Erection date: 1979
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, 1844 - 1889, poet, lived and studied in Manresa House.
Greater London Council
The 'SJ' after his name means he was a Jesuit, a member of the Society of Jesus.
SW15, Holybourne Avenue, Parkstead House, Roehampton University
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Gerard Manley Hopkins - SW15
Originally called Bessborough House, it was built by William Ponsonby in the ...
Poet and Jesuit priest. Born 87 The Grove, Stratford, of Welsh ancestry. 1852...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Gerard Manley Hopkins - SW15
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
Note that that, though blue, this is not an English Heritage plaque. At Beatles in London the 'plaque committee' is given as Richard Port...
2012: This building no longer exists (demolished apparently in 2007) and last time we looked had been replaced with a building site. We h...
We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling and this Newspaper Archive report from the Nor...
Plaque unveiled by fellow Welshman, BBC presenter Huw Edwards, who left the BBC in 2024.
The plaque does not appear on the latest Google Street View (March 2019) so would have been erected after then.
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