William Hogarth, painter & engraver, 1697 - 1764, lived and worked here for 15 years.
{Flanking the Middlesex coat of arms:}
County of Middlesex
W4, Hogarth Lane, Hogarth House
A London Inheritance has a good post on this house and its history.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Hogarth - W4
Satirical artist and illustrator. Trained as an engraver, he depicted the uns...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Hogarth - W4
Former county. It became a shire in the 10th century, but most of the area wa...
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
The full text from I Corinthians 13:4-8 reads: "Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sin but delights in the truth; it is always read...
We'd given up the original plaque as lost, and had never even seen the second one, until 2022 when Londonist reported on this arrangement...
London County Council F. E. Smith, Earl of Birkenhead, 1872 - 1930, lawyer and statesman, lived here.
Invented the milk churn and campaigned for cleaner milk. Son of a dairyman. In 1864 in Museum Street/Coptic Street established the Express Country Milk Supply Company which sold milk. He also estab...
Footballer. Born George Reginald Cohen in Kensington. He spent his entire career playing for Fulham and was in the winning England team in the 1966 World Cup.
The One Tun pub in Perkins Rents was in the infamous area known as the Devil's Acre. The whole area was disrupted and much of it demolished to construct Victoria Street, which opened for use in 185...
100,000 costermongers' donkeys worked in and around the market. The picture source says: "In the 1860s there were as many as 2,000 donkey barrows on a Saturday morning in Covent Garden Market."
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