City of Westminster
Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797), 'The African', lived and published here in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the barbarity of slavery, which paved the way for its abolition.
W1, Riding House Street, 67-73
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Equiano - Riding House Street
Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Equiano - Riding House Street
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Ralph Stephen draws our attention to the birth date on this plaque, 1632, when Pepys was actually born 23 February 1633. He surmises th...
Benjamin Britten, composer, 1913 - 1976, and Peter Pears, singer, 1910 - 1986, lived and worked here, 1943 - 1946. City of Westminster In...
Opened in 1754 as the burial ground for St Andrew's Holborn but full and closed by 1850. The site now occupied by the splendidly Art Deco...
The plaque seems to be attempting to justify the presence here of these bits of the Houses of Parliament with a connection between the tw...
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives his birth year as 1723.
