The History of 30 Sussex Square

​No 30 was registered as a Ladies School from 1862-1886. In the Census of 1861 Three Governesses, three pupils and four servants including a cook, two housemaids and a charwoman are recorded as living in the house.

The surgeon Julius Lawrence Hamilton lived at 30 Sussex Square from 1891 until his death in June 1913.

Dr Hamilton’s practice had been in 28 Finsbury Square, north London but in 1887 he divorced his wife, citing a co-respondent, and retired to Brighton soon afterwards.

After the Great War the house was divided into four separate homes, one of which was the Brighton home of the French politician Henri Rillart, Comte de Verneuil, and his wife the Comtesse.

Street directories list the Comte and Comtesse as resident at number 30 until 1932, presumably as a holiday home. The Comte had been involved in the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 and died in Paris in 1948.