This is a list of notable residents and former residents of the London borough of Chelsea. Henry George Kendall Ship Captain of the RMS Empress of Ireland. * Freddie Mercury * David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon * Anne of Cleves died Chelsea Manor 1557 * Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban * Hilaire Belloc (Cheyne Walk) * John Betjeman (Radnor Walk) * Honor Blackman (Markham Square) * Enid Blyton (Beaufort Street) * Dirk Bogarde (Lower Sloane Street) * Marc Isambard Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel (civil engineers); 98 Cheyne Walk * Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan * Phyllis Calvert (actress) was born in Chelsea * Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (Wife of Prince William) (Old Church Street) * Thomas Carlyle the "Sage of Chelsea" (24 Cheyne Row – now National Trust