Kensington

Kensington, a West London parish, in which stand the Palace (Queen Victoria's birthplace), the Albert Memorial and Hall, South Kensington Museum, the Royal College of Music, the Imperial Institute, and many other institutions: contains also Holland House, and has long been the place of residence of notably artistic and literary men.

Population (circa 1900) given as 166,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)