The street was named for John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Lorne, a favourite of Queen Victoria

Lorne Avenue is shown unnamed on the 1879 map of Stratford. Though it had existed for some time before that, it was not officially named until later in 1879.

The street was named for John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Lorne, marquis (1845-1914), the eldest son of the eighth duke of Argyll, chief of the Clan Campbell of Scotland. He was born at Stafford House, the London, England, residence of his maternal grandfather, the duke of Sutherland.

He was a handsome child, observed by Queen Victoria to be “a dear, white, fat, fair little fellow with reddish hair, but very delicate features, like both his father and mother; he is such a merry, independent little child.” He was described by his sister as having a “fair complexion, with straight regular features, and the brightest of blue eyes, the whole crowned, as it was to the end of his days, by a wealth of yellow gold hair. A........

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