Erection date: 1885
Madame D'Arblay (Fanny Burney), authoress, lived here. Born 1752. Died 1840.
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Erected by the Society of Arts
Erected in 1885 this is the oldest surviving "blue" plaque to a woman.
W1, Bolton Street, 11
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Fanny Burney
Born King's Lynn, Norfolk, father was Dr Charles Burney. Diarist, novelist:...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Fanny Burney
Founded by William Shipley as the "Society of Arts" in Rawthmell's Coffee Hou...
L.C.C. John Hughlings Jackson, (1835 - 1911), physician, lived here.
The H.G. Wells Society H.G. Wells, author, 1866 - 1946, lived and worked here, 1930 - 1936.
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
From Survey of London: This building, designed by A. W. Blomfield, was erected in 1864-5 as a vicarage. Enlarged in 1869, it was converte...
Born Charles Spencer Chaplin in East Street, Walworth (possibly, see Londonist). Comic actor, composer, director and producer. Born into a music hall family. He joined a troupe of child dancers, '...
Born Kent. 1913 promoted field marshal. 1922 created earl of Ypres for his Irish services. 1923 appointed captain of Deal Castle. He made his home there and died there.
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