Novelist, considered one of the greatest writers in English, despite it not being his mother-tongue. Born into a noble Polish family in what is now Ukraine. Working on ships he came to Britain in 1878 and learnt English. In 1886 he took British nationality. His works include: 'The secret agent' and 'Heart of darkness'. Died at home near Canterbury.
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Joseph Conrad
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Mont Blanc restaurant
City of Westminster Site of the Mont Blanc Restaurant where leading writers,...
Other Subjects
Sir Thomas More
Born Milk Street. In conflict with Henry VIII over religion he was imprisoned in the tower, found guilty of treason and beheaded on Tower Hill. Final words: "The King's good servant, but God's Firs...
Person, Execution, Literature, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous
17 memorials
1 memorial
Royal Literary Fund
British benevolent fund for professional published authors in financial difficulties. The Prince Regent supported it by providing premises at 36 Gerrard Street.
1 memorial
Lord Leslie Haden-Guest
Born Oldham. Author, journalist, doctor and member of parliament. Served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Boer War, WW1 and WW2, winning a Military Cross. First Jewish Labour Party candidat...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
The Village in the Jungle
Novel written by Leonard Woolf, published 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon, but unusually written from the native point of view.
1 memorial
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Thomas Cubitt
Builder. Born at Buxton, near Norwich. He travelled to India as a ship's carpenter, from which he was able to raise sufficient funds to start his own building firm in 1810. His two brothers: Willi...
5 memorials
Nike Statue - Plaque 2
SE18, Number 1 Street, Main Guardhouse
We think the last line of the plaque means that Kougioumtzis is the sculptor of the Spirit of the Games, not, as we first read it that he...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Serjeant Barbara Mary Austin
Barbara Mary Austin was born on 2 August 1920 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, the youngest of the four children of Edward Neville Lefroy Austin (1873-1924) and Nora Frances Aust...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
George III with the River god
WC2, Strand, Somerset House Courtyard
Bronze statue erected in 1789 showing the king who had commissioned the rebuilding of Somerset House. The statue is awash with nautical a...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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