Dr Samuel Johnson, author, lived here. B. 1709. D. 1784.
{In the border, interleaved with the links of a chain, are the letters of:}
Erected by the Society of Arts
EC4, Gough Square, 17, Dr Johnson's House
The house is a museum, open to the public and contains many pictures of Johnson and his friends. The Barber plaque is on the railings below the Johnson one.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Samuel Johnson's house
Essayist, biographer, lexicographer and speaker of quotes. Born Lichfield, St...
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Samuel Johnson's house
Founded by William Shipley as the "Society of Arts" in Rawthmell's Coffee Hou...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Samuel Johnson's house
In our photo the plaque can be seen, halfway down, to the right of the door. It's easily missed and we only discovered it through the ver...
Sykes' family unveiled this plaque just 3 days after the first anniversary of his death. A plaque for Spike Milligan (unveiled by Sykes)...
This graveyard has a website all its own and the colourful crowd-sourced memorials attached to the railings are a splendid commemoration ...
Our thanks to our deciphering-of-difficult-to-read-inscriptions consultant, John Hartley, without whom we would be reporting that Emma Co...
