John Christopher Smith, Handel's friend and secretary, 1712 - 1763, lived and died here.
The dates on the plaque confuse Smith (1712 - 1795) with his father, Johann Christoph Schmidt (1683–1762/3), also confusingly later known as John Christopher Smith.
W1, Carlisle Street, 6
SPAB provides an interesting history of this house and the area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Christopher Smith
Composer. Born Ansbach, Germany. Following his father he arrived in London in...
Very similar iron plaques can be found on mooring bollards around the docks. The design looks early 19th century to us so perhaps this p...
British Pathe have film of this ceremony: The Queen Mum looks pretty experienced with a cement trowel and stone hammer, while the then Pr...
English Heritage Marie Stopes, 1880 - 1958, promoter of sex education and birth control, lived here, 1880 - 1892.
The Whitsun Weddings (recalling a train journey on Whitsun Saturday afternoon in 1955) was voted one of the "Nation's Top 100 Poems" in 1...
Chemist. Born Penzance. Wrote "Researches, Chemical and Philosophical". Discovered potassium, sodium, barium, strontium, etc. Invented the safety lamp for coal miners.
Government-created owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in Great Britain. It superseded Railtrack P.L.C.
Wilson Victor Edwards was born on 19 July 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA the fifth of the six children of James Barrett Edwards (1877-1952) and Emory Bertie Edwards née Wilson (1880-1929). Hi...
Thornton's Corner Beckenham Journal, 1881 - 1965 First British Airmail Post Office, 9th August 1902. Bromley & Beckenham Philatelic ...
Close friend of King James I. Dutch Ambassador to the court, 1609-24. 1602–3 Elizabeth granted him a house in South Lambeth where he lived until his death. From this plan we think this house was ab...
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