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.)
We've not seen wet slate plaques look so bad before. Perhaps this is some slate-imitation, which can't cope with rain.
James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) physicist, lived here. LCC
The plaque was unveiled by Quant's son Orlando Plunkett Greene. Jan Elson has pointed out that there's something very funny about the "K...
Andrew Lang, 1844 - 1912, man of letters lived here in 1876 - 1912. London County Council
Marx lived at no 41 but this whole area has been redeveloped since Marx's time. And no, we have no idea what the strange pillar object is...
Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
This plaque is on the low boundary wall, facing the pavement. The railings, proudly announced on the plaque, are no more, presumably remo...
Sir Frederick Ashton, 1904 - 1988, choreographer, lived here 1959 - 1984. English Heritage
A modern plaque screwed to the west side of the plinth reads: "This plaque commemorates the completion of the refurbishment of this memor...
Electrical engineer and social reformer promoting family planning and eugenics. Born in Paris. As an engineer, he invented the phase-shifting transformer, and was co-founder of the Institute of Phy...
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