Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828 - 1882, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837 - 1909, lived here.
London County Council
SW3, Cheyne Walk, 16
Rossetti kept a menagerie in his back garden, much to the annoyance of his neighbours. It included a bull, a white peacock, a kangaroo, a raccoon and a wombat which had a liking for ladies’ hats. Consequently local house leases now forbid the keeping of such creatures.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rossetti & Swinburne
Poet & painter. Born 38 Charlotte Street, son of an Italian political ref...
Born 7 Chester Street, Chelsea. Poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Rossetti & Swinburne
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
Sir Thomas Beecham, 1879 - 1961, conductor and impresario, lived here, 1937 -...
