{In the scroll at the top, French for 'My faith in God':}
Ma foi en dieu.
This stone, the first in the new street, was laid by Robert Edwin Villiers, 8 June 1885. Reconstructed by Trollope and Coles Ltd 1988.
Peto Bros. Builders
W1, Shaftesbury Avenue, Trocadero Centre
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Robert Edwin Villiers
This framed photo is in the ground floor foyer of this block of flats.
London County Council Sir George Alexander, 1858 - 1918, actor manager, lived here.
Frederick Douglass 1818 - 1895, American social reformer, author, orator and statesman, stayed in a house on this site, 1846. Embassy of ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-1863), novelist, lived here, 1854-1862. L.C.C.
The plaque is not on Belair House itself which is set a long way back, but on the gatehouse which is on the road.