Erection date: 2007
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1786 - 1845, anti-slavery campaigner, lived and worked here.
English Heritage
E1, Brick Lane, 91, Old Truman Brewery
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
The British abolition of slavery came in two parts: first the Abolition of th...
MP, brewer, slave abolitionist and social reformer. Born Essex. Entered the B...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
This plaque is on the left hand side of the courtyard.
St Mary-le-Strand's site says: "The roadway in front of Somerset House . . . Was occupied in the early seventeenth century by a windmill ...
For information about the church, including a good range of photographs see A London Inheritance.
An information map/board gives us "Charles Lamb was born in 2 Crown Office Row in 1775."
David Jones CH, 1895 - 1974, artist, soldier, poet, lived at this address 1895 - 1908. London Borough of Lewisham
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