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 (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
The church plaque is below the large wooden cross. the twinning plaque, unusually large, is on the wall to the right, below the tree.
Bartlett Surgeon Accoucheur {French for obstetrician surgeon}
Plaque unveiled by Roger Draper, Chief Executive of the Lawn Tennis Association.
English Heritage William Henry Barlow, 1812-1902, engineer, lived and died here.
Born Aigburth, Liverpool, Lancashire. Died Yattendon Court, Berkshire. Most notable buildings are the Natural History Museum, London and many of the major offices of the Prudential Assurance Compan...
Born Dublin. Works include: Albert and the group Asia, both at the Albert Memorial, After Foley's death the statue of Albert was finished by his assistant Thomas Brock. Died at home, The Priory, Up...
Executed for regicide. In the civil war he fought on the side of Parliament against King Charles I. Close to Cromwell, he was elected to the Long Parliament, sat as a judge in the King's trial and...
A group of philanthropists, led by Rev. George Charles ‘Boatswain’ Smith (1782–1863) founded the Destitute Sailors' Asylum in 1827, based in a converted warehouse in Dock Street and providing shelt...
Born in Lucé, near Domfront, Normandy, his name is also spelt 'de Luci'. He is first mentioned as High Sheriff of Essex, and later as Chief Justiciar to King Henry II. (Justiciar was roughly equiva...
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