{On the plaque on the gate pier:}
To the memory of William Gilbert Grace, the great cricketer, 1848 - 1915, these gates were erected by the MCC and other friends and admirers.
{Above, inside the wreath:}
WGG
NW8, St John's Wood Road, Lord's Cricket Ground
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
W. G. Grace - Lord's
Cricketer and medical practitioner. Born William Gilbert Grace at Clematis Ho...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
W. G. Grace - Lord's
Cricket's ruling body. Founded when the first match was played at Lord's cri...
Architect. Born and brought up in Kent, trained as an architect in London. 18...
When we first visited, September 2014, there was no plaque, just two holes drilled in the front of the plinth to indicate that there had ...
Christchurch - Greyfriars This Wren church was destroyed by fire-bombs in December 1940. Under the pastoral reorganisation measure of 19...
There was only one British citizen amongst the victims; the others were Australian, Canadian, French, Spanish.
MCC The second Lord's Cricket Ground, 1811 - 1813, home of MCC, was located close to this site.
We think this plaque was probably erected in 1882 when the land was repurposed from burial ground to a garden, but a lot of the inscripti...
Established in 1887 to promote research that would benefit the British Empire. From 1893 it was housed in a building in Exhibition Road, designed by T. E. Collcutt. This was demolished in the 1950s...
Another plaque, further along the path reads: The Empress and I, as well as so many of our people, were deeply moved by the immediate res...
Novelist and poet, best known for his novels set in rural 'Wessex' such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd. Born Upper Bockhampton, Dorset. Before turning to writing full-t...
Born in Essex House. He was the son of Queen Elizabeth's Essex, and the last in the line.
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