Brown's Hotel

Brown's Hotel is a hotel in London, established in 1837 and owned by Rocco Forte Hotels since 3 July 2003.HistoryBrown's Hotel was founded in 1837, by James and Sarah Brown.Historian John Lothrop Motley stayed at the hotel in 1874, as shown in a letter he wrote on June 17th of that year, to Dutch historian Groen van Prinsterer. Celebrated Victorian writers Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, JM Barrie and Bram Stoker were also all regular visitors. The hotel has also hosted Alexander Graham Bell (who made the first phone call in Europe from the hotel), Theodore Roosevelt, Napoleon III, Empress Eugenie, Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians, Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, George II, King of the Hellenes, Cecil Rhodes, Rudyard Kipling and Agatha Christie. While Brown's has been described as the inspiration hotel for Christie's At Bertram's Hotel, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says Christie's model was a different Mayfair hotel, Fleming's.