Group    From 1875 

Shakespeare Reading Society

Categories: History, Theatre

Active in 1909 with Beerbohm Tree as President.

2018: Via Facebook Roger W. Haworth wrote to say that this organisation is active, with Judi Dench as President. We are pleased to hear that and sorry for all the toil and trouble that our previous misunderstand may have caused.

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Shakespeare Reading Society

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Globe Theatre plaque

This plaque was fixed to the wall of the brewery Barclay, Perkins & Co. ...

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Valerie Carter

Valerie Carter

Moved to Forty Hill in 1959. President of the Enfield Preservation Society, 1997 - her death. With a background in journalism and publishing she wrote/edited/assisted with a number of Enfield publi...

Person, Community / Clubs, History

2 memorials
W. E. H. Lecky

W. E. H. Lecky

Historian. Born William Edward Hartpole Lecky in Newtonpark, County Dublin, Ireland. Initially he studied to be a priest in the Protestant Church of Ireland, but turned to historiography. His chief...

Person, History, Literature, Ireland

1 memorial
John Donovan

John Donovan

Founder of Friern Barnet & District Local History Society. Lived in Friern Barnet between 1966 and 1995.

Person, Community / Clubs, History

1 memorial
Greenwich and Deptford History Trail

Greenwich and Deptford History Trail

This is a trail that has gone cold. We know of two other plaques which are part of it (Our Lady of the Assumption and Deptford Broadway), but none of the local libraries has full details.

Place, History

3 memorials
Amelia Edwards

Amelia Edwards

Egyptologist, novelist, journalist, traveller. Born Colebrook Row, Islington. First visited Egypt in 1873 and co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1882. Never married and bequeathed her collect...

Person, Exploring, History, Egypt

1 memorial

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Frank Pick

Frank Pick

NW11, Wildwood Road, 15

Note the use of London Underground’s own typeface, Johnston Sans.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Councillor W. H. Bryant

Councillor W. H. Bryant

Member of Housing Committee, Diss Street 1922. Councillor and Vice-Chair of the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.

Person, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Nicole Maree Harrison

Nicole Maree Harrison

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
W. Garrod
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Field Marshal Viscount William Slim

Field Marshal Viscount William Slim

Field Marshal. Born near Bristol, brought up in Birmingham. Fought and wounded in WW1. 14th Army Burma, 1943 - 1945, recaptured Burma from the Japanese in WW2. 1953 - 1960 Governor General of Austr...

Person, Armed Forces, Australia, Burma

1 memorial