The house was built between 1760 and 1764 and in 1815 became Byron’s London home where he wrote his tragic verse Parsinia and his narrative poem, The Seige of Corinth. Later occupants included Baron Emile Beaumont d’Erlanger, whose family owned the French merchant bank Emile Erlanger and Company, and his society hostess wife Baroness Catherine d’Erlanger, whose salon guests included Winston and Clementine Churchill