Dr. Williams's Library, founded 1729, moved to this site 1890.
Beside entrance. The library forms part of the charitable trust established under the will of Dr Daniel Williams. The Library, originally in Red Cross Street, Cripplegate moved to Bloomsbury in 1865. The strengths of the Library lie in books and manuscripts relating to theology and English nonconformist history.
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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Dr Williams's Library
Eminent Protestant dissenting minister, of the Presbyterian denomination; bor...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Dr Williams's Library
Memorial address is correct, even though the plaque and the entrance to the house are in Blacklands Terrace.
These premises are now Peabody Trust housing. Londonist have a good page on this area, once know as the Devil's Acre, "widely regarded a...
Plaque 1 incorrectly states that there were 64 people killed in this incident. The Wandsworth Guardian carries the story of how it was di...
The plaque is on the back of the building, visible from a footpath.
