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| 1802 |
| | | King George III has the White House at Kew demolished and instructs James Wyatt to build a castellated palace by the river, which was never completed. | |
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| 1810 |
| | | Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) is buried in St Anne's churchyard in Kew. | |
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| 1818 |
| | | Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, dies and the 'Dutch house' in Kew Gardens is closed. | |
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| 1819 |
| | | Kew bridge is sold to George Robinson for £22,000 | |
|  | The second Kew Bridge, in 1892, by C.W. Fothergill
Kew Bridge Steam Museum
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| 1823 |
| | | By an Act of Parliament George IV encloses the western end of Kew
Green up to the present Ferry Lane and closes the road across the Green. | |
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| 1824 |
| | | The King’s Free School is established in a small Gothic building near the pond, with George IV as a major subscriber | |
|  | Print of the King's School in Kew when newly built
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| 1824 |
| | | George IV lays the foundation stone for a school on the north east side of Kew Green and gives £300 on condition that the school be called the King’s Free School. Later Queen Victoria permits the school to be called The Queen’s School. | |
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| 1837 |
| | | The King's Free School in Kew, changing its name by now according to the sex of the sovereign, becomes the Queen's Free School | |
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| 1837 |
| | | The Taylor estate of East Sheen and West Hall passes to the Leyborne-Pophams of Littlecote in Wiltshire | |
|  | West Hall in Kew, by William Harriott, 1819
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| 1837 |
| | | William IV returns a small section of the Green to the inhabitants of Kew. | |
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