Writer and literary adviser. Born Newcastle upon Tyne. Came to London in 1828 to attend University College and to enter Inner Temple. A good friend of Charles Dickens he published his biography in 1872-4. Built Palace Gate House, W8 as a home for him and his wife, and died there.
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John Forster
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Dickens at Cobley Farm
Returned from his first trip to America Dickens spent some time here in 1842-...
Wine Office Court
The Rhymers' Club is not specifically mentioned on the plaque but Ye Olde Che...
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Pamela Colman Smith
A British-American occultist, artist, illustrator, writer and storyteller. Most famous for the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, first published 1910, she created the standard classic deck of the English-sp...
Person, Art, Craft / Design, Gender Issues, Literature, Paranormal, Jamaica, USA
1 memorial
The Wind in the Willows
Written by Kenneth Grahame, much of it based on a series of letters to he wrote to his son. First published October 1908.
1 memorial
C. S. Forester
Novelist. Born Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith in Cairo. He adopted the Forester pseudonym when his writing career began in 1923. Best known for the 'Hornblower' series of novels, he also wrote 'The Af...
Person, Literature, Egypt, USA
1 memorial
Ernest Raymond
Novelist, author of more than fifty books included We the Accused.
1 memorial
Ben Okri
Poet and novelist. Born Nigeria but spent his early childhood in London. Returned to England to study in the late 1970s. His 1991 novel 'The Famished Road' won the Booker Prize.
1 memorial
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Richard Aylmore
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Hanover Chapel
W1, Regent Street, Regent House
Built in 1893-8, Regent House was the first building in the replacement of the John Nash Regent Street, completed in 1927. It is now (20...
1 subject commemorated
Borough of Holborn
WC2, St Giles High Street, St Giles Church
St Giles-in-the-Fields was founded as a leper hospital by Matilda, Queen of Henry I in 1101; it was dissolved in 1539 and its former chap...
1 subject commemorated
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
C. A. Robinson & Co
Scrap metal dealers in Greenwich, founded by Charles Robinson. In 1953 leased the land that became Anchor Iron & Crowley's Wharf, and moved there. The principal cargoes were scrap iron, lead i...
3 memorials
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