Erection date: 1/6/2011
Sir William Empson, 1906 – 1984, poet and critic, lived here 1929 - 1931, and at 71 Marchmont Street, 1934 -1936.
Marchmont Association
Unveiled by Sir Williams’ son, Jake Empson. At no 71 Empson lived in the the first floor flat.
WC1, Marchmont Street, 65
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir William Empson
Poet and critic. Born near Goole, Yorkshire. Considered a great English criti...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir William Empson
Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surround...
J. R. Ackerley, 1896 - 1967, writer and literary editor, lived here, 1941 - 1967. The Putney Society
Site of the parish church of St Stephen Coleman Street, 1452 - 1940. Corporation of London
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
Erected in 1885 this is the oldest surviving "blue" plaque to a woman.
Greater London Council The site of 17 Osnaburgh Street where The Fabian Society was founded in 1884.
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