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Some of the last fields to be developed around Richmond belonged to the Rugge-Price estate. Sir Charles Price who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1802 and also MP lived at Spring Grove House on the estate which he bought in 1797 and remained there until his death in July 19, 1818. It remained the family home until the 6th baronet Sir Charles Rugge-Price sold some of the land in 1904 to develop both the west side of this road and also Spring Grove Road. James Green et al in The Streets of Richmond and Kew write that in Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage (1936) Sir Charles “claimed descent from Rhys Wynn ap Cadwaller who bought various estates in Denbigh in 1583 and the Price family became very rich and influential in the county”. When Sir Charles died in 1927 the remaining land was sold. The house was knocked down and in 1934 the east side of Denbigh Gardens could be built up in what were the gardens of the house itself.
