Sculptor and poet. Born Hadleigh Suffolk. Early member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Emigrated to Australia 1852-3 for economic reasons. Buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Hendon.
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John Hunter, Leicester Square
John Hunter, 13 February 1728 - 16 October 1793, pioneer anatomist and surgeo...
Palmerston statue
{On the front of the plinth and repeated on the back:} Viscount Palmerston {...
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Oscar Wilde
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 Bunt...
Person, Gender Issues, Literature, Poetry, Seriously Famous, Theatre, France, Ireland
7 memorials
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poet & painter. Born 38 Charlotte Street, son of an Italian political refugee and Professor of Italian (with a bit of a thing about Dante). Brother to Christina. Their mother was brother to Dr ...
4 memorials
Alice Meynell
Poet and journalist. Alice Thompson was born in Barnes. Her paternal grandmother was an unmarried Creole. Educated with her sister entirely by their father as they lived a peripatetic life mainl...
1 memorial
Rossiter W. Raymond
Born Rossiter Worthington Raymond, an American mining engineer, legal scholar and author, amongst other skills. Best known for the last few lines of his poem 'Death is only a horizon'. However the ...
1 memorial
Tiruvalluvar
Author of the Tirukkural, the classic text of Tamil philosophy and ethics. The Tamil poet is commonly believed to have been born in the First Century BC in Madras (now called Chennai) in south ea...
1 memorial
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Sir Charles Santley
NW8, Blenheim Road, 13
Sir Charles Santley (1834 - 1922) singer, lived and died here. L.C.C.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Coopers' Corner
EC2, Basinghall Street
In our picture the blue plaque is above the orange barriers and the Coopers' Hall memorial is on the low wall to the left, in front of a ...
1 subject commemorated
1 memorial
Jacob the dray horse
SE1, Queen Elizabeth Street, The Circle
We are not convinced by the derivation of Horselydown. Horses don't lie down to rest, do they? We imagine this horse is named Jacob after...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Baynard's Castle
EC4, Riverside walkway
This area of London has changed beyond all recognition. A London Inheritance has done a great job reimagining how it used to be.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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