Novelist. Born Calcutta, full name William Makepeace Thackeray. Best known for the novel: Vanity Fair. Died suddenly from a stroke having returned home to Onslow Square after dining out. He was found dead the next morning so the date of death is sometimes given as 24th. This was apparently unexpected despite him being overweight, a big eater and an exercise-avoider. It was estimated that 7,000 people attended his funeral.
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William Thackeray
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Bradbury & Evans
Oh, dear, what is happening to the City plaques? This one looks really cheap...
Chiswick Square
The houses each side were built about 1680. Boston House built in 1740, on th...
CI - 8 - Books
This carving depicts the two Brontë sisters meeting Thackeray, but rather fai...
Rules Restaurant 2
Rules®. London's oldest restaurant. In the year Napoleon opened his campaign ...
Tom Cribb Public House
Tom Cribb Tom Cribb was the British bare-knuckle boxing champion between 1809...
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John Walker
Author of the Pronouncing Dictionary. Actor then teacher. Published "Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, Rules Addressed to Citizens of Scotland, Ireland and London" in 1791. Friends with Dr. Johnson...
1 memorial
Francis Bret Harte
American writer, best know for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Born New York. Came to London in 1885 via Germany and Glasgow. Buried at Frimley, Surrey. Some sources, contradicti...
1 memorial
William Gilpin
Artist, author, cleric and schoolmaster. He was a sketcher and collector of prints, and worked as a curate, before becoming a master, and then headmaster at Cheam School. In 1768 he published 'Ess...
1 memorial
Hilda Seligman
Author and sculptor. Born Hilda Mary McDowell. In the 1930s she entertained both Mahatma Gandhi and Haile Selassie at her home in Wimbledon, and sculpted the bust of Selassie which now stands in Ca...
1 memorial
George Eliot
Novelist. Born Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire. Pen name of Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans. Spent her first 21 years on a farm, now (2015) the Griff House Beefeater Grill restaurant on the Coventry Road...
3 memorials
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Sir William Powell's Almshouses
SW6, Church Gate
Founded in 1680 by Sir William Powell to house twelve widows. Rebuilt in 1793, and again in 1869. Residency is still reserved for older w...
1 subject commemorated
Charles Dickens - Museum / Devonshire Terrace
WC1, Doughty Street, Dickens Museum
LookandLearn has a photo of the building, no.1, before it was demolished. The Dickens relief also commemorates his stay at this address.
1 subject commemorated
Tsunami in the Indian Ocean
More than 230,000 people died, 153 being British.
Event, Tragedy, Africa, Burma, India, Indian Sub-continent, Indonesia, Malaysia, Southeast Asia
1 memorial
Bethlehem Hospital - first
EC2, Liverpool Street
Site of the first Bethlehem Hospital 1247 - 1676. The Corporation of the City of London
1 subject commemorated,
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Richard Desmond
Wealthy publisher and philanthropist. Born North London. Owner of Express Newspapers. Plays in a charity rock bank with Roger Daltrey.
1 memorial
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