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
British History Online gives the origins of the Drapers Almshouses, from 1642 when they were built on what is now Borough Road at the jun...
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
St Andrew's Place Medical Precinct was opened by Her Majesty The Queen, Visitor, The Royal College of Physicians, 11 June 1986
Presumably Tottenham has, or had, some special connection with Palme or Sweden but we can't find it. When we published this Stephen Bras...
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for providing the photographs of the plaques.
Frederic Nicholas Clare Melhado was born about 1862 in Maida Hill, London, the younger son of Michael Clare Melhado (1814-1879) and Julia Presbury Melhado née Steele (1825-1910). On 12 March 1862 h...
This mural depicts the 4 mop tops around two walls of the front area. We spent some entertaining time on Trip Adviser for this tourist ho...
Robert Owen, 1771 - 1858, father of the Co-operative movement, lived here, 1832 - 1840. Marchmont Association One Housing
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