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Wimpole Street is a famous street in London. Located in the City of Westminster, it is associated with private medical practice and medical associations. No. 1 Wimpole Street is the home of the Royal Society of Medicine and 64 Wimpole Street to the British Dental Association. Wimpole Street was home to a few celebrities, such as Paul McCartney who lived at 57 Wimpole Street in 1964-1966 during his relationship with Jane Asher.[1]. The most famous resident was the poet Elizabeth Barrett, who lived at 50 Wimpole Street with her family from 1838 until 1846 when she eloped with Robert Browning. The street was also given as the address of Henry Higgins by Bernard Shaw in his play Pygmalion and in the musical adaptation My Fair Lady, 22a is given as the address. On the corner of Wimpole and Wigmore Street took place a famous legal case about causing a "nuisance" between neighbours, in Sturges v. Bridgman (1879). [edit] References
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