Cleveland Row

Cleveland-Row, St. James's, is the west continuation of Pall-Mall, facing the Palace, and extending from St. James's-street to the Stable-yard in the Palace.

Cleveland-Row, St. James's,—the W. continuation of Pall-mall, fronting the Palace, extending from St. James's st. to the Stable-yard.

Cleveland Row, St. James's, the passage in front of St. James's Palace, forming the continuation westward of Pall Mall. Mason, the poet, in 1767 brought his bride to Cleveland Row. He writes to Gray (February 2), "We have changed our lodgings, and are to be found at Mr. Mennis's, a tailor, at the Golden Ball in Cleveland Row, the last door but one nearest the Green Park Wall." When Henry Flood, the Irish orator, held a seat in the British House of Commons (1784) he resided in Cleveland Row. Admiral Sir Sidney Smith was living here in 1809. In 1827 Theodore Hook, encouraged by the success of the John Bull, hired a large house in Cleveland Row from Lord Lowther, at £200 a year, and borrowed two or three thousand pounds to lay out in furniture. This was just outside what he describes as "The real London—the space between Pall Mall on the south and Piccadilly on the north, St. James's Street on the west and the Opera House on the east."