Plaque

Trollope family

Erection date: /6/2000

Inscription

Frances Trollope (1780 - 1863) author, lived at 16 Keppel Street near this site. Her sons, the authors Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810 - 1892) and Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) were born there.

Unveiled by William Rees-Mogg in June 2000. Frances's date of birth, 1779 (according to the Dictionary of National Biography), appears incorrectly on the plaque as 1780.

Site: Trollopes & Westermarck (2 memorials)

WC1, Senate House

London University pulled down the Trollopes' house in the 1930s and replaced it with this car park.

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Trollope family

Subjects commemorated i

Anthony Trollope

Author of over 50 delightful novels. Born at 16 Keppel Street. Worked for the...

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Frances Trollope

Author. Mother of Thomas Adolphus and Anthony.

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Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Author.  Born 16 Keppel Street, younger brother to Anthony.

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Trollope family

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William Rees-Mogg

Editor of The Times 1967-81. Also High Sheriff of Somerset in the late 1970s....

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Trollope family

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Westermarck

Westermarck

Edward Westermarck, 1862 - 1939, Finnish pioneer of social anthropology lived...

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