Plaque

Sir Henry Wellcome

Inscription

English Heritage
Sir Henry Wellcome, 1853 - 1936, pharmacist, founder of the Wellcome Trust and Foundation lived here.

Site: Sir Henry Wellcome (1 memorial)

NW1, Gloucester Gate, 6

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Henry Wellcome

Subjects commemorated i

Sir Henry Wellcome

Born Wisconsin, USA, moved to London in 1880 for business reasons. Pharmacist...

Read More

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Henry Wellcome

Created by i

English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...

Read More

Nearby Memorials

Film industry

Film industry

WC2, Cecil Court, 27, Stephen Poole Fine Books

Simon Callow did the unveiling honours. There seems to be a battle going on in Wikipedia as to whether Gaumont or Nordisk were the first...

5 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
Sir Thomas Gresham - Old Broad Street

Sir Thomas Gresham - Old Broad Street

EC2, Old Broad Street

You have to hand it to these plaque erectors; they can erect a plaque just about anywhere, even in a hidden, difficult to reach corner li...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Joseph Whitaker

Joseph Whitaker

EN1, Silver Street, White Lodge

Whitaker lived here from 1862 until his death here in 1895.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Chancery

Chancery

WC2, Stone Buildings, 10

When, on the opening of the Law Courts in 1882, no 10 became vacant the Inns of Court Rifle Corps moved in. Lincoln's Inn provides a good...

1 subject commemorated
John Buchan

John Buchan

W1, Portland Place, 76, Institute of Physics Foyer

This plaque in the foyer of the Institute of Physics can be seen through the window. The very helpful receptionist let us photograph it. ...

1 subject commemorated

Previously viewed

Sir James Michael Yorrick Oliver

Sir James Michael Yorrick Oliver

James Michael Yorrick Oliver was born on 13 July 1940, his birth being registered in the 3rd quarter of 1940 in the Worthing Registration District, Sussex (now West Sussex). His mother's maiden nam...

Person, Liveries & Guilds, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Hertha Ayrton

Hertha Ayrton

W2, Norfolk Square, 41

Hertha Ayrton, 1854 - 1923, physicist, lived here, 1903 - 1923. English Heritage 

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
St Dunstans - noticeboards

St Dunstans - noticeboards

E1, Stepney High Street

We were reading this board and deciding it really was not interesting enough to collect, and then we read the last statement. The boards...

2 subjects commemorated