Erection date: 1911
{On the front of the plinth:}
Spencer Compton, eighth Duke of Devonshire, KO, Born 1833, Died 1908.
The carving on the plinth is attractive with a snake knotted into a figure of eight above the lettering, art nouveau capitals at each corner and a fine crest at the back, so large that it overlaps the cornice.
SW1, Horse Guards Avenue
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
8th Duke of Devonshire
Statesman. Born Lancashire. Previously known as the Marquess of Hartington, o...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
8th Duke of Devonshire
Londonist have a eye-witness account of this event.
Our photograph shows the whole four-house terrace. From the ODNB: These houses were built 1777-8, among the first houses in London to b...
In memory of all those killed and injured at this site by a V2 rocket which destroyed the Crooked Billet on Sunday 19th November 1944. No...
We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling and this Newspaper Archive report from the Nor...
Greater London Council Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, 1833 - 1912, father of lawn tennis, lived here.
The baluster/sundial presents no interesting detail to photograph so we have instead presented a close-up of one of the crowned letters o...
Greater London Council Sir Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, discoverer of penicillin, lived here.
The lady ticket inspector in our photo very kindly let us through the barrier to take our photos.
The plaques read left to right chronological by birth date. We've taken the dates on each plaque to be date of birth and date of death bu...
We cannot explain what this plaque is doing here. The MAIDIC is mentioned in the London Gazette of 12/6/1928 in connection with the land...
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