BERKELEY SQUARE

BERKELEY SQUARE IS THE FORMER HOME OF sEVEN BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS:

• george canning - 50 BERKELEY SQUARE FROM 1770 - 1827

• john stuart, 3rd earl of bute (1762–1763)

• william petty

• william pitt the younger (1783–1801, 1804–1806)

• archibald primrose, earl of rosebery (1894–1895)

• CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL GREY, 1830 - 1834

• winston churchill - NO. 48 BERKELEY SQUARE, AS A CHILD FROM 1874 - 1879, NOW THE ONLY SURVIVING RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY ON THE SQUARE

the square was named after the berkeley family of gloucestershire, namely john berkeley, THE 1st baron berkeley of stratton.

LAYTONS CHAMBERS CHOSE BERKELEY SQUARE AS THE LOCATION FOR ITS OFFICES AS THE AREA IS CENTRALLY LOCATED FOR ITS CLIENTS AND THE AREA REFLECTS THE QUIET REFINERY AND ELEGANCE OF LONDON, WITH THE ORIGINS OF THE SQUARE DATING BACK TO 1696.

LAYTONS CHAMBERS CHOOSES TO STRONGLY SUPPORT its LOCAL INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES AND SELECTS as many OF ITS PARTNER SUPPLIERS FROM THE LOCAL AREA as possible. OUR BUSINESS CARDS ARE FROM ROYAL WARRANT STATIONER THE WREN PRESS ON CURZON STREET, OUR NOTEPADS AND PENS ARE FROM [ ], AND OUR UMBRELLAS ARE FROM [ ].

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY BEING IN THE AREA AS MUCH AS WE DO.