Henry Sylvester Williams, 1867 – 1911, anti-slavery and civil rights campaigner. First black councillor in Westminster.
City of Westminster
Elected 1906 for Church Street Ward
NW8, Church Street, 38
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Henry Sylvester Williams
Anti-slavery and civil rights campaigner. Born Trinidad. After the USA he a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Henry Sylvester Williams
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
This strangely monikered garden was named for Dr William Heath Strange who, in 1882, founded the Hampstead General Hospital that went on ...
Note: you can see that when the original plaque was saved from the demolition the stone in which it was laid was reclaimed as well.
The quotation is from the Song of Solomon, either chapter 2:17 or 4:6.
The stone plaque is laid into the pavement.
We are not confident in the transcription of the first name and initial.
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