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
Zachary Macaulay (1768 - 1838), philanthropist, and his son Thomas Babington Macaulay, afterwards Lord Macaulay (1800 - 1859), lived here...
The plaque is not very interesting but the brickwork on this building is so attractive that we were glad to find an excuse to include it....
Not only did Collins live here but he and his two sons developed the area as the Rookfield Garden Village. This plaque is very difficult...
The Freemasons commissioned this memorial to mark the 300th anniversary of The United Grand Lodge of England in 2017 and the centenary of...
We are familiar with the "pensioner crosses road" syndrome in local newspapers but this is our first sighting of it in a plaque.
