Erection date: /1/2018
William Somerset Maugham 1874 - 1965
Novelist and playwright lived here 1919 - 1923
"To acquire a habit for reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."
City of Westminster
W1, Wyndham Place, 2
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
W. S. Maugham - Wyndham Place
Playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born of British parents in Paris...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
W. S. Maugham - Wyndham Place
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Seems likely that the F. J. Smith is the same architect as the one who built Caxton Hall with William Lee. Andrew Behan has researched s...
Douglas Macmillan, 1884 - 1969, founder of Macmillan Cancer Relief, lived here. English Heritage
There were 16 of these open-book style ground plaques, marking the corners of blocks A - D, the 4 main large blocks of buildings in WW2 C...
The quotation is from the Bible, Ephesians.
