Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 - 1797, author of 'A Vindication of the Right of Women', pioneer of women's rights and mother of Mary Shelley. Stayed in a house on this site in 1784 and lived early years in Hoxton.
London Borough of Hackney
E8, Mare Street, 373-5
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Mary Wollstonecraft - E8
Born in London, at the Polygon building in Somers Town. Parents: William Godw...
Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spita...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Mary Wollstonecraft - E8
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
Victorian Gs and Cs are often indistinguishable, so the dog could be Rough or Rouch. We've gone with Rough because that's the noise dogs ...
Daniel Mendoza, pugilist, 1764 - 1836, English champion who proudly billed himself as 'Mendoza the Jew', lived here when writing 'The Art...
From Jamaica Observer: The building ... was home to Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny 'Wailer' Livingston, Aston 'Family Man' Barrett and his...
2011 Kilburn Times reported: "The former site of the Grunwick factory, off Chapter Road, Dolis Hill, will be renamed Grunwick Close, to c...
The house was designed and built for Clarkson's theatrical costume shop. His celebrated theatrical clients laid the foundation and coping...
Sculptor and illustrator. Born Bloomsbury. Executed a large number of public statues and funerary works, and worked closely with George Gilbert Scott on the Albert Memorial. Died at home 52 Circus ...
Queen (in her own right) of the Netherlands 1890 - 1948, the longest reign of any monarch of that country. From the Picture source website: "Following the Nazi occupation during the Second World Wa...
Molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist. Born Chicago as James Dewey Watson. 1962 awarded a Nobel Prize with Crick and Wilkins, for their work on the theory of a double-helix structure for DNA.
Churchwarden of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook in 1884. Given the shared surname we thought this might be the Reverend White's son, Edward, but he would have been only 11 in 1884 so it's not hi...
