Born in Dublin as Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde. 'Importance of Being Earnest', 'Picture of Dorian Gray', etc. A flamboyant aesthete, he may have been Grossmith's model for the character Bunthorne in a Doyly Carte operetta. Would often stay overnight at the Cadogan Hotel (now the Belmond Cadogan Hotel) in Sloane Street and it was there that he was arrested for gross indecency, as told in John Betjeman's 1937 poem, 'The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel'. Died in Paris. Buried at Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris, in a tomb designed by Epstein.
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Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde - Clapham Junction
The plaque was unveiled by actor Russell Tovey and Mayor of Wandsworth, Lesli...
Oscar Wilde - Haymarket Theatre
Unveiled by Sir John Gielgud on the centenary of the first night of An Ideal ...
Oscar Wilde reclining
Unveiled by Lucian Holland, Wilde's great grandson, who made the unveiling sp...
Oscar Wilde - SW3
Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, wit and dramatist lived here. London County Council
St James's Theatre - 3 reliefs
The four bas-relief panels by Edward Bainbridge Copnall depict the heads of G...
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South London Fawcett Group
From their Twitter page: South London Fawcett Group is a local group of the Fawcett Society which campaigns nationally for equality between women and men.
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Leonard Montefiore
Author and philanthropist. Leonard Abraham Montefiore was born Kensington. Grand nephew to Moses. Was a friend of Oscar Wilde when they were both at Oxford University. Chief assistant to Samuel ...
1 memorial
Edith Mansell-Moullin
Suffragist of Welsh heritage and social activist. Proud of her Welsh roots, she founded the Cymric Suffrage Union, which was dedicated to gaining the vote for Welsh women. She was the co-organizer ...
1 memorial
Julia Scurr
Born Julia Sullivan in Limehouse, married John Scurr in 1900. Politically active, campaigning for working women, the unemployed, women's suffrage. 1919 elected to Poplar Borough Council and was imp...
2 memorials
Agnes Pochin
First woman to speak about women’s suffrage on a public platform. An early campaigner for women's rights. She funded campaigns, wrote one of the first tracts and was one of the three speakers at t...
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