This tablet commemorates the naming of this building in 1961 after the first Prime Minister of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Sir John Alexander MacDonald, G.C.B., P.C., Q.C.
The Hon. Paul Martin, P.C., Q.C., High Commissioner for Canada, October 1975.
{This text is then repeated in French.}
W1, Grosvenor Square, 1, MacDonald House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
MacDonald House
Born Glasgow, Scotland. Emigrated to Canada in 1820. first Prime Minister of ...
The church, St Peter's, is out of shot, over to the left. From Wikipedia's St Peter's Bethnal Green page: "Built as a commissioners' chu...
Opened in 1754 as the burial ground for St Andrew's Holborn but full and closed by 1850. The site now occupied by the splendidly Art Deco...
The plaque is very similar in style to these erected by the City of London, (example) but the erectors are staying anonymous.
This building was opened by HRH The Prince Albert KG on the 27th day of March 1920. Alderman Duncan Watson, JP, MIEE - Mayor Alderman Joh...
The plaque can be seen in our photo, in the pavement near the brown door.
Greater London Council Major-General William Roy, 1726 - 1790, founder of the Ordnance Survey, lived here.
In 1714 Russell was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and that year he commissioned this house at 43 King Street from the architect T...
Pilot. Born at Reynella, South Australia. He came to England in 1929 (or 1921, see below) and studied at Oxford. He became a test pilot for Hawker's and in 1940 was attached to 43 Squadron. On the ...
The picture shows the frigidarium, with statues in niches near the tops of the columns. The Turkish baths, constructed as part of the 1913 extension to the Imperial Hotel, were the subject of an e...
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