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...
Greater London Council Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher, 1841 - 1920, lived here as First Sea Lord, 1904 - 1910.
So who did design this building, F. L. Pither or Elgood? We can find no reference to any other buildings by Pither but there are a few do...
This house seems to be immediately behind Archer's business address on Battersea Park Road. We wonder if he created a gate in the divid...
This is one of a set of 7 pavement plaques - see Kilburn Bridge for the list.
The original Adelphi was a large development, even in modern terms. Most of the streets were named after the Adam brothers as was the who...
Author and publisher. Born Leonard Sidney Woolf in Kensington. After working in the Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Civil Service, he returned to Britain where he met and married Virginia Stephen. Together ...
We found these two plaques in the basement, near the lift and stairwell. There may be others elsewhere in the store - if you find any pl...
These plaques were originally located on the buildings of the Teddington Studios in Broom Road. The studios were closed and demolished in...
Our thanks, as ever, to our Welsh consultant, David Hopkins, for providing the transcription (Welsh in Gothic script defeated us) and the...
Married Humphrey, uncle to the child King Henry VI. Eleanor was implicated in a plot of treasonable necromancy against the king. Her supposed co-conspirators were executed and she was sentenced ...
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