Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Miss Boyd
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Rossetti fountain
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...
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Sir James Carmichael
Owned the building firm James Carmichael Ltd in Trinity Road Wandsworth Common. Director-General of Housing in England and Wales. He was a generous benefactor and in his lifetime gifted £40k to th...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Isaac le Gooch
Dutch merchant and jeweller to the king. Benefactor of Latymer School. Edith Streets, discussing Linden House in Upper Mall, writes: "This is used as a sailing and rowing clubhouse, owned by the L...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Benjamin Hopkin Morris
Middlesex County Councillor. Born Merthyr, Glamorgan. Left money in his will to repair the Chiswick almhouses which were then named in his memory. He was clearly a wealthy man: at Have Your Say Ho...
1 memorial
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Hyde Park Barracks - Victorian
SW7, South Carriage Drive, Hyde Park Barracks
This pediment comes from the Victorian barracks. From British History Online - Victorian barracks: “The riding-school's front to Hyde Par...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
1 memorial
Tyburn Turnpike House
This toll gate is thought to have stood about where Marble Arch now stands.
1 memorial
Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens
WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens
There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early p...
1 subject commemorated
Joseph Lister
Born in Upton, Essex. Died in Walmer, Kent. Pioneer in the use of antiseptics in surgery. The medical historian, Ruth Richardson, has an interesting piece in the Lancet reporting on how Agnes his w...
3 memorials
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