City of Westminster
Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871) mathematician & pioneer of the modern computer, lived in a house on this site, 1829 - 1871.
St. Marylebone Society
This is where Babbage died.
W1, Dorset Street, 1
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles Babbage - W1
Mathematician and pioneer of the modern computer. Probably born in Crosby Row...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Charles Babbage - W1
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
The plaque is just inside the entrance to Olive Morris House.
This plaque was planned during turbulent times in the royal-watching community. Here's the time-line: 20 January 1936, George V died and ...
English Heritage Sir Archibald McIndoe, 1900 - 1960, reconstructive surgeon, lived here in flat 14.
The building is dated 1893 and presumably was named after Blackfriars Priory even though that was on the other side of the river.
The plaque is dull compared with this relief showing the expectant natives reaching out to the Gospel-bringer in his ship with puffed up ...
On this site there used to be a sister to Hotel Russell, also designed by Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolished in the 196...
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt) 40th Batn. - Service (Jewish)
Born Almora, India. Died London, Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902 "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundatio...
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