{On the main, round plaque:}
LCC
John Hunter, 1728 - 1793, surgeon, lived here.
{On the subsidiary, oblong plaque:}
Tablet fixed, 1907.
Premises rebuilt & tablet refixed, 1931.
W1, Golden Square, 31
Actually in Upper St John Street. The plaques can just be seen in the site photograph, at the far end of the white building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Hunter plaque
Pioneer anatomist and surgeon. Born in East Kilbride, Scotland. He left schoo...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
John Hunter plaque
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
London County Council Sir George Cayley, 1773 - 1857, scientist and pioneer of aviation, lived here.
Dirty and uncared for, but we prefer the Duchess plaque - just the way they have written the "Qu" of "Queen" endears it to us. The modern...
Nearby Chiswick House was in the Cavendish family, 1758–1929, which explains their association with this church. The church's website sa...
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
Surrey Iron Railway Company 1801 {At the centre is an image of a draped female holding a metal wheel on a short piece of track, the track...
Warden of Girdlers Hall in 1960. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Edward Calcott Pryce was born on 16 May 1884 in 'Trelydan', Guilsfield, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales, the elde...
The Pickwick Bicycle Club was founded here on 22 June 1870. At that first meeting, it was decided that the Downs Hotel should be the general rendezvous for bi-weekly excursions on Wednesdays and Sa...
Lewisham was a local government district within the metropolitan area of London. It was formed by the Metropolis Management Act 1855, and was governed by the Lewisham District Board of Works, which...
In 1765 John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd set up a private banking business in Birmingham. In 1810, the Reverend Henry Duncan of Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, set up a bank to help his poorest parishioners...
Morley opened this building. With the pupil-less eyes this looks like a death mask in contrast to the sighted Raikes' keystone on the eas...
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