Created by Christina Foyle (daughter of William), the first guest of honour was Lord Justice Darling who spoke to 200 at the Holborn Restaurant. The Lunches were very successful and moved to the new Grosvenor House and sometimes had audiences of 2,000. Over the next 80 years more than 1,000 guests included Shaw, Wells Eliot, Barrie and Lennon. In 2006 the Daily Mail reported the Lunches being replaced with Teas.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Foyles Literary Lunches
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Foyles - David Attenborough
The most ferocious thing I have ever encountered in any trip abroad is not a ...
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Helene Hanff
Born Philadelphia. Wrote 84 Charing Cross Road in 1970. Later made into a play and film. Died New York City. The apartment building where she lived at 305 E. 72nd Street has been named "Charing ...
1 memorial
Major Byron F. Caws
Believed to have assisted Fowler in his work on the Concise Oxford Dictionary. The Latin on the memorial, 'castigavit et emendavit', translates as “he corrected and improved“, which is quite an ac...
1 memorial
Lady Dorothy Nevill
Hostess, horticulturist, collector, writer. Born 11 Berkeley Square. Daughter of Horatio Walpole, third earl of Orford, Died at home at 45 Charles Street.
1 memorial
E.F. Benson
Edward Frederic. Writer best know for the Mapp and Lucia series set in the village of Tilling, actually Rye, which Benson first visited to see Henry James who was staying there. Born Wellington C...
1 memorial
Edward Sackville-West
Edward Charles Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville was a music critic, novelist and, in his last 3 years, a member of the House of Lords. Born at Cadogan Gardens, son of Major-General Charles John...
Person, Literature, Music / songs, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
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Arthur H. Valentine
Committee chairman in Bow in 1900. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Initially (ha) we thought the middle initial on the plaque read 'R' but since that name lead nowhere Andrew ...
1 memorial
Anglo-Chinese friendship
13 March 1972: diplomatic relations were established between the UK and the People's Republic of China. Since then, with the economic rise of China, the UK has tried to maintain good relations, a t...
Concept, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, China/Hong Kong
1 memorial
Flower & Dean Estate - opened
E1, Flower and Dean Walk
We believe Toynbee is now (2014) part of One Housing but mergers in the housing association world are frequent and confusing.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Eagle Hut
From Heritage Images (link now dead): "The Eagle Hut was designed as a centre for soldiers on leave in London during the First World War, providing accommodation and food. A group of soldiers, incl...
1 memorial
Mrs Mallet
Concerned for the poor of Lambeth and was a district visitor in 1864 trying to identify families in need. She organized a refuge for women and then started to prepare penny dinners. She also ran mo...
1 memorial
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