Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born here, 29th May 1874.
Are we proud of spotting this small, dark plaque? You bet we are!
W8, Sheffield Terrace, 32 - 34
Chesterton at 32. Carlile at 34, behind the scaffolding.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
G. K. Chesterton - birth
Writer. Born 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, as Gilbert Keith Chesterton....
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G. K. Chesterton - birth
Prebendary Wilson Carlile, 1847 - 1942, founder of the Church Army, lived her...
Ignatius Sancho, 1729 - 1780, writer, symbol of the humanity of Africans, lived and had a grocery shop near this site. Foreign and Commo...
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1847 - 1929, pioneer of women's suffrage, lived and died here. London County Council
Rudolf Nureyev, 1938 - 1993, ballet dancer, lived here. English Heritage
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In our photo you can see, at first floor level, a row of wall tie plates. This blue plaque has every appearance of being one of those, c...
Citizen and cordwainer (cobbler), first among the leaders of the settlement at Jamestown, Virginia from which began the overseas expansion of the English speaking peoples. Born Lancashire. 16 year...
There is a cross on the reverse of the monument.
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