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 ...
{On a brass plaque in the porch:}The memorials on either side of this arch, c...
Jacqueline du Pre, 1945 - '87, cellist, lived here, 1970 - 1975. Heath and Ol...
We are grateful to Christina Ilonka Jansen for writing to us about these plaq...
The wording of this plaque is almost identical to that on the one that the Qu...
