1879 - 1905
Sir George Williams, 1821 - 1905, founder of the Young Men's Christian Association, lived at no 13 Russell Square.
In the photograph of the current building the plaque is behind the portico.
WC1, Russell Square
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir George Williams
Founded in 1844 by George Williams, the YMCA built their first gym in 1881 an...
Founder of the Young Men's Christian Association. Born Somerset. Died in a ho...
Near this site Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, Raymond Gosling, Alexander Stokes and Herbert Wilson performed experiments that led to...
The site of Tyburn Manor House, c.1250 - 1791, used by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I as a hunting lodge. Erected by Howard de Walden Estate...
At about the time that Evans gave the land for these almshouses he was confined for 44 days in a case relating to an obscene publication ...
From the ever-useful Lost Hospitals: In 1868 the Evangelical Protestant Deaconesses' Institution and Training Hospital moved into Avenue ...
A pleasingly unofficial blue plaque - a rather emphatic layout with the letters practically breaking out the circle.
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