Dame Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina assolluta and Jacqueline du Pré, cellist lived here.
Lisa O'Brien has pointed out that the plaque-makers got 'assoluta' wrong.
Site: Margot Fonteyn & J. du Pre (1 memorial)
SW7, Rutland Gardens Mews, 2
Dame Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina assolluta and Jacqueline du Pré, cellist lived here.
Lisa O'Brien has pointed out that the plaque-makers got 'assoluta' wrong.
SW7, Rutland Gardens Mews, 2
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Margot Fonteyn & J. du Pre
Cellist. Born Jacqueline Mary du Pré in Oxford. Her musical training began wi...
Prima ballerina assoluta. Born Reigate as Margaret Hookham. As a child lived...
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins 1861 - 1947 biochemist Nobel Prize winner 1929, lived in this house 1878 - 1898. London Borough of Enfield
The Duke of Sussex had died just 3 years before this plaque was erected. We think the architect of this wing was Dr John Samuel Phene -...
2021: We noticed that the site has been rebuilt and the plaque (now slightly damaged, but our photo does not show that) positioned on the...
Robert Browning lived in this house 1887 - 1889, from here his body was taken for interment in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey.
This terracotta-coloured plaque is now in Australia (see eHive) with one of the chimney pots. See Captain Cook's house for information an...