Erection date: 1998
City of Westminster
John William Polidori, 1795 - 1821, poet & novelist, author of 'The Vampyre'. Born & died here.
1998
W1, Great Pulteney Street, 38
This house was once the family home of the Polidoris.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Dr John William Polidori
This entry has kindly been written for us by Franklin Bishop, expert on Polid...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Dr John William Polidori
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
'Deo Confidimus' means 'In god we trust'.
Above this large, plain, plaque there is a small ornate stone with "G.S." on a shield surrounded with foliage, quite badly damaged. Whic...
By the time we got there (in 2014 - it was not top of our priority list) the plaque/sticker had gone (if it had ever existed outside of P...
Lane and Orpen were distant cousins and rented this house together in 1907. The Lane plaque is above, Orpen below, with a little window b...
The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...