=Old Quebec Street= commemorates the capture of Quebec by General Wolfe in 1759, about which period this street was first built upon. =Seymour Place= and =Upper Seymour Street= were designated after the Seymours, from whom the Portmans are descended. =Montague Street= and =Montague Square= were so called in compliment to Mrs. Montague of Blue Stocking fame, who, on becoming a widow, took up her residence in Portman Square close by. =Orchard Street= was designated in allusion to Orchard-Portman, one of the seats of the Portmans, in Somersetshire. =Portman Square=, =Portman Street=, =Berkeley Place=, =Upper Berkeley Street=, =Lower Berkeley Street=, =Bryanstone Square=, =Bryanstone Street=, =Wyndham Place=, =Wyndham Street=, =Blandford Square=, =Blandford Street=, =Dorset Square=, and =Dorset Street=, all have reference to the titles and estate of the sole landlord of this neighbourhood, viz., Edward Berkeley Portman, Viscount Portman of Bryanstone, near Blandford, Dorsetshire, many years M.P. for Dorset, and some time M.P. for Marylebone. =Baker Street= received its name in compliment to Sir Edward Baker of Ranston, a valued neighbour of the Portmans in Dorsetshire. =Harewood Square= and =Harewood Street= mark the position of the town mansion of the Earls of Harewood. =Lisson Grove= stands on part of the land formerly known as _Lideston Green_, really a corruption of _Ossulton Green_. _Ossulton_ is the name of a Hundred mentioned in Domesday Book, and preserved in =Ossulton Square=, close at hand, and also in =Ossulton Street=, Euston Road.
=Regent’s Park= was named in honour of the Prince Regent, for whom it was originally intended to build a palace on the ground now utilized as the Botanic Gardens. =Albany Street= and =Osnaburgh Street= perpetuate the memory of Frederick, second son of George III., nominally styled Prince-Bishop of Osnaburgh in Hanover, and created Duke of York and Albany, and Earl of Ulster. =Cumberland Market=, whither the hay-market was removed from what still bears the description of the Haymarket in 1831, received its name in honour of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, one of the sons of George III., who subsequently became King of Hanover. =Munster Square= was so called in compliment to the eldest son of William IV., created Earl of Munster. =Park Street= is the direct approach from High Street, Camden Town, to the Regent’s Park. =Brecknock Road=, =Brecknock Crescent=, =Bayham Street=, =Pratt Street=, =Jeffreys Street=, =Henry Street=, =Charles Street=, =Frederick Street=, =Edward Street=, =William Street=, and =Robert Street=, repeat the titles, family and Christian names occurring in the family of the Earl of Brecknock, Marquis of Camden, the owner of the estate, who died in 1840. =Great College Street=, =College Place=, and =College Street=, are situated within a stone’s throw of the Royal Veterinary College. =Oakley Square= owes its title to Oakley House, near Bedford; and =Ampthill Square= to Ampthill Park, in Bedfordshire, the names of two seats of the Bedfords; while =Harrington Square= was denominated after the Earl of Harrington, one of whose daughters became the wife of the seventh Duke of Bedford. =Mornington Crescent= and =Mornington Place= were named in honour of the Earl of Mornington, Governor-General of India, the brother of the Duke of Wellington; and =Granby Street= after John Manners, the popular Marquis of Granby. =Eden Street= covers the site of the old “Adam and Eve” Tea Gardens. =Skinner Street=, Somers Town, was built, and is still owned by, the Skinners’ Company.