Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820, President of the Royal Society, Robert Brown, 1773-1858, and David Don 1800-1841, botanists, lived in a house on this site. The Linnean Society met here 1821-1857.
W1, Soho Square, 31-32
The lettering is above the right-most potted scrub. Incidentally, the photograph of the building catches a typical London sight - a van driver trying to escape before the uniformed warden completes his parking ticket.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Botanists
The small building was built as the coach-house to number 26. The Ronalds and Hammersmith Socialists plaques are on the small building (w...
English Heritage Vera Brittain, 1893 - 1970 Winifred Holtby, 1898 - 1935 writers and reformers, lived here.
Memorial address is correct, even though the plaque and the entrance to the house are in Blacklands Terrace.
There are two stone plaques either side of the entrance, low on the wall, and two, rather classier, plaques in the entrance lobby. Readi...
Robert Owen, 1771 - 1858, father of the Co-operative movement, lived here, 1832 - 1840. Marchmont Association One Housing
