Born Edinburgh, died London. Known for his two-volume biography 'The Life Of Samuel Johnson' (1791).
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James Boswell
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Boswell and Johnson
Greater London Council In this house, occupied by Thomas Davies, bookseller,...
James Boswell
LCC James Boswell (1740 - 1795), biographer, lived and died in a house on th...
Johnson statue
This bronze statue is placed close to St Clement Dane's church, the one that ...
Spirit of Soho Mural
Interesting that Coca Cola are specifically mentioned on the panel but not as...
Wine Office Court
The Rhymers' Club is not specifically mentioned on the plaque but Ye Olde Che...
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Italo Svevo
Businessman and author. Born in Trieste (then part of Austria-Hungary) as Aron Ettore Schmitz. The pseudonym translates as 'Swabian Italian', but as the only definitions of Swabian relate to places...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Sir William Addison
Historian and author. Born William Wilkinson Addison at Mitton, Lancashire. He moved to Buckhurst Hill on the edge of Epping Forest, Essex, and began a lifelong association with the area, which res...
1 memorial
Vera Brittain
Vera Mary Brittain was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire the daughter of Thomas Arthur Brittain (1864-1935) and Edith Mary Brittain (1868-1948). Her father was a paper manufacturer. The 1...
2 memorials
Poets' Corner
The popular name for the south transept of Westminster Abbey. Geoffrey Chaucer was the first person to be interred here, although it was for his position as Clerk of Works to the Palace of Westmins...
1 memorial
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George Henry William Cashmore
George Henry William Cashmore acquired a patent for an improvement to the Lewis gun magazine. Submitted in 1918 and patented in 1919. Cashmore and Malcolm Hankey set up a foundry in Balham, that w...
1 memorial
Ann Crump of Hereford House
Niece of James Chamberlain. Cousin of William Pearce. Michelle Foate, Pearce’s great (x3) niece kindly gave us the following information: Hereford House was 12 Pond Street. James Bradley Chamberlai...
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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