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| | The Importance of Being Earnest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Belgravia, Fry's London explains, is "named from Belgrave in Leicestershire, a village belonging to the Duke of Westminster, who owns all the land in this quarter" (London: Illustrated by Twenty Bird's-Eye Views of the Principal Streets [1895] 119). |
 | | Wheatley's London Past and Present (1891) locates it as "the fashionable region of somewhat indefinite limits, which has Belgrave Square for its centre, and may be understood broadly to extend westward from Buckingham Palace Gardens to Lowndes Square, and southwards from Knightsbridge to Chester Square (1: 153). |
 | | In addition to housing the Austrian ambassador the Square boasted no fewer than eight earls, along with various dowagers, lords, dukes, duchesses, and marquises, among its inhabitants. |
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