On this site stood the Pall Mall Restaurant where the Rugby Football Union was founded on the 26th January 1871.
Installed in or before 2012.
SW1, Cockspur Street, 1, Oceanic House
August 2022: we were informed that this plaque had gone, while the building was undergoing some sort of transformation. By September it was back. Our thanks to Lionel Wright for that information.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rugby Football Union
Created when delegates from 22 clubs met at the Pall Mall Restaurant and rule...
Cons was not herself wealthy so it seems odd to describe her as a philanthropist, and the plaque has her birth year wrong, according to t...
Greater London Council Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, 1828 - 1913, surgeon, scientist and teacher, lived here.
The quote is from the Bible, Galatians 6:2. This is the foundation stone of the Hampstead General Hospital first erected here in 1902 an...
2016: Until recently this building used to house the Angel and Crown pub. It's now a themed bar/restaurant and this "blue plaque" is all...
Note: "Quincey" seems to be the accepted spelling rather than the "Quincy" on the plaque.
