No. 1, designed by the architect Ralph Knott, was built in 1911 for watercolourist Cecil Arthur Hunt (1873–1965) who had abandoned a career as a barrister to become a full-time painter. Graham Petrie (1859–1940), a British artist, poster designer and author, lived at 1 Mallord Street from about 1914 up to his tragic death. The Hungarian-born, later British, pianist Louis Kentner (1905–1987), who excelled in the works of Chopin and Liszt, lived there from 1946Andrews, Cyrus (ed.). Radio & Television Who's Who. London: George Young, 3rd edition, 1954 with his second wife, Griselda Gould, daughter of the pianist Evelyn Suart (Lady Harcourt).
