Sep 13, 2008

John Robert Godley's London Home


"Old Jack" Godley (1814-1861), a founder and second Lyttelton based Agent of the Canterbury Association, lived and died in this 1810 terraced house at 48 Gloucester Place, in London's Marylebone district (better known as Fitzrovia). Charlotte Godley survived her husband by 45 years and died in the Grade II listed townhouse on the 3rd of January 1907. Subsequently the home of the Rabbi Sir Philip Magnus, Baronet, it is now the St George Hotel.

Photographed by Ramanja

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