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
Holland House was built in 1605 for Sir Walter Cope, a courtier of King James I, and was known as Cope Castle. In 1768 it was acquired b...
This Anchor Brewhouse is nothing to do with the Anchor Brewery at Park Street.
In 1824, aged 12, Dickens lodged in Lant Street in a house belonging to the Vestry Clerk of St George's Church - we take this to mean St ...
This plaque was lost sometime July 2021 - August 2022.
Via Facebook David Johnson pointed us to 47 Shoe Lane which gives lots of background information and photos about these plaques, McGill a...
