Erection date: 2003
English Heritage
Mary Shelley, 1797-1851, author of Frankenstein, lived here, 1846-1851.
SW1, Chester Square, 24
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Mary Shelley
Character created by Mary Shelley in her eponymous book. The Somers Town Mur...
Born in London, at the Polygon building in Somers Town. Parents: William Godw...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Mary Shelley
English Heritage Sylvia Plath, 1932 - 1963, poet, lived here, 1960 - 1961.
From: British History: "This building was erected in 1851 as a school by the Congregationalists of the adjoining Horbury Chapel. The arc...
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, 1844 - 1889, priest and poet, lived in Oakhill Park 1852 - 1863. "The World is charged with the grandeur of Go...
This plaque is on the left hand side of the courtyard.
Faraday House Electrical Engineering College occupied this building from June 1903 until April 1967.
MP, Minister in the Blair / Brown governments 1997-2010. Born Marylebone. Her Wikipedia page gives much information about her life and together with her obituary confirms that she died, aged 70 ye...
Photographer. Born David Royston Bailey in Leytonstone. He was contracted to Vogue magazine in 1960 and played a major part in capturing the images of the 'Swinging 60s'. He photographed both the f...
