of Westminster who have their seat at Eaton Hall, Cheshire . The village has a few houses and the Grosvenor Garden Centre. Belgrave Lodge is located at the western end of the 1.7 mi (2.7 km) main approach to Eaton Hall, which is known as the Belgrave Avenue. The name Belgrave is based on
126-488: Is one of the capital's most expensive districts, is characterised by grand terraces of white stucco properties. Many of the street names of Belgravia have a local connection to Cheshire such as Eaton Square ( Eaton Hall ), Chester Square ( Chester ), Kinnerton Street ( Lower Kinnerton ), and Eccleston Place ( Eccleston ). 53°08′36″N 2°55′12″W / 53.14332°N 2.91996°W / 53.14332; -2.91996 This Cheshire location article
140-667: The Anglo-Saxon meaning for “beautiful grove”, which Normans replaced after the Conquest from the old name “Medregrave” which in Old French meant “filth grove”. The village is also one of the Duke of Westminster 's subsidiary titles, Viscount Belgrave (1784) which is the name of Belgravia in London , which was developed in the 1820s by Thomas Cubitt on land originally owned by Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster . Belgravia, which
154-417: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belgrave&oldid=1138512670 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Belgrave, Cheshire Belgrave
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#1732837567430168-582: The men they shall be at work within a week, and I will subscribe £600 towards buying them new tools." Cubitt was also responsible for the east front of Buckingham Palace . He also built and personally funded nearly a kilometre of the Thames Embankment . He was employed in the large development of Kemp Town in Brighton , and Osborne House on the Isle of Wight , completed in 1851. Cubitt's public works included
182-471: The provision of public parks, including being an organiser of the Battersea Park Scheme. His work outside London includes the country house Polesden Lacey , near Dorking, Surrey, which he rebuilt to largely its present form in the early 1820s. In 1827 he withdrew from the management of his Gray's Inn Road concern leaving this to his brother William Cubitt ; the firm of Cubitts still carried out
196-635: The work of Thomas Cubitt and the change robbed neither partner of the credit for their work. Cubitt had two brothers, the contractor and politician William and the civil engineer Lewis who designed many houses built by Thomas. Cubitt married Mary Anne Warner (1802–1880), on 25 March 1821 in the church of St Marylebone and they had at least twelve children – Anne (1820), Mary (1821), Emily (1823), George (1828), Sophia (1830), Fanny (1832), William (1834), Lucy (1835), Caroline (1837), Arthur (1840), and twins Thomas and Charles (1842), although five children predeceased their father. George became
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