On this spot Warren Hastings stood his trial 1788 - 1795. He was acquitted on all the charges.
SW1, St Margaret Street, Westminster Hall
These 11 plaques are laid into the floor of the hall, in a line down the middle, in this sequence, starting at the entrance end: R101; Hastings; Wentworth; More; Churchill; King Edward VII; Gladstone; King George VI and Queen Elizabeth; and King George V and Queen Mary.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Westminster Hall - Hastings
Born Oxfordshire. Joined the British East India Company as a clerk and rose t...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Westminster Hall - Hastings
Winston Churchill lay in state here from the twenty seventh of January until ...
Here rested, from May 17 until interment at Windsor May 20 1910, Edward VII, ...
We were unfamiliar with the word 'sepulture'. In this context it means the ri...
His Majesty King George the Sixth lay in state here from the eleventh of Febr...
His Majesty King George the Fifth lay in state here from the twenty-third of ...
According to ever-informative The Library Time Machine, Stoker "... the house of Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, not to mention the L...
From the ever-useful Lost Hospitals: In 1868 the Evangelical Protestant Deaconesses' Institution and Training Hospital moved into Avenue ...
2019: MansionGlobal reported that the house was for sale for £16 million, with an aspirational night-time photo of the pool at the back.
The Bee Gees, Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb, composed and stayed here, 1968 - 1980. City of Westminster The Heritage Foundation
From Notes & Queries 1920 "The trial of the King was, by order of the Court, held where the Courts of King's Bench and Chancery sat i...
An influential literary and art magazine. From a pdf issued for the unveiling: "... Stephen Spender joined Cyril Connolly and the wealthy patron Peter Watson in 1939 to set up Horizon at 6 Selwyn H...
British army officer. Born in India to a military family. One of the founders of modern guerrilla warfare, he specialised in creating military units which used these tactics, the best known such ...
Person, Armed Forces, Africa, Burma, India, Israel/Palestine
Inhabitant of Westminster and Governor of the Emery Hill Almshouses. Husband of Hannah Sara Chadwick. Died before 1850.
A recruitment consultant, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 61. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: John D. B. Raisin was born on 26 August 1938, the son of Alec R...
Architect. Based in Bristol. He also designed St Jude's in Mildmay and a fountain to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in Charlbury, Oxfordshire.
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them