The History of 4 Arundel Terrace

A cross section of occupants from the second half of the 19^th Century reveals a shift from the nobility and gentry to trade and the professions. In the 1851 census George Ashlin, a corn factor (merchant or trader) from Southwark, was living in the house with his wife, daughter and four servants.

Then the brewer William Morley Pegg (originally from Derbyshire) retired and moved to Brighton in the 1890s with his wife Florence and son Reginald Morley Pegg. The latter eventually became an eminent musicologist. Following a pattern familiar today, a solicitor from Rochdale, George Hardman Hoyle, moved to Brighton in 1909 after spending much of his working life in London.

Hugh Seely, 1^st Baron Sherwood of Calverton in the County of Nottingham, appears in street directories in the 1950s until the mid-sixties. Hugh Seely was a Liberal MP and RAF squadron commander between the wars and was elevated to the peerage in 1941. He served as Joint Under-Secretary of State for Air from 1941 to 1945 and came from a long line of politicians, industrialists and landowners. He died in 1970.