Erection date: 2007
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1786 - 1845, anti-slavery campaigner, lived and worked here.
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E1, Brick Lane, 91, Old Truman Brewery
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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
Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, 1887 - 1969, politician and writer, lived here. English Heritage
Ettore Schmitz alias Italo Svevo, 1861-1928, writer, lived here 1903-1913. English Heritage
Matthew Bell realised that The Great Rising lacked a proper memorial and that this bay was ready and waiting. It took some effort, and a...
English Heritage Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1884-1969, novelist, lived here, 1934-1969.
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