Novelist. Born Hugh Seymour Walpole in Auckland, New Zealand, the son of Somerset Walpole. He was educated in Britain and became a schoolmaster before turning to authorship. His novels include 'Mr Perrin and Mr Traill', 'The Dark Forest' and 'The Secret City'. Knighted in 1937, he died at his home, Brackenburn, Manesty Park, Derwentwater, Cumberland.
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Hugh Walpole
This plaque is possibly spurious. It has definitely upset the Chairman of the...
Letter written by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas whilst he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol. The title means 'from the depths' and recounts the relationship that the pair shared. It criticises D...
Novella by H.G. Wells. The unnamed hero of the book travels on the eponymous machine to the year 802,701. Initially he finds the world has become an idyllic place populated by a childlike race call...
Author. Born John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, in Dorridge near Knowle, Warwickshire. Most of his novels are about terrestrial apocalypses (he disliked the term science-fiction). The best kn...
Writer. Born George Norman Douglas in Thüringen, Austria, the son of a mountaineer and archaeologist. Joined the Foreign Office in 1894 and served in St Petersburg. He settled in Capri, where his c...
Novel by H. G. Wells about the invasion of Earth by Mars. One of the first novels in the science-fiction genre. It has been filmed, produced as a musical album by Jeff Wayne, and famously caused ne...
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling, where we note that the statue is veiled by a ...
The BBC report of the unveiling contains a limerick composed and read by a Westminster councillor at the event. This demonstrates that l...
Doctor and Inventor. Born Finchley. He invented an indelible blue-black ink. Not to be confused with his son Henry Charles 'Inky' Stephens.
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