Victorian London - Buildings, Monuments and Museums - Landsdowne House

LANSDOWNE HOUSE, Berkeley-square, is chiefly noticeable for its gallery of sculpture, ancient and modern; and for the fact that Priestley here made his discovery of oxygen when librarian to Lord Shelburne. Among the pictures, those of Reynolds are the most important.

source: Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1879