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
Unsurprisingly the International Ripperologists Society doesn't seem to exist other than as part of this misconceived museum.
Note that, despite its blueness, this is not an English Heritage plaque.
This plaque commemorates the tercentenary of Shipley's birth and the site of RSA's first meeting place. Interesting that this is a Westmi...
We originally photographed this plaque in 2010. Returning in 2016, we found that the empty small white plinth to the right of the tree wa...
Greater London Council George Dance the younger, 1741 - 1825, architect lived and died here.
Master of the Innholders' Company in 1950.
Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...
From the dates, this plaque was erected first in 1689 on the original 1666 almshouses and then re-erected on their 1819 replacement.
Born St Mary's Hospital Paddington, to parents who were both from Jamaica, John Bubeula Dodd is commonly known as Jak Beula. He is a British entrepreneur and cultural activist of Caribbean heritage...
His ringlets are formed by coins. Loose copies of an old penny are placed at the bottom corners: head (a young Victoria) at the left, tai...
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