Sir Walter Besant, 1836 - 1901, novelist and antiquarian.
NW3, Frognal, 106
In 1892 Besant built a substantial house just to the east of this one, where there is an official, significant plaque. We can find no reference on-line to him also having lived in this earlier, much smaller property. Perhaps he lived here briefly while his house was being built.
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Sir Walter Besant - Frognal
Novelist and London historian. Born Portsmouth. 1884 co-founded the Society ...
The plaque is located behind a high exterior wall which makes it difficult to get a sharper photograph.
The names on the outer circumference sound as though they are areas of Blackheath, but we cannot find any confirmation for this. 2024: W...
Greater London Council Randolph Caldecott, 1846 - 1886, artist and book illustrator, lived here.
But he did not live in the building here today, he lived in Furnival's Inn.
Near this spot at 62 Fore Street on the 29th January 1850 was born Sir Ebenezer Howard, founder of the Garden City Movement. The Corporat...
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