William Penn, quaker, born on Tower Hill, baptised in + All Hallows Church, 23rd Oct: 1644, founder of Pennsylvania.
EC3, Byward Street, All Hallows by the Tower
For information about the church, including a good range of photographs see A London Inheritance.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Penn
Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania. Born in the Liberty of the Tower. ...
So, all the sevens then. Eric Gill designed and carved this memorial.
Born 1881, editor of Punch, 1932 - 1949, E. V. Knox (Evoe), essayist and poet, lived here from 1945 until his death in 1971.
{Circular plaque, around a drawing of the viaduct and St James's Bermondsey church, above a shield and a banner:} London and Greenwich Ra...
2017: Spitalfields Life has a terrific post on this house: "Emery Walker’s House in Hammersmith Terrace has survived almost as he left it...
The plaque is in the archway, on the right.
