Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797), 'The African', lived and published here in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the barbarity of slavery, which paved the way for its abolition.
City of Westminster
W1, Riding House Street, 67-73
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Olaudah Equiano - Riding House Street
Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Olaudah Equiano - Riding House Street
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Londonist brought this engaging multiple memorial to our attention. Information about visiting Fulham Palace. Bishop Porteus looks out c...
English Heritage Count Edward Raczynski, 1891 - 1993, Polish statesman lived here, 1967 - 1993.
The stone was erected on the base of one of Baird's television masts. Our picture is taken from the History of Kingsbury Manor website wh...
On our visit the sun was so strong and at such an angle that it rendered the plaque illegible if photographed square on.
Tobias Matthay, 1858 - 1945, teacher and pianist, lived here. Greater London Council
Newspaper publisher and politician. Born William Maxwell Aitken in Maple, Ontario. He came to Britain in 1910, and served as an MP 1911-16. In 1919, he took over The Daily Express, and later founde...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Canada
Galsworthy was not well enough to go to the ceremony to receive his Nobel Prize for Literature, so they brought it to him at his home here.
Born Katharine Symonds in Bristol. She spent most of her early life in Switzerland and Italy. She joined the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Department in 1909, and at the outbreak of WW1, she headed the f...
Fireman killed in the Dudgeon's Wharf explosion. Andrew Behan has researched Carvosso: Fireman Trevor Paul Carvosso was born on 3 April 1946 and his birth was registered in East Ham. He was one of...
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