One of Charles Dickens characters from David Copperfield (1850), based on Dickens' own father.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Mr. Micawber
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Charles Dickens relief
The characters represented in the mural are, left to right, top line: Scrooge...
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Les Miserables the musical
Originated in France as an album and then briefly as a show. Cameron Mackintosh got hold of it and the English show opened at the Barbican Centre in 1985. Moved first to the Palace and then on 3 A...
Charles Kitterbell
A character in Charles Dickens' sketches by Boz "The Bloomsbury Christening".
Little Nell and Granddad
Two of Charles Dickens characters from The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1). Oscar Wilde's response? "It would require a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Little Nell".
Mother Goose
The interment register at St Olaves Hart Street records Mother Goose being buried on 14 September 1586. This is extremely strange so we did some digging. The story of a goose laying golden eggs ca...
Phileas Fogg
Phileas Fogg is the fictional hero of Jules Verne's 'Around the World in Eighty Days'. Without reading the novel we can't confirm the middle 'J'. Inception run a chain of 'Fogg' themed establishm...
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Royal Brass Foundry
SE18, Number One Street, Woolwich Arsenal
The Royal Brass Foundry, 1717, attributed to Sir John Vanbrugh. Following an explosion at Bagley's Foundry at Moorfields in 1716 which k...
Sir William Prichard
Alder President associated with St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1702. A director of the slave trading Royal African Company and a governor of the colonial Irish Society.
Marcus Cornish
Sculptor. Other work in London includes the 2001 'Stag' in St James's Square.
John Raisin
A recruitment consultant, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 61. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: John D. B. Raisin was born on 26 August 1938, the son of Alec R...
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