Person    | Male  Born 18/4/1798  Died 25/6/1866

George Lillie Craik

Categories: Education, History, Literature

Countries: Ireland, Scotland

George Lillie Craik

Born Kennoway, Fife. Literary scholar and writer. Created professor of English literature and history at Queen’s College, Belfast in 1849. Buried at Holywood, near Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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George Lillie Craik

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Rossetti fountain

Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...

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St Mary Rotherhithe Free School

St Mary Rotherhithe Free School

Charity school. Co-founded by Robert Bell and Peter Hill for the education of the sons of seafarers. It was originally located next to the church of St Mary the Virgin and moved across the road in ...

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Herbert Howells

Herbert Howells

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Person, Education, Music / songs

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Waltham Forest College

Waltham Forest College

Originally founded as the South West Essex Technical College. It offers a wide variety of courses for students.

Building, Education

1 memorial
Westminster School Society

Westminster School Society

A charity administered by a council of Old Westminsters that provides financial assistance to Westminster School for the benefit of current pupils.

Group, Benefactor, Education

2 memorials
John Eames, FRS

John Eames, FRS

Trained as a minister but worked as a tutor.  Elected Fellow of the Royal Society through his friendship with Isaac Newton. Unmarried. Died in Coleman Street. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.

Person, Education

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Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay

W1, Hinde Street, 11

Sources give no. 20 as her address so we guess the street has been renumbered since then.

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James Hall (writer)

James Hall (writer)

Writer and journalist. James Hall started the campaign to commemorate the first recording studio after he chanced upon it while researching his novel, The Industry Of Human Happiness, set in the ea...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature

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LEP Transport Ltd

LEP Transport Ltd

From COSGB: "LEP Transport was a freight company established in 1910 in London. The company name was derived from the initials of the three founding partners; Longstaff, Ehrenberg and Pollack."  Mo...

Group, Commerce, Transport

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Sue Roe, OBE

Sue Roe, OBE

Chairman of the Tree Council in 2003

Person, Politics & Administration

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Kennington Palace

Kennington Palace

SE11, Kennington Lane, 154 - 182, Edinburgh House

Diamond Geezer reports "... the triangle of land bounded by Kennington Lane, Cardigan Street and Sancroft Street remains under the contro...

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