Erection date: 2004
C. L. R. James, 1901 - 1989, West Indian writer and political activist, lived and died here.
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Both plaques are actually around the corner in Shakespeare Road.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
C. L. R. James
Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist and political activist. A pionee...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
C. L. R. James
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
C. L. R. James
Harold Abrahams, 1899 - 1978, Olympic athlete, lived here. English Heritage
On this site lived William Wilberforce, statesman and emancipator, 1759 - 1833.
The last line on the board suggests that this used to be on display at the front of the building. Perhaps the large empty space was used ...
From a paper presented at the 2012 conference of the North American Barbara Pym Society we deduce that the plaque was erected in or befor...
Researching Benjamin Cotton we find that he was a wealthy administrator at Trinity House, which to us seems insufficient to justify his n...
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