Aberdeen Place is a street inSt John's Wood, London. It was laid out after 1823 on the site of a farm once owned by the wealthyyeomanJohn Lyon, who foundedHarrow School in 1571. The farm was located in the former Lisson Manor and was held by the governors of the school, with the proceeds going towards the maintenance ofHarrow Road betweenHarrow and London. The farm was built over from 1823 onwards with the newly constructed streets being named after governors of Harrow School. In the case of Aberdeen Place, it was named afterGeorge Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, who had gone to school at Harrow and was Prime Minister from 1852 to 1855.[1]
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