Born London. Entertainer and author. Created a number of the great Gilbert and Sullivan roles, including Bunthorne, possibly modelled on Oscar Wilde. With his brother Weedon wrote the comic novel 'The Diary of a Nobody'. Died at home, 32 Manor Road. His son with the same name was also in show business.
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George Grossmith, Snr
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George Grossmith, Snr
London County Council George Grossmith, 1847 - 1912, actor and author, lived ...
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James Bowen
Children's author. Born Surrey as James Anthony Bowen. His mother moved him as a child to Australia. Aged 17 he returned to the UK but he became homeless, began begging and started using heroin. Hi...
1 memorial
Wyndham Lewis
Artist and writer. Born Percy Wyndham Lewis but he didn't like the Percy and dropped it. He was born in his wealthy American father's yacht off Amherst, Nova Scotia, to a British mother who left he...
Person, Art, Literature, USA
1 memorial
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1 memorial
Valentine Cameron Prinsep
Born Calcutta, India. Artist and writer. His father was a civil servant in India and the family moved to England on his retirement. A minor figure in the Pre-Raphaelites, although he exhibited regu...
Person, Art, Literature, India
1 memorial
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A. E. Burgess
R/3831 Rifleman Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Age 37. Gone but not forgotten. Wife Emily and children.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Croydon Council
We think the "Croydon's Heritage" plaques must be erected by a section of Croydon Council. Certainly the Picture source website refers to the heritage plaques.
6 memorials
Scotland Yard
The first headquarters of the Metropolitan Police were named after the entrance on Great Scotland Yard. In about 1890 they moved from here to new premises by Norman Shaw on the Victoria Embankment,...
1 memorial
Phileas Fogg
Phileas Fogg is the fictional hero of Jules Verne's 'Around the World in Eighty Days'. Without reading the novel we can't confirm the middle 'J'. Inception run a chain of 'Fogg' themed establishm...
2 memorials
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