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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Sir Edmund Gosse
Born 13 Trafalgar Terrace (now 56 Mortimer Road), Hackney, son of Philip Gosse. Writer, best known for his book ‘Father and Son’ which is partly autobiographical and depicts the new generation free...
2 memorials
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Prague
Established as a non-profit organisation, it was originally set up to promote the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe and to encourage and promote old and new artistic interpretations of his works. I...
3 memorials
John le Carré
Pen name of espionage novel writer, David John Moore Cornwell. Born in Poole, Dorset. He took up writing when he was working for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 60s. Best known for the novels 'The Spy...
1 memorial
The Village in the Jungle
Novel written by Leonard Woolf, published 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon, but unusually written from the native point of view.
1 memorial
George Gissing
Goerge Robert Gissing. Novelist, best known for ‘New Grub Street’ about the hack writers who were concentrated in Grub Street, EC2. In 1830 Grub Street was renamed Milton Street; in WW2 it was badl...
3 memorials
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RMS Titanic Engineers
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1 memorial
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
Lillie Langtry
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4 memorials
1 memorial
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EC4, New Change, One New Change - roof terrace
The star is surrounded by an English rose, a Scots thistle, an Irish clover sprig and a Welsh daffodil. This mosaic, the right most, doe...
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