Sheringham, the amateur detective in the works of Anthony Berkeley Cox who first appeared in The Layton Court Mystery (1925). In the comic short story "Uncle Fred Flits By" (1935) by P. G. Wodehouse, the young gentleman Pongo Twistleton resides in the Albany. In The Foundling (1948), a novel by Georgette Heyer, Captain Gideon Ware of the Life Guards rents a set of chambers at the Albany. In the film Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Louis Mazzini takes a small set at Albany as he moves up the social ladder. In the James Bond novel Moonraker by Ian Fleming (1955), Max Meyer, the bridge partner of Sir Hugo Drax, was said to live in Albany. In the Major Harry Maxim novels by Gavin Lyall, George Harbinger, Harry's boss, who first appears in The Secret Servant (1980), has an apartment at Albany where he lives with his spouse, Annette. In Julian Fellowes' novel Belgravia (2016), Mr. John Bellasis resides in an apartment at Albany. In Graham Greene’s The Human Factor (1978), Dr. Percival resides at D.6. In Chesterton's Father Brown Stories, in "The Queer Feet", the character Mr. Audrey "[looks] like a mild, self-indulgent bachelor, with rooms in the Albany -- which he was". Tenants The list below is based mainly on the much longer list in the Survey of London. Many tenants were in residence for only a short time, when they were quite young. Antony Armstrong-Jones, later 1st Earl of Snowdon, photographer Sir Squire Bancroft, actor. George Basevi, architect. Clifford Bax, poet and playwright. Sybille Bedford, writer, lived in Aldous Huxley's servant's room. Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor. Isaiah Berlin, philosopher. Philip Bobbitt, scholar. Henry Brougham, later Lord Chancellor. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writer and politician. Lord Byron, poet. George Canning, politician. George Cattermole, artist. Bruce Chatwin, writer. Alan Clark, historian and politician. Sir Kenneth Clark, art historian. Keith Coventry, artist. Fleur Cowles, writer and editor. Maurice Cowling, historian. Edward de Bono, thinker. Dame Edith Evans, actress. William Ewart Gladstone, later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Norman Foster, architect Miles Gladwyn, 2nd Baron Gladwyn. Andrew Grima, jewellery designer. Bryan Guinness, poet. Edward Heath, later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Sir Frederick Henniker, traveller. Georgette Heyer, writer. Ashley Hicks, interior designer and architect. David Nightingale Hicks, interior decorator and designer. Bill Nighy, actor. Henry Holland, architect. Aldous Huxley, writer. Sir Simon Jenkins, newspaper editor and author. Edward Knoblock, playwright and author.