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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Samuel Augustine Courtauld
Philanthropist and editor. Associated with Halstead, Braintree. Almost certainly related to Samuel Courtauld of Institute fame but we cannot discover how.
1 memorial
Charles Morgan
Playwright, novelist and critic. Born Bromley, Kent, son of the engineer Sir Charles Langbridge Morgan. Died at the house with the plaque.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Christabel, Lady Aberconway
Renowned beauty, cultural socialite and writer. Born as Christabel Mary Melville Macnaghten into a wealthy Irish family, daughter of the criminologist Sir Melville Macnaghten, who investigated the...
1 memorial
Jerome K. Jerome
Novelist and playwright. Born Jerome Clapp Jerome at Bradford Street, Walsall, Staffordshire. He supposedly changed his middle name to Klapka in homage to General George Klapka, a hero of the Hunga...
2 memorials
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John Cranmer Cambridge
For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.
1 memorial
Old Palace School - WW2 bomb
E3, St Leonard's Street, Old Palace Primary School
The Beckenham firemen are also commemorated, and listed by name, on a plaque at Beckenham Fire Station. 2022: The great-nephew of one of...
5 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Stables at Camden Goods Depot
The excellent Camden Railway Heritage Trust tells you all you need to know about this Goods Depot. The horses and stables have their own page from which our picture comes.
1 memorial
GI graffiti on bricks
SW1, Caxton Street, Blewcoat School
We have found another example of carved bricks: Emma Bowden.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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