Erection date: 28/9/
Look left to St James's Square and right to St James's Church in Jermyn Street. All this was the inspiration of one man: Henry Jermyn, Earl of St Albans, KG, 1605 - 1684, diplomat, favourite of Queen Henrietta Maria and "founder of the West End" who died in his house on this site.
Anthony Adolph
Frederick 8th Marquess of Bristol & Earl Jermyn
Fiona Mountain
City of Westminster
SW1, St James's Square, 10, Chatham House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Henry Jermyn
Born at the Louvre Palace in Paris on 16 or 26 November, daughter of the King...
Diplomat and courtier. Favourite of Queen Henrietta Maria (wife of Charles I...
In the 1660s Henry Jermyn was given the right by Charles II to develop an are...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Henry Jermyn
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Second from the left in the photo. (Don't blame us for the sideways stretch.)
Thornton's Corner Beckenham Journal, 1881 - 1965 First British Airmail Post Office, 9th August 1902. Bromley & Beckenham Philatelic ...
The plaque refers to the Verbruggens as brothers, when in fact they were father and son.
2016-17: The entire block of buildings was demolished and replaced with massive blocks of student accommodation in what locals have descr...
Doctor Barnardo, 1845 - 1905, began his work for children in a building on this site in 1866. London County Council
This is the story of a plaque that was lost and was mysteriously re-found, with pictures, before and after. Our thanks to Brian Longman f...
Initially we were puzzled why the Corporation of the City of London would erect a plaque so far to the west of its patch, but our colleag...
Co-founder and funder (with Sir Julius Wernher) of the Royal School of Mines building. Born Hamburg, learnt the diamond trade in Amsterdam and went to Kimberley where he met Wernher and Cecil Rhod...
Person, Industry, Philanthropy, Race Issues, Africa, Germany, South Africa
A very elusive organisation as all we can find about them is that they are committed to promoting African-British history and literature.
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