Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
On this site, poet & apothecary John Keats, & his friend, the poet, apothecary, surgeon & chemist Henry Stephens, shared lodgings while studying at Guy's & St Thomas' hospitals, (1815-1816).
Guy's & St. Thomas' Charities Foundation
Unveiled as part of the 'Re-weaving Rainbows' event of National Science Week 2002.
SE1, St Thomas Street, 8
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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Keats and Stephens
Born 24 Moorfields Pavement Row, Finsbury. Baptised at St Botolphs. 1815-16 ...
Doctor and Inventor. Born Finchley. He invented an indelible blue-black ink. ...
Founded by Thomas Guy in concept in 1721 but it was not until 6 January 1725 ...
Named after Thomas a Becket, so possibly founded after 1173 when Becket was c...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Keats and Stephens
It can trace its origins back to 1553, when King Edward VI re-established St ...
Samuel Coleridge Taylor, 1875 - 1912, composer of the "Song of Hiawatha" live...
Admiral Robert Fitzroy, 1805 - 1865, explorer and pioneer of weather forecast...
