Person    | Male  Born 22/4/1707  Died 8/10/1754

Henry Fielding

Categories: Law, Literature, Theatre

Countries: Portugal

Novelist, playwright. Born Somerset. Half-brother to Sir John Fielding. Lived in Bow Street and Essex Street. Play: The Miser. Novels: Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones. As magistrate he carried out a number of reforms including the formation of the 'Bow Street Runners', the first modern police force. Towards the end of his life moved to Ealing. Travelled to Portugal for his health but died near Lisbon and was buried there in the English cemetery at St George's Church.

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Henry Fielding

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Bow Street

Bow Street was formed about 1637. It has been the residence of many notable m...

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Essex Street & Essex Hall

This plaque was first erected at 7 Essex Street in 1962 and then re-erected h...

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Whitecross Debtors' Prison

Whitecross Debtors' Prison

This was on the southern most section of Whitecross Street, immediately north of St Giles Cripplegate, considerably further south than the plaque location.  Designed by William Montague and built i...

Building, Law

1 memorial
Sir Edwin Chadwick

Sir Edwin Chadwick

Born Lancashire but brought up in London. A friend of Jeremy Bentham, Bentham dying in his arms. Chadwick's major achievement was the 1842 publication of the Poor Law Commissioners' "Report on the ...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Lieutenant Francis Victor Robinson

Lieutenant Francis Victor Robinson

Francis Victor Robinson was a son of Charles Sydney Robinson (1849-1913) and Marian Emma Robinson née Dent 1850-1901). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1883 in the Barnet registration...

Person, Armed Forces, Law, Egypt

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lamb Building

Lamb Building

Just to the south-east of Temple Church, it stood on the original burial ground of the Knights Templar. Rebuilt in 1667 after the Great Fire. Destroyed by enemy action 11th May 1941. The name "L...

Building, Law

1 memorial
F. Brader

F. Brader

Alderman in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Frederick Brader was born about 1880 and in late 1914 he married Lilian Soper in Fulham, their s...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Captain John Smith

Captain John Smith

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Person, Exploring, Race Issues, USA

2 memorials
Second Millennium - The Brewers

Second Millennium - The Brewers

EC2, Aldermanbury Square

There is a cross on the reverse of the monument.

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