Politician, poet, founding trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951.
Born 21 Arlington Street, Piccadilly. Died Bridgewater House, London. Politician, poet.
Politician, poet, founding trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951.
Born 21 Arlington Street, Piccadilly. Died Bridgewater House, London. Politician, poet.
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Earl of Ellesmere, Francis Egerton
Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...
Novelist, known professionally as E. M. Forster. He was born at 6 Melcombe Place (demolished) on 1 January 1879 and his birth was registered as Henry Morgan Forster in the 1st quarter of 1879 in th...
A British-American occultist, artist, illustrator, writer and storyteller. Most famous for the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, first published 1910, she created the standard classic deck of the English-sp...
Person, Art, Craft / Design, Gender Issues, Literature, Paranormal, Jamaica, USA
Writer. Born Ian Lancaster Fleming at 27 Green Street, Mayfair. Christopher Lee was his step-cousin. He worked as a foreign correspondent with Reuters in Moscow, and was a senior naval intelligence...
Person, Armed Forces, Literature, Seriously Famous, Jamaica, Russia
The Voltaire Foundation is a research department in the University of Oxford, publishing in the area of the Eighteenth century, especially the French Enlightenment.
Novelist and theatre manager. Born Dublin. Came to London in 1878 with his new wife Florence Balcombe, previously Oscar Wilde's squeeze. Wrote Dracula whilst he was Irving’s acting manager at the ...
These plaques were originally located on the buildings of the Teddington Studios in Broom Road. The studios were closed and demolished in...
The first bridge at this site was built by John Rennie and named following British victory at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815. The 1831 demolition of the old medieval London Bridge caused changes in t...
William Gilpin 1724 - 1804 These flats have been built on the site of Cheam School. From 1752 - 1777, William Gilpin, satirised by Willia...
During the 126 years of its working life the Royal Docks, the largest enclosed docks in the world, must have employed a huge number of people.
The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting ..., Volume 3, 1810, gives the history of Glovers' Hall, as follows: In Beech Street, at Beech Lane, originally part of a palace belo...
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