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...
Edward Thomas, 1878 - 1917, essayist and poet, lived here. London County Council
Benny Hill, 1922-1992, comedian, lived here 1960-1986, The Dead Comics Society.
We understand that at least 13 of these names are also on the memorial cross at the United Reform Church.
The plaque gives his birth year as 1863, when, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, it was 1869.
The idea of this plaque may have originated in the 2015 journal article "Dorothy Richardson, Quakerism and 'Undoing': Reflections on the ...
Deck Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar Street, Sou...
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