Author, naturalist and ornithologist. Born on a small ranch, Los Viente-cinco Ombúes, near Quilmes in Buenos Aires province. Came to Britain in 1874 and produced a series of ornithological studies.Founding and influential member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. As a novelist, his best known work is the 1904 'Green Mansions'. Died at his home, 40 St Luke's Road, where the two plaques are.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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William Henry Hudson
The sculpture represents Rima, the nature-spirit heroine of Hudson's book "Gr...
W H Hudson, writer & naturalist, 1841 - 1922. In commemoration of the 150...
The plaque was erected by Hudson's Friends Society of Quilmes in 1938 and ado...
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Born near Hull. Joint pastor of the Islington Union Chapel from 1843/4 with Thomas Lewis, taking sole charge on Lewis's death in 1852, until his own death. Friends with Gladstone and Asquith (wh...
Previously known as the Performing Rights Society. They have also erected plaques to Squeeze, Jethro Tull and Blur.
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Built by Thomas Henry Wyatt, in the Italianate style. It became a royal garrison church in 1928, following a visit by King George V. It contains many mosaics, particularly one by Antonio Salviati, ...
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