Erection date: /6/2003
Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association
R.H. Tawney, 1880 - 1962, economic historian, Christian socialist and founding father of the welfare state, lived here.
Awards for all
NW5, Lissenden Gardens, Parliament Hill Mansions, 21 - 30
The Tawney plaque is on the first floor, Wood on the second.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
R. H. Tawney
Born Calcutta, India. Died in a nursing home in Fitzroy Square. Economic/so...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
R. H. Tawney
When we first researched this area in 2008 there were three plaques erected b...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
R. H. Tawney
2015: The histories of nos 10 and 11, now occupied by the British Academy, are covered by an excellent Londonist post. There we learn t...
Westminster City Council Pioneer aviator, sailor and author, Sir Francis Chichester KBE, 1901 - 1972, single-handed circumnavigator of t...
Below the oval blue plaque there is a foundation stone:This stone was laid by Mr William Forster - superintendantC. Mc.I North - Archt.Au...
This plaque refers to the Euston Road extension to the original 1908 Beresford Pite building, which is of much higher quality. Neill wa...
The architects of the 1933 building were Mewes & Davis (inscribed on a stone near the entrance), and of the 1964 building, Julian Sof...
Sculptor. William Silver Frith. Born Leicester. Other London work: Metropolitan Life Assurance Company building in Moorgate; Imperial College, South Kensington,; Two Temple Place.
