Erection date: 16/11/2006
City of Westminster
Rosa Lewis, 1867 - 1952, chef de cuisine and hotelier, dramatised as 'The Duchess of Duke Street', ruled the Cavendish Hotel in a building on this site.
SW1, Jermyn Street, 81, The Cavendish Hotel
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rosa Lewis
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BBC television series, loosely based on the career of Rosa Lewis. It starred ...
Hotelier. Born Rosa Ovenden at Leyton, Essex. She started her working life as...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Rosa Lewis
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The address was 7 Assembly Row when Cook and his family moved in, 1764.
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Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 1852 - 1928, Prime Minister, lived here. Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
Head of the choir school at St Pauls. When he died he was vicar of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, and Prebendary of St. Paul's. Andrew Behan and kindly researched this entry for us: Born 2 Paradise Pl...
Reigned: 1660 - 1685. Born at St James's Palace. The son of the beheaded Charles I, he was the king "restored" to the throne after the civil war. Married Catherine of Braganza in 1662 but she prod...
Publicist and businessman. Born and died London. Nephew to Sir Osbert and Dame Edith. At one time was chairman of the Park Lane Group. Literary executor to Dame Edith. From his Independent obit. he...
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