Mainly known for 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' Click on external site for an entertaining and enthusiastic introduction to the writings. It was there that we learnt that Gibbon died following an operation to cure his hydrocele, (enlarged scrotum - think melons), a condition from which Mrs Thrale's husband also suffered.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Edward Gibbon
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Edward Gibbon
London County Council Edward Gibbon, 1737 - 1794, historian, lived in a hous...
Edward Gibbon - SW15
Plaque unveiled by Professor David Wormersley who has written many books on G...
Wine Office Court
The Rhymers' Club is not specifically mentioned on the plaque but Ye Olde Che...
Other Subjects
John Robert Daniel-Tyssen
Brother of the lord of Hackney Manor, and manorial steward. His father's surname was Daniel and his mother's Tyssen, which suggests she was the one with the money. In the mid-19th century the Tyss...
1 memorial
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Organisation responsible for the collection, conservation, and interpretation of Pennsylvania's historic heritage.
1 memorial
Thankfull Sturdee
Photographer and local historian. Born at 209 Evelyn Street, Deptford. He published 'Reminiscences of Old Deptford' in 1895. In 1911 he joined the Daily Mirror as a photographer, which was the firs...
1 memorial
Walter H. Godfrey
Walter Hindes Godfrey was born on 2 August 1881, the eldest of the six children of Walter Scott Godfrey (1855-1936) and Gertrude Annie Godfrey née Rendall (1855-1922). His birth was registered in t...
1 memorial
Welbore St. Clair Baddeley
Welbore St. Clair Baddeley was born on 30 September 1856 in St Leonards, Hastings, Sussex, the sixth of the seven children of Lieutenant Colonel John Fraser Loddington Baddeley, RA, (1825-1862) and...
1 memorial
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Bushra Nasir
Studied at Queen Mary University and in 1997 became the first Muslim headteacher of a state school, Plashet School for Girls in East Ham.
1 memorial
Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein
W1, Argyll Street, Dickens and Jones
1813 - 1814, Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein, lived in a house on this site during the last of her ten years of exile. La Soci...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Ava Gardner - memorial
SW7, Ennismore Gardens
Ava lived in Ennismore Gardens, in the first floor apartment the windows of which can be seen in the photograph. We were told that Carmen...
3 subjects commemorated
Hippocrates
Greek physician, known as the father of medicine. Born in 460 BC on the island of Cos, Greece. Died in 377 BC
2 memorials
Dorothy Nevill
W1, Charles Street, 45
City of Westminster Lady Dorothy Nevill, 1826 - 1913, horticulturist, collector, writer and hostess, lived here, 1873 - 1913.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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