Members of the great families of Sunderland, Portland, Halifax, Legge, Hyde, Devonshire, etc., besides those I have mentioned, have all resided here; so, too, did the wonderful old Lady Newburgh, who remembered I don’t know how many sovereigns, and was a friend of one of the most unfortunate, Charles I.; the first Lord Palmerston, who married an heiress under romantic circumstances; Sir Allen Apsley, who was Treasurer to the Duke of York, and who on one occasion received the future James II. as a guest beneath his roof “for one night only,” as they say in theatrical circles; Sir Cyril Wyche, who was a President of the Royal Society; Sir John Duncombe, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer; _and_ Sir Charles Grandison; besides Ambassadors from nearly all the courts of Europe. No; it is to the past that we must turn to find even this most select of Squares in its glory. When all the great houses were standing--Cleveland House (now represented by a huge and incongruous block of flats), Lord Jermyn’s fine mansion, on the site of the Portland Club, and Mr. Guinness’s residence, and Ossulston House, where the Bank and Lord Falmouth’s now stand--an additional distinction must have been given the Square, especially when we remember the great and beautiful residents who were then to be seen in its precincts. The history of this Square is a particularly fascinating one; but it can be but lightly touched on here.[2] As we have seen, a king was born in its chief house, so, at a later day, a queen was to be observed driving from another residence, that of the notable Sir Philip Francis, to take her trial at Westminster, and a curious print of the period shows Queen Caroline in her carriage surrounded by a vast crowd leaving No. 17, which house, together with its next door neighbour, was subsequently to be demolished to make room for the East India Club. Another notable residence is No. 20, the only example in the Square, but a fine one, of Robert Adam’s work. It was for many years the home of the Watkin Williams Wynn family, for one of whom it was built, in 1772, until recently, when it passed into Lord Strathmore’s possession.