He ruled over Kent, Sussex, Wessex and East Anglia. Famous for building the dyke named for him along the Welsh border. Settled a dispute with the Bishop of Worcester at the Council of Brentford in 781.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Offa, King of Mercia
Brentford High Street have carried out some magnificent research on Brentford...
Representative Deputy Lieutenant for Southwark from at least 2009. Former secondary school teacher who served 16 years on Westminster City Council. She was Lord Mayor of the City of Westminster in ...
Edward Augustus was the 4th son of George III and the father of Queen Victoria. In 1818 the only legitimate grandchild of George III died, leaving the succession shaky. The three unmarried sons of...
King of England. Son of Ethelred the Unready. Born between 1003 and 1005 at Islip, near Oxford. He is regarded as the last king of the house of Wessex. Little is known of his early life, except tha...
Sculptor. The picture on the right is his work 'A Polo Player'.
Virtuoso violist. Born in West Hartlepool. Initially he studied the violin in Leipzig and at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He was encouraged to take up the viola instead, and rapidly became o...
