In memory of Victor Andrew D'Biere McLaglen, 10.12.1886 to 7.11.1959, boxer & Oscar winner for The Informer.
E1, Commercial Road, 505
The oblong plaque above the Mclaglen plaque reads: "495 - 515 Commercial Road, Spitalfields Housing Association Ltd."
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Victor McLaglen
Boxer and film actor. Born as Victor Andrew D'Biere McLaglen in, according t...
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Site of former Bull and George Hotel 18th century coaching inn.
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Painter and designer. Born Scotland but brought up in India, Burma and Rugby School. Cousin and for a time lover of Lyton Strachey, through whom he met and joined the Bloomsbury Group. He also had ...
Born Stafford County, Virginia, USA. Social reformer and ethical preacher. He abandoned his Methodist ministry because of what he saw as its repression of free thought and became a Unitarian. He ca...
Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Social Welfare, France, USA
Composer. Born Lowestoft on St Cecilia's Day (patron saint of music). Royal College of Music, Founder of English Opera Group 1946 and the Aldeburgh Festival. Composer of opera Peter Grimes and othe...
Believed to be the first public sculpture in London commissioned by a Livery Company. We would have expected the inscriptions (WDR and W...
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