host to the composer Felix Mendelssohn in 1829 and 1832. Admiral Sir Robert Lambert Baynes KCB (1796–1869), Royal Navy officer; Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station; credited with adopting a policy of non-intervention that helped defuse the San Juan Boundary Dispute of 1859 between Britain and the United States of America. Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), the author of American noir detective novels lived as a boy in the area especially at Mount Cyra, 110, Auckland Road, from 1900 to 1905. The house now has a Blue Plaque. Sir John Ninian Comper (1864–1960), one of the great Gothic Revival architects of the 20th century, lived at The Priory, 67 Beulah Hill (now demolished). His son Nicholas Comper (1897–1939) was an aviator who designed the Comper Swift monoplane in the back garden. Edward Elgar (1857–1934), composer, and his wife Caroline Alice Elgar (1848–1920) lived at Oaklands, Fountain Road in 1889, soon after they were married, so that they could be near the Crystal Palace concerts. Bernard Fagg (1915–1987), archaeologist and museum curator, was born in Upper Norwood. Sir Theodore Ford (1829–1920), chief justice of the Straits Settlements, lived in Upper Norwood from his retirement in 1896 to his death in 1920. Robert FitzRoy (1805–1865), captain of HMS Beagle, second governor of New Zealand, and inventor of the weather forecast, lived in Church Road and is buried in front of All Saints' Church. Walter Franklin (1891–1968), first-class cricketer, who played for the MCC. Simon Friend, multi-instrumentalist in the alternative rock band The Levellers founded in 1988. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807–1894), sculptor of the famous dinosaurs in the park, lived at Fossil Villa, 22 Belvedere Road. Anthony Ludovici (1882–1971), philosopher, and his wife the writer Elsie Finnimore Buckley (1882–1959) lived at 35 Central Hill, soon after they were married in 1920. G. E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher, who was the father (with Bertrand Russell) of analytic philosophy. Mary Nesbitt (1742/3–1825), an 18th-century courtesan who became involved in political intrigue, lived at Norwood House off Central Hill. The house is now part of The Cedars School and The Laurels School. Charles Patteson (1891–1957), clergyman, first-class cricketer and international hockey player. Joseph Paxton (1803–1865), famed designer of the Crystal Palace, lived in a house called Rockhills at the top of Westwood Hill. Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), the impressionist painter, moved with his family to the area upon the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. Troy Southgate (b.1965), writer, musician and publisher, lived in