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Gower Street (London)
Gower Street is a street in Bloomsbury, Central London, England, running between Euston Road to the north and Montague Place to the south. It continues as North Gower Street north of Euston Road and Bloomsbury Street south of Montague Place. Euston Square tube station is located at the north end of Gower Street, at the corner of Euston Road.
Residents
Notable residents of Gower Street have included the architect George Dance the Younger, the naturalist Charles Darwin author of The Origin of Species, painter William de Morgan, and the Shaws. John Shaw Sr. and John Shaw Jr. formed a famous 19th century architectural partnership. Thomas Budd Shaw was a professor of English literature to the grand dukes of Russia. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in the Millais family house on Gower Street in the winter of 1848 - 1849. The Walloon (Belgian) poet Henri Michaux briefly resided in Gower Street in February 1931.This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Gower_Street_(London)". The list of authors you can find on this page.