Cookery writer. Born as Elizabeth Gwynne into a wealthy family. Travelled in Europe and around the Mediterranean, spending some years in Cairo, where she married in 1944. Returned to England in 1946. moving into the Chelsea house in 1947, divorced in 1960. No children. Her first book 'A Book of Mediterranean Food', 1950, was welcomed by the Britain of wartime austerity. Died at her Chelsea home.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Elizabeth David
Commemorated ati
Elizabeth David
Elizabeth David, 1913 - 1992, cookery writer, lived and worked here, 1947 - 1...
Other Subjects
Tabard Inn
Set up by an abbot from Winchester to give his brethren somewhere to stay in London and to provide accomodation to pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, in particular Chaucer's pilgrims, who set off...
1 memorial
First Pizza Express
Founded in 1965 by Peter Boizot, Pizza Express opened its first restaurant in Wardour Street. Inspired by a trip to Italy, Boizot brought back to London a pizza oven from Naples and a chef from Sic...
1 memorial
Gordon Victor Young
Businessman in the fish industry. "Who knew Billingsgate Market well and built up the family business, W. Young & Son." The quote is on the plaque but we can't trace it, or indeed, find out any...
1 memorial
Great Conduit
In 1236/7 the City of London was granted permission to tap the Tyburn Springs, at about where Stratford Place now is. Work to build the conduit began in 1245. it went via Piccadilly, Charing Cross,...
2 memorials
Worshipful Company of Bakers
Charter granted by King Henry VII in 1486. The City's second oldest guild. (Weavers is the answer to your question.)
2 memorials
Previously viewed
William Curtis Ecological Park
The William Curtis Ecological Park was the United Kingdom's first urban ecology park. Max Nicholson and the Trust for Urban Ecology (created at the same time, by Nicholson) created it on a derelict...
1 memorial
Councillor Henry P. Wilson
Councillor and Mayor of Bethnal Green in 1936-7. JP and Alderman, on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1952.
1 memorial
Glennis Margaret Stevenson
We found only one possible reference to this person, on a Wikipedia page which reads: Stevenson, Glennis. "Letitia Landon and the Victorian Improvisatrice: The Construction of L.E.L." Victorian Poe...
1 memorial
Evelyn Waugh
NW11, North End Road, 145
When Waugh was three the family moved to this house, "Underhill", built by his father. Waugh used to walk up the road to the postbox near...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them