Michael Faraday the father of modern electrical science was born near here.
Historic Southwark
SE1, Newington Butts, University of the Arts
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Michael Faraday - SE1
Experimental physicist, especially electro-magnetics (remember Faraday's Law?...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Michael Faraday - SE1
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
We can't explain the quotation marks on the inscription and think they are probably not significant.
John Passmore Edwards, 1823 - 1911, journalist, editor and builder of free public libraries, lived here. English Heritage
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751 - 1816, dramatist and statesman lived here, 1795 - 1802. London County Council
This probably isn't a City of London plaque - though blue and oblong, the proportions are wrong, the style is different and its anonymous.
When we first visited in 2016 the building was undergoing renovations and was surrounded by hoardings, which sported a useful information...
