Erection date: 19/3/2015
Amelia Edwards, 1831 - 1892, Egyptologist and writer, lived here.
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WC1, Wharton Street, 19
At the unveiling Professor Sir Christopher Frayling said "This blue plaque marks the family home where she came to maturity as a writer, and where she displayed the appetite for knowledge and learning on which her pioneering work on Egyptology was based."
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Amelia Edwards
Egyptologist, novelist, journalist, traveller. Born Colebrook Row, Islington....
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Amelia Edwards
Ian Visits gave us the precise date that this station was opened: 10 March 1932.
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849, writer and poet, was a pupil at the Manor House School (1817 - 1820), which stood on this site. London Boro...
Bloomsbury House was built in 1887 for the College of Preceptors. Designed by by F. Pinches it is Listed Grade 1. The College, now call...
These were presumably navigational signs for people visiting St David’s wing, indicating where to find the various wards, etc. "Ifor" is ...
English Heritage Thomas Gage, 1721 - 1787, Commander of British Forces in North American, lived here.
