Charles Dickens, 1812 - 1870, novelist, lived here.
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WC1, Doughty Street, 48
This building is often said to be Dickens' only surviving London home. There is at least one other: 10 Norfolk Street, now 22 Cleveland Street. The Doughty Street house was purchased by the Dickens Fellowship in 1925 and houses The Charles Dickens Museum.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles Dickens Museum - blue plaque
Born, son of Elizabeth and John Dickens, at No.1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Charles Dickens Museum - blue plaque
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
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Marianne Sophia Hansler, née Collis, the daughter of the late Joseph Collis senior Registrar of the High Court of Chancery. Married Captain Robert Hansler and became his widow in 1877.
Sculptor. Born Forest Hill into a family of Swiss origin. Died London. Other work in London: Passmore Edwards Library E3, Methodist Central Hall (with Henry Poole) and the 1893 Perseus Rescuing ...
John Birnie Philip was born on 23 November 1824 in London, the third son of the five children of William Philip (1781-1865) and Elizabeth Philip née Rhind (b.1786). His father was a tailor and he ...
H.G. Wells writer lived in this house in 1894 whilst writing The Time Machine. The H.G. Wells Society
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