Edith Grove was named after local developer Captain Robert Gunter’s daughter, Edith.
Edith Gunter died of scarlet fever at the age of eight. Many of the Gunter family are buried in Brompton Cemetery.
eviously at Belgrave hall, Pimlico (Westm.), in New Rd by 1863, later at Union chapel in Pavilion Rd (q.v.), in Cadogan St, and in Radnor St (q.v.).
The West Brompton chapel opened in Edith Grove in 1866.
At 102 Edith Grove was The Rolling Stones’ first London home in Chelsea. Mick Jagger lived there with Keith Richards and also Brian Jones between 1962 and 1963. Bill Wyman & Charlie Watts often stayed over.
