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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Joseph Smith
Translated Pepys's diary (written in one of the versions of shorthand used at the time) in 1819 - 22.
1 memorial
Earl of Ellesmere, Francis Egerton
Politician, poet, founding trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951. Born 21 Arlington Street, Piccadilly. Died Bridgewater House, London. ...
Person, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Poetry, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Murder on the Orient Express
Detective novel by Agatha Christie, featuring Hercule Poirot.
1 memorial
The Sign of Four
The second of the Sherlock Holmes novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally called the Sign of The Four, it has a complex plot involving the East India Company, the Indian Rebellion of 1...
1 memorial
Frances (Fanny) Burney
Born King's Lynn, Norfolk, father was Dr Charles Burney. Diarist, novelist: Evelina (1778), Cecelia (1782), Camilla (1796) and playwright. Her first novel, Evelina, was a big success and she ent...
2 memorials
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National Firefighters memorial
EC4, Sermon Lane
Two figures in the sculpture are based on a photograph, “A relief crew damping down in Cannon Street, 17th April 1941” but we cannot find...
War served | WW2
2 subjects commemorated, 8 creators
2 subjects commemorated, 8 creators
Robert Raikes
Promoter of the Sunday School movement. Born and died Gloucester.
1 memorial
Russell Henderson
Musician. Born Russell Audley Ferdinand Henderson in Belmont, Trinidad. He came to Britain in 1951, and is widely recognised as one of the founding figures of the Notting Hill Carnival. His band ha...
2 memorials
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