Beyond Mount St. Park Lane skirts the high fence concealing the garden of Grosvenor House, the entrance to which is in Upper Grosvenor St. This mansion, long the residence of the Duke of Westminster, whose family name is Grosvenor, is separated from Grosvenor St. by a screen of Doric columns. From 1761 until 1805 the house was known as Gloucester House, after its occupant the Duke of Gloucester, brother of George III. The famous collection of paintings was dispersed in 1924 and the property was afterwards sold.
Benjamin Disraeli, afterwards Lord Beaconsfield, resided at No. 29 Park Lane (then No. 1 Grosvenor Gate) from his marriage in 1839 until the death of his wife (to whom the house belonged) in 1872. Farther on, separated from each other by Upper Brook St., are Dudley House, once the property of Earl Dudley, and Brook House, the sumptuous residence of Sir Ernest Cassel (died 1921). In Green St., the next side-street but one, is Hampden House (No. 61), once occupied by the descendants of John Hampden. Sydney Smith died at No. 59 in 1845. A few yards farther on Park Lane ends on the north at the Marble Arch. A tablet on No. 40, now a block of flats, recalls the residence of Warren Hastings.
