Eaton Place is a street in London's Belgravia district.
It runs off the top left-hand corner of Eaton Square and then parallel to the same until a junction with Upper Belgrave Street.
Notable events, establishments and inhabitants
The 19th-century sugar-manufacture expert Shute Barrington Moody (who was the brother of the founder of British Columbia, Major-General Richard Clement Moody) resided at Burton Street (which is now South Eaton Place). John Towneley, MP for Beverley and later a family trustee at the British Museum, lived at No. 76 in 1860. The Embassy of Hungary, London, is at No. 35. After Great Britain's recognition of the communist regime in Poland as the legitimate Polish government, the antecedent Polish government-in-exile relocated from the Polish embassy to No. 43, which had been the president's personal residence, where it stayed until 1990. The 1971 TV-series Upstairs, Downstairs is supposed to be set at a fictional No. 165 Eaton Place. It used number 65 and painted a "1" in front of the house's number for filming. On 22 June 1922, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, was assassinated outside his home at No. 36 by Irish Republican Army members Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan. The actress Joan Collins resides in Eaton Place.
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