Westminster City Council
Pioneer aviator, sailor and author, Sir Francis Chichester KBE, 1901 - 1972, single-handed circumnavigator of the World, 1966 - 67, lived here 1944 - 1972.
The Royal Institute of Navigation
SW1, St James's Place, 9
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Francis Chichester
Pioneer aviator, sailor and author. Single-handedly circumnavigated the Worl...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Francis Chichester
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Capt Richard Stannard, V.C. (1902 - 1977) R.N.V.R., hero of the evacuation of Namsos,1940, lived here. Loughton Town Council 1999
In a house on this site Thomas Hood was born 23rd May 1799. The Corporation of the City of London
In our photo the plaque can be seen to the left of the four lamps.
A London Inheritance has a good post on this house and its history.
The Latin quote is from the Roman poet Horace's Odes and translates roughly as "It is sweet and right to die for your country."
