Wikipedia has a very useful map showing "Estate (freehold) ownership of land in Central London as of 2023". The Portman Estate is shown in yellow.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Portman Estate
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First curry house
Site of Hindoostane Coffee House 1810 London's first Indian restaurant. Owne...
Seacole - George Street
City of Westminster Mary Seacole, 1805 - 1881, Jamaican nurse, heroine of the...
Special Operations Executive (SOE)
See Musee de la Resistance for more information on this plaque (in French).
Other Subjects
British Land
From their website (the picture source): "founded in 1856 by three liberal MPs as a mechanism for expanding the field of voters eligible to elect Members of Parliament". We don't understand but si...
1 memorial
Monmouth House
The Duke of Monmouth obtained a site on the south side of Soho Square (then called King’s Square) in 1681 on which the house was built. After his execution it was owned by the Bateman family and be...
1 memorial
Octavia Hill
Housing reformer and co-founder of The National Trust. Born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, her father's eighth daughter (yes, really). She believed that social housing should be small houses (rather...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, History, Property, Social Welfare
10 memorials
Aubrey House
Built in 1698 by a group of doctors and apothecaries as a spa. It was originally called 'The Villa', became Notting Hill House in 1795 and was renamed as Aubrey House in the 1850s. It is now a grad...
1 memorial
Biggott House / Bigod House
Queen's-Haven have a post about this house, where it was and what occupied the site after it was gone, and gives "Norfolk House ... lies to the south of the foundations of Bigod House, sometimes ca...
1 memorial
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H. G. Wells
Born Bromley, Kent. Wrote "The Time Machine", "The War of the Worlds", "The History of Mr Polly" (1909). Married twice but believed in and practised free love. Had many affairs, his mistresses incl...
11 memorials
Lanesborough House
Built by James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough. Converted into a hospital in 1733. Three-storey, red brick simple design. Wings were later added to the structure by architect Isaac Ware. Demoli...
2 memorials
Sadako Sasaki
Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who was one of the c.100,000 people killed by the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. She was two years of age at the time and was severely irradiated. She survived f...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Queen Elizabeth I
Daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Born Greenwich Palace. Succeeded her half-sister Queen Mary I. Reigned: 1553 - 1603. Never married, no children, so followed by James I. Elizabeth I...
26 memorials
Francis Bird
Sculptor. Born in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Much admired in his day, his work can be seen at St Paul's and at Westminster Abbey. In 1729, leaving a tavern at Christmas, he slipped and ...
4 memorials
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