London, United Kingdom

1043 plaques

#1: George Seferis 1900-1971 Greek Ambassador, poet and Nobel laureate lived here 1957-1962 51.5114, -0.154316
#2: Thomas Gainsborough 1727-1788 artist lived here 51.5058, -0.135976
#3: Simon Bolivar 1783-1830 liberator of Latin America lodged here in 1810 51.5162, -0.152539
#4: Sir Charles James Freake 1814-1884 builder and patron of the arts lived here 51.4955, -0.175
#5: Arthur Onslow (1691-1768) Speaker of the House of Commons from 1728 to 1761 lived in a house on this site 51.5153, -0.132345
#6: In a house on this site Florence Nightingale 1820-1910 lived and died 51.508, -0.152752
#7: Guglielmo Marconi 1874-1937 the pioneer of wireless communications lived here in 1896-1897 51.5165, -0.19433
#8: Ramsay Macdonald 1866-1937 Prime Minister lived here 1916-1925 51.5497, -0.164967
#9: Thomas de Quincy 1785-1859 wrote 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' in this house 51.5119, -0.120704
#10: Gilbert Bayes 1872-1953 sculptor lived here 1931-1953 51.5352, -0.1875
#11: Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) musical composer lived here 51.5149, -0.1576
#12: David Ben-Gurion 1886-1973 first Prime Minister of Israel lived here 51.5268, -0.18366
#13: In this house Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf lived 1915-1924 and founded the Hogarth Press in 1917 51.4607, -0.300236
#14: Joseph Whitaker 1820-1895 publisher, founder of Whitaker's Almanack lived and died here 51.6542, -0.080639
#15: Prince Talleyrand 1754-1838 French statesman and diplomatist lived here 51.5851, -0.0685
#16: Henry Labouchere 1831-1912 radical MP and journalist lived here 1881-1903 51.4421, -0.3318
#17: George Borrow 1803-1881 author lived here 51.4925, -0.1822
#18: John Burns 1858-1943 statesman lived here 51.4613, -0.159377
#19: Michael Faraday man of science, apprentice here b. 1791 d. 1867 51.5184, -0.154202
#20: Arthur Henry Ward Sax Rohmer 1883-1959 creator of Dr Fu Manchu lived here 51.4563, -0.0973
#21: Dorothea Lambert Chambers 1878-1960 lawn tennis champion lived here 1887-1907 51.5132, -0.29633
#22: Beau Brummell 1778-1840 leader of fashion lived here 51.507, -0.1484
#23: Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke 1843-1911 statesman and author lived here 51.4966, -0.1588
#24: Leonard Huxley (1860-1933), Julian Huxley (1887-1975), Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Men of Science and Letters, lived here. 51.5542, -0.188218
#25: H. G. Wells 1866-1946 writer lived and died here 51.5279, -0.1632
#26: F. E. Smith Earl of Birkenhead 1872-1930 lawyer and statesman lived here 51.497, -0.1463
#27: Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882 poet and painter was born here 51.5225, -0.1447
#28: Sardar Vallabhbhai Javerbhai Patel 1875-1950 Indian statesman lived here 51.5193, -0.200383
#29: Henry Mayers Hyndman 1842-1921 socialist leader lived and died here 51.559, -0.173515
#30: Alan Dower Blumlein 1903-1942 electronics engineer and inventor lived here 51.5254, -0.28856
#31: Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1969 novelist lived here 1934-1969 51.4971, -0.1885
#32: George Gissing 1857-1903 novelist lived here 1882-1884 51.4852, -0.167271
#33: Dame Sybil Thorndyke 1882-1976 actress lived here 1921-1932 51.4867, -0.172269
#34: Charles Manby 1804-1884 civil engineer lived here 51.515, -0.1791
#35: Sir Alfred Hitchcock 1899-1980 film director lived here 1926-1939 51.4946, -0.1903
#36: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan 1817-1898 Muslim reformer and scholar lived here 1869-1870 51.5253, -0.1178
#37: Earl Roberts (1832-1914) Field-Marshal lived here 51.5208, -0.1453
#38: Matthew Arnold 1822-1888 poet and critic lived here 51.496, -0.149051
#39: Sir Henry Dale 1875-1968 physiologist lived here 51.5576, -0.1799
#40: Stanley Baldwin Earl Baldwin of Bewdley 1867-1947 Prime Minister lived here 51.4951, -0.1555
#41: Alfred Bestall 1892-1986 illustrator of Rupert Bear lived here 1936-1966 51.3997, -0.3003
#42: William Strang 1859-1921 painter and etcher lived here 1900-1921 51.5283, -0.177357
#43: John F. Sartorius c.1775-c.1830 sporting painter lived here 1807-1812 51.4875, -0.1742
#44: Martina Bergman Osterberg 1849-1915 pioneer of Physical Education for Women lived and worked here 51.5459, -0.179922
#45: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) poet lived here 51.52, -0.158965
#46: W. P. Frith 1819-1909 painter lived and died here 51.5352, -0.18644
#47: A. W. Hofmann 1818-1892 Professor of Chemistry lived here 51.5234, -0.140026
#48: General James Wolfe 1727-1759 Victor of Quebec lived here
#49: Alastair Sim 1900-1976 actor lived here 1953-1975 51.5561, -0.181206
#50: Clive of India 1725-1774 soldier and administrator lived here 51.5093, -0.146341
#51: John Ireland 1879-1962 composer lived here 51.4827, -0.184982
#52: W. W. Jacobs 1863-1943 author lived here 51.5766, -0.203261
#53: Emily Davies 1830-1921 founder of Girton College, Cambridge lived here 51.5265, -0.175604
#54: Captain James Cook 1728-1779 circumnavigator and explorer lived in a house on this site 51.5977, -0.001041
#55: Arnold Bennett 1867-1931 novelist lived here 51.4943, -0.160789
#56: Philip Arnold Heseltine, Peter Warlock 1894-1930 composer lived here 51.4858, -0.161128
#57: Lao She 1899-1966 Chinese writer lived here 1925-1928 51.5087, -0.213179
#58: Sir George Gilbert Scott 1811-1878 architect lived here 51.5596, -0.1808
#59: Dorothy L. Sayers 1893-1957 writer of detective stories lived here 1921-1929 51.5215, -0.117194
#60: Lord John Russell 1st Earl Russell 1792-1878 twice Prime Minister lived here 51.4975, -0.154731
#61: Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 poet lived here 1960-1961 51.5466, -0.160701
#62: Sir Henry Newbolt 1862-1938 poet lived here 51.5018, -0.195769
#63: George Eliot 1819-1880 novelist died here 51.484, -0.1644
#64: Sir Arthur Eddington OM 1882-1944 mathematician and astrophysicist lived here 51.4653, 0.009641
#65: Bud Flanagan 1896-1968 comedian and leader of the 'Crazy Gang' born here 51.5202, -0.0738
#66: Sir Arthur Bliss 1891-1975 composer lived here 1929-1939 51.559, -0.170661
#67: George Bentham 1800-1884 botanist lived here 51.4897, -0.252582
#68: Sir Henry Wood 1869-1944 musician lived here 51.5422, -0.162639
#69: Aubrey House stands on the site of Kensington Wells and early 18th century spa Former residents include Sir Edward Lloyd Richard, 1st Earl Grosvenor, Lady Mary Coke, diarist, Peter and Clementia Taylor, philanthropists, William Cleverly Alexander, art lover 51.506, -0.2024
#70: Sir Alexander Fleming 1881-1955 discoverer of penicillin lived here 51.4829, -0.172443
#71: Tom Sayers 1826-1865 pugilist died here 51.5405, -0.144191
#72: Henry Hall 1898-1989 dance band leader and broadcaster lived here 1932-1959 51.559, -0.205936
#73: Ethel Gordon Fenwick 1857-1947 nursing reformer lived here 1887-1924 51.5208, -0.149648
#74: Madame D’Arblay (Fanny Burney) authoress lived here. born 1752 died 1840 51.507, -0.144007
#75: Sir Frank Dyson 1868-1939 Astronomer Royal lived here 1894-1906 51.4804, 0.00846
#76: Charles Townley 1737-1805 antiquary and collector lived here 51.5006, -0.132307
#77: John Tallis 1816-1876 Publisher of London Street Views lived here 51.4744, -0.044134
#78: The site of 17 Osnaburgh Street where the Fabian Society was founded in 1884. 51.5252, -0.143069
#79: Sigmund Freud 1856-1939 founder of Psychoanalysis lived here in 1938-1939 51.5477, -0.177445
#80: Sir Rowland Hill 1795-1879 postal reformer lived here 51.5107, -0.1898
#81: Evelyn Underhill 1875-1941 Christian philosopher and teacher lived here 1907-1939 51.5075, -0.202764
#82: Sir George Frederic Still 1868-1941 paediatrician lived here 51.5179, -0.147451
#83: George Frederick Samuel Robinson Marquess of Ripon 1827-1909 Viceroy of India lived here 51.4842, -0.160206
#84: Cato Street Conspiracy discovered here 23 February 1820 51.5183, -0.165642
#85: Richard Bright 1789-1858 physician lived here 51.5109, -0.140173
#86: Richard Jefferies 1848-1887 naturalist and writer lived here 51.448, 0.063065
#87: Lord Haldane 1856-1928 statesman, lawyer and philosopher lived here 51.5005, -0.132372
#88: Thomas Stothard 1755-1834 painter and illustrator lived here 51.5177, -0.135886
#89: W. F. R. Stanley 1829-1909 inventor, manufacturer and philanthropist, founded and designed these halls and technical school 51.4001, -0.075454
#90: Albert Mansbridge 1876-1952 founder of the Workers' Educational Association lived here 51.5544, 0.0837
#91: Sir Leslie Stephen 1832-1904 scholar and writer lived here 51.4998, -0.181234
#92: Maharajah Duleep Singh 1838-1893 last ruler of Lahore lived here 1881-1886 51.5059, -0.20738
#93: Lord Joseph Lister 1827-1912 surgeon lived here 51.6046, -0.181074
#94: Béla Bartók 1881-1945 Hungarian composer stayed here when performing in London 51.4925, -0.172213
#95: Emile Zola 1840-1902 French novelist lived here 1898-1899 51.4149, -0.08304
#96: William Wilberforce 1759-1833 opponent of slavery died here 51.4962, -0.157167
#97: Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 poet lived here in 1880 and 1881 51.5158, -0.158771
#98: Richard Tauber 1891-1948 lyric tenor lived here in flat 297 1947-1948 51.5155, -0.164844
#99: Alexander Pope 1688-1744 poet lived in this row Mawson's Buildings 1716-1719 51.4881, -0.249482
#100: Sir Edward Elgar 1857-1934 composer lived here 1890-1891 51.4942, -0.205733
#101: Heinrich Heine German poet and essayist (1799-1856) lived here 1827 51.5072, -0.124685
#102: Douglas Macmillan 1884-1969 founder of Macmillan Cancer Relief lived here 51.4875, -0.139092
#103: E. F. Benson 1867-1940 writer lived here 51.4983, -0.169232
#104: Edward Ardizzone 1900-1979 artist and illustrator lived here 1920-1972 51.5267, -0.193055
#105: Dame Edith Sitwell 1887-1964 poet lived here in Flat 42 51.5554, -0.175444
#106: Edward Gibbon 1737-1792 historian lived in a house on this site 1773-1783 51.5171, -0.150032
#107: William Wilkie Collins 1824-1889 novelist lived here 51.5188, -0.158293
#108: Hablot Knight Browne alias 'Phiz' 1815-1882 illustrator of Dickens's novels lived here 1874-1880 51.5205, -0.211829
#109: James Smithson 1764-1829 scientist, founder of the Smithsonian Institution lived here 51.5171, -0.150167
#110: Walter De La Mare 1873-1956 poet lived here 1940-1956 51.4515, -0.3178
#111: Sir Michael Balcon 1896-1977 film producer worked here 1938-1956 51.5086, -0.305675
#112: Sir Jack Hobbs 1882-1963 cricketer lived here 51.4531, -0.145403
#113: Joseph Aloysius Hansom 1803-1882 architect, founder editor of 'The Builder' and inventor of the Hansom Cab lived here 51.4908, -0.1733
#114: Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837-1909 poet and his friend Theodore Watts-Dunton 1832-1914 poet-novelist-critic lived and died here 51.4602, -0.217354
#115: Little Tich (Harry Relph) 1867-1928 music hall comedian lived and died here 51.5786, -0.216436
#116: Sir Alan Herbert (A.PH) 1890-1971 author, humourist and Reformist M.P. lived and died here 51.4993, -0.238609
#117: Francisco De Miranda 1750-1816 Precursor of Latin American Independence lived here 1802-1810 51.4898, -0.242865
#118: William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) statesman lived here 51.5065, -0.131236
#119: Will Hay 1888-1949 comic actor and astronomer lived here 1927-1934 51.4164, -0.116817
#120: Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe O.M. 1859-1935 lived here 51.492, -0.161427
#121: Sir Charles Barry 1795-1860 architect lived and died here
#122: Richard Cobden 1804-1865 died here 51.5084, -0.130785
#123: Edgar Wallace 1875-1932 writer lived here 51.464, -0.026782
#124: Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 preacher lived here 51.4496, -0.160176
#125: Sir John Simon 1816-1904 pioneer of public health lived here 51.501, -0.190418
#126: Sir Malcolm Sargent 1895-1967 conductor lived and died in a flat in this building 51.5012, -0.176783
#127: In these studios lived and worked the artists: Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), Charles Shannon (1863-1937), Glyn Philpot (1863-1937), Vivian Forbes (1891-1937), James Pryde (1866-1941), F. Cayley Robinson (1862-1927) 51.5078, -0.205779
#128: Edmond Malone 1741-1812 Shakespearian scholar lived here 1779-1812 51.5188, -0.142516
#129: INNER LONDON EDUCATION AUTHORITY, The home of Inner London's Education Service from 1922; ILEA succeeding the London School Board (1870-1904) and the LCC (1904-1965). 51.5008, -0.119305
#130: Admiral of the fleet Fisher, Lord, OM (1841-1920), lived here as first Sea Lord 1904-1910. 51.5006, -0.132459
#131: Tamara Karsavina 1885-1978 ballerina lived here 51.5574, -0.182096
#132: Sir John Betjeman 1906-1984 poet lived here 1908-1917 51.5648, -0.152991
#133: Thomas Henry Wyatt 1807-1880 architect lived and died here 51.5184, -0.125452
#134: Baron Friedrich Von Hügel 1852-1925 theologian lived here 1882-1903 51.5605, -0.17758
#135: Philip Wilson Steer 1860-1942 painter lived and died here 51.4817, -0.175984
#136: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912 composer of the 'Song of Hiawatha' lived here 51.3912, -0.089752
#137: Anna Maria Garthwaite 1690-1763 designer of Spitalfields Silks lived and worked here 51.5197, -0.073187
#138: Sir Winston Churchill KG 1874-1965 Prime Minister lived and died here 51.5, -0.181446
#139: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 1836-1917 the first woman to qualify as a Doctor in Britain lived here 51.5154, -0.160369
#140: Roger Fenton 1819-1869 photographer lived here 51.5379, -0.15486
#141: James Glaisher 1809-1903 astronomer, meteorologist and pioneer of weather forecasting lived here 51.4718, -0.008159
#142: Sydney Monckton Copeman 1862-1947 immunologist and developer of smallpox vaccine lived here 51.4867, -0.187586
#143: Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723 architect lived here 51.4059, -0.343083
#144: Sir Frank Brangwyn 1867-1956 artist lived here 51.49, -0.2256
#145: Ernest Bevin 1881-1951 Trade Union Leader and statesman lived here in Flat No. 8 1931-1951 51.5137, -0.148
#146: William Richard Lethaby 1857-1931 architect lived here 1880-1891 51.5247, -0.11511
#147: Natsume Soseki 1867-1916 Japanese novelist lived here 1901-1902 51.4657, -0.147451
#148: Archibald Philip Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery 1847-1929 Prime Minister and first Chairman of the London County Council was born here 51.5077, -0.1478
#149: Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (1827-1900), anthropologist and archaeologist, lived here. 51.4978, -0.147758
#150: Cardinal Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892), lived here. 51.4941, -0.1397
#151: Lord Lugard (1858-1945), Colonial Administrator, lived here 1912-1919. 51.4994, -0.168376
#152: Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820, President of the Royal Society, Robert Brown 1773-1858 and, David Don 1800-1841 botanists, lived in a house on this site, The Linnean Society met here 1821-1857 51.5153, -0.132345
#153: Leigh Hunt 1784-1859 essayist & poet lived here. 51.4846, -0.169967
#154: Willy Clarkson (1861-1934), Theatrical Wigmaker, lived and died here. 51.5118, -0.13249
#155: Melanie Klein (1882-1960), Psychoanalyst and pioneer of child analysis, lived here. 51.5374, -0.1813
#156: Albert Chevalier (1861-1923), music hall comedian, was born here. 51.5069, -0.215068
#157: J. L. Hammond and Barbara Hammond social historians lived here 1906-1913 51.562, -0.1767
#158: Emma Cons (1837-1912), philanthropist and founder of the Old Vic, lived here. 51.5205, -0.163791
#159: Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1890-1976), archaeologist, lived here. 51.5092, -0.130493
#160: Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905), architect, lived here. 51.5195, -0.146337
#161: Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), critic and biographer, lived here. 51.5246, -0.131138
#162: Lord Fitzroy Somerset Raglan, 1st Baron 1788-1855 Commander during the Crimean War lived here 51.5065, -0.1516
#163: Solomon T. Plaatje (1876-1932), black South African writer and campaigner for African rights lived here 51.5788, -0.004162
#164: In a house formerly standing on this site lived Samuel Pepys 1633-1703 diarist and Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford 1661-1724 statesman and in this house lived William Etty 1787-1849 painter and Clarkson Stanfield 1793-1867 painter 51.5086, -0.123504
#165: John Constable (1776-1837), painter, lived here. 51.5589, -0.173404
#166: Charles Laughton 1899-1962 Actor lived here 1928-1931 51.5182, -0.133869
#167: Arthur Henderson (1863-1935), statesman, lived here. 51.4549, -0.133274
#168: Sir Hamo Thornycroft (1850-1925), sculptor, lived here. 51.499, -0.204906
#169: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966), Indian patriot and philosopher, lived here. 51.5701, -0.141488
#170: Mustapha Pasha Reschid (1800-1858), Turkish statesman and reformer, lived here as an ambassador in 1839. 51.5168, -0.160206
#171: King Haakon VII (1872-1957), led the Norwegian government-in-exile here 1940-1945 51.5035, -0.19
#172: SCOTLAND YARD, Site of. first Headquarters of the Metropolitan Police 1829-1890. 51.5058, -0.126145
#173: Major-General William Roy (1726-1790), founder of the Ordnance Survey, lived here. 51.5147, -0.140827
#174: Dr Joseph Rogers (1821-1889), health care reformer, lived here. 51.5136, -0.132501
#175: Sir Arthur Pinero (1855-1934), Playwright, lived here 1909-1934. 51.5215, -0.148124
#176: Louis Macneice (1907-1963), poet, lived here 1947-1952. 51.5462, -0.0934
#177: Sir Ernst Chain (1906-1979), biochemist and developer of penicillin, lived here 51.4273, -0.230906
#178: Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976), detective novelist and playwright, lived here 1934-1941 51.5054, -0.195926
#179: C. F. A. Voysey (1857-1941), architect and designer, lived here. 51.5372, -0.179353
#180: Edward Thomas (1878-1917), essayist and poet, lived here. 51.4598, -0.163301
#181: Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858-1947), department store magnate lived here 1921-1929 51.5083, -0.144915
#182: Paul Robeson (1898-1976), singer and actor lived here 1929-1930 51.5608, -0.183052
#183: Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), statesman, born here 1804. 51.5212, -0.114375
#184: George Dance the Younger 1741-1825 architect lived and died here 51.5227, -0.132841
#185: Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904), poet and journalist, lived and died here. 51.4907, -0.18863
#186: Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), pioneer of Women's Suffrage, lived and died here. 51.5198, -0.129756
#187: Fred Knee (1868-1914), London Labour Party pioneer and Housing reformer, lived here. 51.4642, -0.157384
#188: J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) novelist, playwright and essayist lived here 51.5701, -0.151559
#189: George Orwell (1903-1950), novelist and political essayist, lived here. 51.5463, -0.135934
#190: Luke Howard 1772-1864 namer of clouds lived and died here 51.5947, -0.070515
#191: John McDouall Stuart 1815-1866 first explorer to cross Australia lived and died here 51.5073, -0.201568
#192: W. H. Hudson (William Henry) with view of 'The House where I was born in the South American Pampas ….' Hudsons's friends' Society of Quilmes, near Buenos Aires, where the great writer was born on August 4th 1841, and where he spent his youth, has placed t 51.5197, -0.203147
#193: Marcus Garvey 1887-1940 pan-Africanist leader lived and died here 51.4905, -0.209623
#194: Sir John Maitland Salmond (1881-1968), Marshal of the Royal Air Force, RAF Commander, lived here 1928-1936 51.529, -0.1454
#195: James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) historian and man of letters lived here 51.4904, -0.176752
#196: Sir Frederick Handley Page 1885-1962 aircraft designer and manufacturer lived here in Flat 3 51.512, -0.152247
#197: Sir Patrick Manson 1844-1922 father of modern tropical medicine lived here 51.5158, -0.148481
#198: Radclyffe Hall 1880-1943 novelist and poet lived here 1924-1929 51.5028, -0.194219
#199: Canon Samuel Barnett 1844-1913 social reformer lived here 51.5695, -0.175
#200: Nancy Astor 1879-1964 first woman to sit in Parliament lived here 51.5078, -0.135132
#201: John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) physican lived here 51.5166, -0.1521
#202: Edward Wood 1st Earl of Halifax 1881-1959 statesman, Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary lived here 51.4957, -0.1531
#203: James Abbott Mcneil Whistler painter and etcher (1834-1903) lived here 51.4819, -0.1742
#204: Sir Robert Walpole 1676-1745 Prime Minister and his son Horace Walpole 1717-1797 connoisseur and man of letters lived here 51.5074, -0.1413
#205: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860 philosopher lived and studied here in 1803 51.4257, -0.2199
#206: Andrew Bonar Law 1858-1923 Prime Minister lived here 51.4901, -0.176387
#207: William Hesketh Lever 1st Viscount Leverhulme 1851-1925 soap-maker and philanthropist lived and died here 51.5649, -0.1806
#208: Sir W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) dramatist lived here 51.4929, -0.184879
#209: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924 novelist lived here 51.494, -0.141387
#210: Sir Alan Cobham 1894-1973 aviator was born here 51.4722, -0.076252
#211: Benjamin Britten O.M. 1913-1976 composer lived here 1931-1933 51.4947, -0.192307
#212: John Ruskin 1819-1900 man of letters lived in a house on this site 51.4572, -0.096
#213: Friedrich Engels 1820-1895 political philosopher lived here 1870-1894 51.5405, -0.157535
#214: Frank Bridge 1879-1941 composer and musician lived here 51.5064, -0.194813
#215: Walter Bagehot 1826-1877 writer, banker and economist lived here 51.4988, -0.1515
#216: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 lived here 51.5272, -0.118
#217: Paul Nash 1889-1946 artist lived in Flat 176 1914-1936 51.5283, -0.12609
#218: Dame Myra Hess 1890-1965 pianist lived here 51.5765, -0.182445
#219: Joseph Michael Gandy 1771-1843 architectural visionary lived here 1833-1838 51.4842, -0.273695
#220: Dame Edith Evans 1888-1976 actress lived here 51.4941, -0.1493
#221: John William Waterhouse 1849-1917 painter lived here 1900-1917 51.5296, -0.178873
#222: Sir Ronald Ross 1857-1932 Nobel laureate and discoverer of the mosquito transmission of malaria lived here 51.5163, -0.144941
#223: Kwame Nkrumah 1909-1972 first President of Ghana lived here 1945-1947 51.5559, -0.141568
#224: William Daniell 1769-1837 artist and engraver of Indian scenes lived and died here 51.5423, -0.136459
#225: H. M. Bateman 1887-1970 cartoonist lived here 1910-1914 51.4511, -0.154559
#226: Randolph Caldecott 1846-1886 artist and book illustrator lived here 51.5181, -0.126476
#227: Constant Lambert 1905-1951 composer lived here 1947-1951 51.5343, -0.146431
#228: Sir Edwin Saunders 1814-1901 dentist to Queen Victoria lived and died here 51.4465, -0.222233
#229: Sir Terence Rattigan 1911-1977 playwright was born here 51.4967, -0.188348
#230: Karl Pearson 1857-1936 pioneer statistician lived here 51.5594, -0.174551
#231: George Du Maurier lived here 1874 to 1895 51.5261, -0.138837
#232: Norman Douglas 1868-1952 writer lived here 51.4791, -0.165283
#233: Thomas Arne 1710-1778 composer lived here 51.5115, -0.124577
#234: William Huskisson 1770-1830 statesman lived here 51.5055, -0.14014
#235: John Flaxman sculptor lived and died here B.1755, D.1826. 51.5229, -0.142337
#236: Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale 1874-1961 a founder of the Family Planning Association opened his first birth control clinic here in 1921 51.4895, -0.088975
#237: Sir George Cayley 1773-1857 scientist and pioneer of aviation lived here 51.5055, -0.149178
#238: Edward Lear 1812-1888 artist and writer lived here 51.5143, -0.158808
#239: A. E. Housman 1859-1936 poet and scholar wrote “A Shropshire Lad” while living here 51.5723, -0.149902
#240: Sir Giles Gilbert Scott 1880-1960 architect designed this house and lived here 1926-1960 51.513, -0.168991
#241: Sir Richard Arkwright 1732-1792 industrialist and inventor lived here 51.5097, -0.122221
#242: Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849-1924 writer lived here 51.5216, -0.1457
#243: William Holman-Hunt O.M. (1827-1910) painter lived and died here 51.4992, -0.202063
#244: Major Walter Clopton Wingfield 1833-1912 father of lawn tennis lived here 51.4889, -0.1349
#245: Sir Frederick Treves 1853-1923 surgeon lived here 1886-1907 51.5172, -0.147814
#246: Ettore Schmitz alias 'Italo Svevo' 1861-1928 writer lived here 1903-1913 51.4855, 0.032971
#247: Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898 artist lived here 1865-1867 51.5008, -0.1904
#248: Sir Alexander Korda 1893-1956 film producer worked here 1932-1936 51.5118, -0.146956
#249: This tablet is in memory of Sir Hugh Willoughby, Stephen Borough, William Borough, Sir Martin Frobisher and other navigators who in the latter half of the sixteenth century set sail from this reach of the River Thames near Ratcliff Cross to explore the northern seas
#250: Isaac Rosenberg 1890-1918 poet and painter lived in the East End and studied here 51.516, -0.070016
#251: Henry Pelham (c.1695-1754) Prime Minister lived here 51.5075, -0.1412
#252: Captain Frederick Marryat 1792-1848 novelist lived here 51.5174, -0.152627
#253: George Devine 1910-1966 actor, artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre 1956-1965 lived here 51.4906, -0.2304
#254: Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton 1786-1845 anti-slavery campaigner lived and worked here 51.5212, -0.07184
#255: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 poet and philosopher lived here 51.4954, -0.2073
#256: Samuel L. Clemens, 'Mark Twain' 1835-1910 American writer lived here in 1896-7 51.4871, -0.162673
#257: Joseph Toynbee 1815-1866 aural surgeon and his son Arnold Toynbee 1852-1883 social philosopher lived here 1854-1866 51.4339, -0.22433
#258: Here lived three Prime Ministers: William Pitt Earl of Chatham 1708-1778 Edward Geoffrey Stanley Earl of Derby 1799-1869 William Ewart Gladstone 1809-1898 51.5076, -0.135976
#259: Sir Harold Gillies 1882-1960 pioneer plastic surgeon lived here 51.5543, -0.1826
#260: Philip Stanhope 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1774) statesman and author lived here 51.4754, -0.0034
#261: Sir Henry Irving 1838-1905 actor lived here 1872-1899 51.5455, -0.14524
#262: This was the home and museum of Dr William Hunter anatomist 1718-1783 51.5117, -0.137205
#263: Francis Bret Harte 1836-1902 American writer lived and died here 51.5113, -0.1827
#264: E. H. Shepard 1879-1976 painter and illustrator lived here 51.5271, -0.1635
#265: Siegfried Sassoon 1886-1967 writer lived here 1925-1932 51.5068, -0.201996
#266: Sir Ralph Richardson 1902-1983 actor lived here 1944-1968 51.5726, -0.1621
#267: Count Edward Raczyñski 1891-1993 Polish statesman lived here 1967-1993 51.4963, -0.163579
#268: Joseph Nollekens 1737-1823 sculptor lived and died in a house on this site 51.5179, -0.139866
#269: Lord Randolph Churchill 1849-1895 statesman lived here 1883-1892 51.5135, -0.161437
#270: The Horniman Museum and Gardens were given to the people of London in 1901 by Frederick John Horniman, who lived near this site. 51.4405, -0.060919
#271: Sir George Alexander 1858-1918 actor manager lived here 51.4968, -0.162487
#272: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 poet and philosopher lived in a house on this site 1812-1813 51.5171, -0.136851
#273: 'Father' Henry Willis 1821-1901 organ builder lived here 51.5448, -0.138947
#274: Sir Stanley Unwin 1884-1968 publisher was born here 51.453, 0.009624
#275: Stevie Smith 1902-1971 poet lived here, 1906-1971 51.6249, -0.104137
#276: Sir Harry Ricardo 1885-1974 mechanical engineer was born here 51.5191, -0.130371
#277: Lord John Reith 1889-1971 first Director-General of the BBC lived here 1924-1930 51.4973, -0.127714
#278: In this house formerly a royal residence lived Lord Henry John Temple Palmerston (1784-1865) Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary 51.5058, -0.14485
#279: G. A. Henty 1832-1902 author lived here 51.4633, -0.162075
#280: Sri Aurobindo 1872-1950 Indian spiritual leader lived here 1884-1887 51.5039, -0.231787
#281: John Hunter 1728-1793 surgeon lived here 51.5118, -0.137884
#282: Frank Pick 1878-1941 pioneer of good design for London Transport lived here 51.5774, -0.182078
#283: Sir Flinders Petrie 1853-1942 Egyptologist lived here 51.56, -0.176294
#284: John Passmore Edwards 1823-1911 journalist, editor and builder of free public libraries lived here 51.5517, -0.177961
#285: William Richard Lethaby 1857-1931 architect and first principal of this school in 1896 to 1911 51.5195, -0.121737
#286: Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 poet and story writer lived here 1889-1891 51.5081, -0.123676
#287: Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 wit and dramatist lived here 51.4858, -0.160902
#289: Andreas Kalvos 1792-1869 Greek poet and patriot lived here 51.527, -0.184443
#290: John Horniman (1803-1893), And Frederick John Horniman (1835-1906), tea merchants, collectors and public benefactors, lived here.
#291: George Basevi 1794-1845 architect lived here 51.5112, -0.14069
#293: Lord Leslie Hore-Belisha 1893-1957 statesman lived here 51.4992, -0.1415
#294: In a house on this site lived from 1854-1875 Sir Charles Lyell 1797-1875 geologist,and from 1876-1882 W.E. Gladstone 1809-1898 statesman 51.5197, -0.1473
#295: Walter Sickert 1860-1942 painter and etcher lived and worked here 51.5326, -0.139909
#296: Sir Henry Cole 1808-1882 campaigner and educator, first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum lived here 51.4956, -0.171312
#297: From this house in 1848 Frederic Chopin 1810-1849 went to the Guildhall to give his last public performance. 51.5059, -0.139132
#298: William Ewart 1798-1869 reformer lived here 51.4979, -0.1514
#299: Benjamin Robert Haydon 1786-1846 painter and John Charles Felix Rossi 1762-1839 sculptor lived here 51.5242, -0.167148
#300: Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816 dramatist and statesman lived here 1795-1802 51.5058, -0.147916
#301: Ira Aldridge 1807-1867 Shakespearian actor 'The African Roscius' lived here 51.416, -0.072355
#302: Ezra Pound 1885-1972 poet lived here 1909-1914 51.5026, -0.192904
#303: Admiral Robert Fitzroy 1805-1865 hydrographer and meteorologist lived here 51.4917, -0.173936
#304: Viscount Cecil, of Chelwood 1864-1958 creator of the League of Nations lived here 51.4936, -0.153019
#305: In this house lived in 1851 Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), poet and painter, and from 1856-1859 William Morris (1834-1896), poet and artist, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), painter. 51.5193, -0.117816
#306: Percy Lane Oliver 1878-1944 founder of the first voluntary blood donor service lived and worked here 51.4543, -0.060983
#307: John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946 economist lived here 1916-1946 51.5246, -0.131138
#308: Henry Fuseli 1741-1825 artist lived here 1788-1803 51.5199, -0.139254
#309: Hugh Price Hughes 1847-1902 Methodist preacher lived and died here 51.5255, -0.131953
#310: Quintin Hogg 1845-1903 founder of the Polytechnic Regent Street lived here 1885-1898 51.5163, -0.144941
#312: Sir Henry Rider Haggard 1856-1925 novelist lived here 1885-1888 51.4917, -0.210759
#313: William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 Irish poet and dramatist lived here 51.5402, -0.154454
#314: Lokamanya Tilak 1856-1920 Indian patriot and philosopher lived here 1918-1919 51.5218, -0.179506
#315: W. H. Smith 1825-1891 bookseller and statesman lived here 51.5131, -0.167831
#316: Thomas Gage 1721-1787 Commander of British Forces in North America lived here 51.5205, -0.1452
#317: John Logie Baird 1888-1946 television pioneer lived here 51.433, -0.072979
#318: Site of the business premises of Thomas Earnshaw 1749-1829 noted watch and chronometer maker 51.5176, -0.12
#319: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 stayed here in 1931 51.5265, -0.014527
#320: Thomas Hosmer Shepherd 1793-1864 artist who portrayed London lived here 51.5353, -0.108542
#321: Lilian Baylis 1874-1937 manager of the Old Vic and Sadlers Wells Theatres lived and died here 51.4734, -0.117549
#322: Sir Stewart Duke-Elder 1898-1978 ophthalmologist lived and worked here 1934-1976 51.5192, -0.147078
#323: George Mary Ann Cross Eliot 1819-1880 novelist lived here 51.452, -0.2012
#324: Graham Hill 1929-1975 World Champion Racing Driver lived here 1960-1972 51.6106, -0.238293
#325: David Garrick 1717-1779 actor lived here 51.4125, -0.358856
#326: Michael Ventris 1922-1956 architect and decipherer of Linear B script lived here 51.5678, -0.181125
#327: Sir James Clark Ross 1800-1862 polar explorer lived here 51.4678, 0.000703
#328: Dame Lucie Rie 1902-1995 potter lived and worked here from 1939 until her death 51.5133, -0.166321
#329: Hubert Parry 1848-1918 musician lived here 51.5003, -0.1898
#330: Zachary Macaulay 1768-1838 philanthropist and his son Thomas Babington Macaulay afterwards Lord Macaulay 1800-1859 historian and man of letters lived here 51.4631, -0.141587
#331: Richard Dadd 1817-1886 painter lived here 51.5088, -0.130827
#333: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree 1853-1917 actor-manager lived here 51.4916, -0.182442
#334: Alfred Stevens 1817-1875 artist lived here 51.5452, -0.157634
#335: Eric Ravilious 1903-1942 artist lived here 1931-1935 51.4904, -0.237708
#336: Arthur Rackham 1867-1939 illustrator lived here 51.546, -0.162072
#337: George Frideric Handel 1685-1759 composer lived in this house from 1723 and died here 51.5131, -0.145955
#338: Sir Luke Fildes 1844-1927 artist lived here 1878-1927 51.4993, -0.20196
#339: John Innes 1829-1904 founder of the John Innes Horticultural Institute lived here 51.4094, -0.208285
#340: Chaim Weizmann 1874-1952 scientist and statesman, First President of the State of Israel lived here 51.5003, -0.208006
#341: Ford Madox Ford 1873-1939 novelist and critic lived here 51.5042, -0.197349
#342: Louis Kossuth 1802-1894 Hungarian patriot stayed here 51.5121, -0.201468
#343: Colen Campbell 1676-1729 architect and author of Vitruvius Britannicus lived and died here 51.5125, -0.149179
#344: Garnet Wolseley 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913) Field-Marshal lived here 51.475, -0.0039
#345: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton 1874-1922 Antarctic explorer lived here 51.4278, -0.058764
#346: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840-1922 diplomat, poet and traveller, founder of Crabbet Park Arabian Stud lived here 51.4998, -0.140382
#347: Dame Clara Butt 1873-1936 singer lived here 1901-1929 51.5409, -0.169815
#348: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) lived here 51.5076, -0.125083
#349: Sir Jeffry Wyatville 1766-1840 architect lived and died here 51.513, -0.146779
#350: Violette Szabo GC 1921-1945 secret agent lived here. She gave her life for the French Resistance. 51.4707, -0.119326
#351: Eleanor Rathbone 1872-1946 pioneer of family allowances lived here 51.4963, -0.128402
#352: Spencer Perceval (1762-1812) Prime Minister lived here 51.5155, -0.115925
#353: Enid Blyton 1897-1968 children's writer lived here 1920-1924 51.3734, -0.304592
#354: Josephine Butler 1828-1906 champion of women's rights lived here 1890-1893 51.4273, -0.230906
#355: Prebendary Wilson Carlile 1847-1942 founder of the Church Army lived here 51.5054, -0.195926
#356: Sir Francis Galton 1822-1911 explorer, statistician and founder of eugenics lived here for fifty years 51.4993, -0.16805
#357: John Loughborough Pearson 1817-1897 and later Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens 1869-1944 architects lived and died here 51.5193, -0.146102
#358: Jack Beresford 1899-1977 Olympic rowing champion lived here 1903-1940 51.4825, -0.271976
#359: Sir Charles Vyner Brooke 1874-1963 last Rajah of Sarawak lived here 51.5137, -0.166828
#360: Albert Henry Stanley Lord Ashfield 1874-1948 first Chairman of London Transport lived here 51.5087, -0.150483
#361: Sir Henry Wellcome 1853-1936 pharmacist, founder of the Wellcome Trust and Foundation lived here 51.5343, -0.147403
#362: Eugen Sandow 1867-1925 body-builder and promoter of physical culture lived and died here 51.5054, -0.211283
#363: Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964 first Prime Minister of India lived here in 1910 and 1912 51.5141, -0.208262
#364: Princess Seraphine Astafieva 1876-1934 ballet dancer lived and taught here 51.4889, -0.165246
#365: Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874-1936 poet, novelist and critic lived here 51.4969, -0.203858
#366: Sir Thomas Sopwith 1888-1989 aviator and aircraft manufacturer lived here 1934-1940 51.5125, -0.156024
#367: William Petty, Earl of Shelburne, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne 1737-1805 Prime Minister, Supporter of American Independence lived here 51.5082, -0.1449
#368: Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 poet lived in a house on this site 1838-1846 51.52, -0.149109
#369: Frank Dobson 1886-1963 sculptor lived here 51.4874, -0.180881
#370: James Boswell (1740-1795) biographer lived and died in a house on this site 51.5197, -0.142526
#371: Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923 writer and her husband John Middleton Murry 1889-1957 critic lived here 51.5608, -0.175
#372: William Bligh 1754-1817 Commander of the "Bounty" lived here 51.4966, -0.1106
#373: Ebenezer Howard 1850-1928 pioneer of the Garden City Movement lived here 51.5731, -0.079333
#374: Tommy Handley 1892-1949 radio comedian lived here 51.5136, -0.179
#375: Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 artist lived here 1851-1861 51.5, -0.1869
#376: Chelsea China was manufactured in a house at the north end of Lawrence Street 1745-1784. Tobias Smollett 1721-1771 novelist also lived in part of the house from 1750 to 1762 51.4842, -0.1709
#377: Annie Besant 1847-1933 social reformer lived here in 1874 51.4241, -0.0812
#378: Antonio Canal called 'Canaletto' (1697-1768) Venetian painter lived here 51.5123, -0.1375
#379: Jomo Kenyatta (c.1894-1978) first President of the Republic of Kenya lived here 1933-1937 51.4898, -0.1432
#380: Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865 novelist born here 51.482, -0.1738
#381: Alan Turing 1912-1954 code-breaker and pioneer of computer science was born here 51.5242, -0.1842
#382: In this house John Henry Newman 1801-1890 later Cardinal Newman spent some of his early years 51.4389, -0.3133
#383: Sir David Low 1891-1963 cartoonist lived here at No. 33 51.4986, -0.1999
#384: C. S. Forester 1899-1966 novelist lived here 51.4458, -0.065317
#385: Sir Joseph William Bazalgette 1819-1891 civil engineer lived here 51.5271, -0.1773
#386: Sir Harry Vane 1612-1662 statesman lived here. Born 1612, beheaded 1662. 51.5552, -0.1742
#387: Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), author and artist, lived here 1960-1968. 51.4905, -0.1828
#388: Henry Hallam (1777-1859), historian, lived here 51.5183, -0.148337
#389: Lord Leighton (1830-1896), painter, lived and died here. 51.4978, -0.205061
#390: Arthur Waley (1889-1966), poet, translator and Orientalist, lived and died here. 51.5731, -0.148594
#391: Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806), furniture designer, lived here. 51.5136, -0.133922
#392: George Bernard Shaw lived in this house from 1887-1898 'from the coffers of his genius he enriched the world' 51.5226, -0.140452
#393: Mary Hughes (1860-1941), Friend of all in need, lived and worked here 1926-1941. 51.5217, -0.064405
#394: John Galsworthy (1867-1933), novelist and Playwright, lived here 1918-1933. 51.5596, -0.180174
#395: Ian Fleming 1908-1964 creator of James Bond lived here 51.4959, -0.147425
#396: Bram Stoker (1847-1912), author of 'Dracula', lived here. 51.4886, -0.161175
#397: Cecil Sharp (1859-1924), collector of English folk songs and dances, lived here. 51.5472, -0.177681
#398: Sir Edwin Chadwick (1801-1890), Public Health reformer, lived here 51.4554, -0.298065
#399: William Butterfield (1814-1900), architect, lived here. 51.518, -0.130269
#400: Dr Robert Willan (1757-1812), Dermatologist, lived here. 51.5187, -0.123221
#401: Walter Pater (1839-1894), aesthete and writer, lived and worked here 1885-1893 51.4979, -0.201139
#402: Charles James Fox 1749-1806 statesman lived here 51.5063, -0.144531
#403: Dr. Margery Blackie 1898-1981 homoeopathic physician lived and worked here 1929-1980 51.4945, -0.173277
#404: Susan Lawrence (1871-1947), social reformer, lived here. 51.5149, -0.178231
#405: Alexander Herzen 1812-1870 Russian political thinker lived here 1860-1863 51.518, -0.183382
#406: William Henry Barlow 1812-1902 engineer lived and died here 51.4795, 0.02727
#407: John Heartfield (1891-1968), master of photomontage, lived here 1938-1943 51.5556, -0.170408
#408: Madame Marie Tussaud 1761-1850 artist in Wax lived here 1838-1839 51.5324, -0.171941
#409: Virginia Stephen (Virginia Woolf) (1882-1941), novelist and critic, lived here 1907-1911. 51.5225, -0.14
#410: Joseph Chamberlain 1836-1914 statesman lived here 51.5491, -0.101589
#411: Lord Kelvin 1824-1907 physicist and inventor lived here 51.4984, -0.1508
#412: Vivien Leigh 1913-1967 actress lived here 51.4945, -0.152892
#413: Neville Chamberlain 1869-1940 Prime Minister lived here 1923-1935 51.4954, -0.151383
#414: Edward Irving (1792-1834), founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church, lived here. 51.5312, -0.111089
#415: Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956), artist and writer, born here. 51.5078, -0.19336
#416: Sir James M. Barrie 1860-1937 novelist and dramatist lived here 51.5106, -0.1829
#417: Benjamin Waugh (1839-1908), founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, lived here. 51.4777, -0.005471
#418: Lincoln Stanhope Wainwright (1847-1929), Vicar of St Peter's, London Docks, lived here 1884-1929. 51.5061, -0.058644
#419: Sir Robert Smirke (1781-1867), architect, lived here. 51.5203, -0.136658
#420: The site of this building forms part of what was once the precinct of the Priory of St John the Baptist, Holywell. Within a few yards stood from 1577 to 1598 the first London building specially devoted to the performance of plays and known as 'The Theatre 51.5246, -0.080312
#421: Arthur Lucan (Arthur Towle) (1887-1954), Entertainer and creator of Old Mother Riley, lived here. 51.5659, -0.267931
#422: Lillie Langtry (1852-1929), actress, lived here. 51.4971, -0.159495
#423: Robert Travers Herford (1860-1950), Unitarian Minister, scholar, and interpreter of Judaism, lived and worked here. 51.5249, -0.130752
#424: Edmund Burke, author and statesman, lived here b.1729, d.1797 51.5117, -0.131025
#425: Washington Irving (1783-1859), American writer, lived here. 51.5146, -0.140491
#426: Charles Dickens (1812-1870), novelist, lived here. 51.5236, -0.116391
#427: Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885-1934), sculptor, lived and died here. 51.474, -0.163401
#428: Christopher Whitworth Whall (1849-1924), stained glass artist, lived here. 51.4946, -0.236614
#429: Field Marshal Viscount Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby 1861-1936 lived here 1928-1936 51.4923, -0.18357
#430: John Beard (c.1717-1791), singer and William Ewart (1798-1869), promoter of public libraries, lived here. 51.4145, -0.370399
#431: Mary Shelley (1797-1851), author of Frankenstein lived here, 1846-1851 51.4951, -0.150246
#432: Ram Mohun Roy (1772-1833), Indian scholar and reformer, lived here. 51.5189, -0.129057
#434: Sir Robert Peel (1750-1830), manufacturer and reformer, and his son, Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), Prime Minister, founder of the Metropolitan Police, lived here. 51.5102, -0.1546
#435: Stephene Mallarme 1842-1898 poet stayed here in 1863 51.4976, -0.168472
#436: Sir Gerald Kelly 1879-1972 portrait painter lived here 1916-1972 51.5208, -0.159213
#437: Harold Abrahams (1899-1978), Olympic athlete, lived here 51.566, -0.196745
#438: Sir Arnold Bax (1883-1953), composer, was born here. 51.4318, -0.1265
#439: Robert Gascoyne Cecil Third Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903) prime minister lived here. 51.523, -0.14083
#440: Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer 1841-1917 colonial administrator lived and died here 51.5198, -0.14897
#441: Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), pioneer in the scientific study of sex, lived here. 51.4644, -0.113347
#442: Sir Edward Henry (1850-1931), Metropolitan Police Commissioner 1903-1918 and pioneer of Fingerprint Identification lived here 1903-1920. 51.5056, -0.195483
#443: Sir Thomas Beecham, CH (1879-1961), conductor and impresario, lived here. 51.5327, -0.176505
#444: In this house, John Logie Baird (1888-1946), first demonstrated television 51.5145, -0.132377
#445: Guy Gibson V.C. 1918-1944 pilot, leader of the Dambusters Raid lived here 51.5255, -0.177909
#446: Joanna Baillie poet and dramatist born 1762 died 1851 lived in this house for nearly 50 years 51.5588, -0.1805
#447: Sir Charles Wyndham (1837-1919), actor-manager, lived and died here. 51.5239, -0.151065
#448: United States Embassy 1863-1866. Henry Brooks Adams 1838-1918 US historian lived here 51.5227, -0.1459
#449: Will Thorne (1857-1946), Trade Union Leader and Labour M.P., lived here. 51.5358, 0.02665
#450: Samuel Phelps 1804-1878 tragedian lived here 51.5434, -0.100675
#451: Lady Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury (1887-1969), politician and writer, lived here. 51.5144, -0.170095
#452: Collins Music Hall was here from 1862-1958 51.5364, -0.10245
#453: Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield 1804-1881 died here 51.5064, -0.150583
#454: John Walter 1739-1812 founder of The Times lived here 51.4615, -0.1601
#455: George Edmund Street 1824-1881 architect lived here 51.5171, -0.144179
#456: Aubrey Beardsley 1872-1898 artist lived here 51.4895, -0.142436
#457: William Roberts 1895-1980 artist lived, worked and died here 1946-1980 51.5385, -0.150906
#458: Sean O'Casey 1880-1964 playwright lived here at flat No. 49 51.4752, -0.158144
#459: Ivor Novello 1893-1951 composer and actor-manager lived and died in a flat on the top floor of this building 51.5123, -0.118904
#460: Sir Norman Lockyer (1836-1920), astronomer, physicist and founder of 'Nature', lived here 1876-1920 51.4911, -0.193222
#461: R. M. Ballantyne 1825-1894 author of books for boys lived here 51.565, -0.34269
#462: Hilaire Belloc 1870-1953 poet, essayist and historian, lived here 1900-1905 51.4819, -0.17488
#463: The workshop of Thomas Chippendale and his son, cabinet makers stood near this site 1753-1813 51.5122, -0.127335
#464: Augustus Siebe 1788-1872 pioneer of the diving helmet lived and worked here 51.5153, -0.129434
#465: William Pitt the Younger 1759-1806 lived here 1803 to 1804 51.5211, -0.157189
#466: Bernardo O'Higgins 1778-1842 General, statesman and liberator of Chile lived and studied here 51.4577, -0.302938
#467: Howard Carter 1874-1939 Egyptologist and discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun lived here 51.4919, -0.188721
#468: Thomas Hood 1799-1845 poet lived and died here 51.537, -0.176209
#469: John Keats poet lived in this house B:1795, D:1821. 51.5559, -0.1668
#470: Frances Mary Buss 1827-1894 pioneer of education for women was headmistress here 1879-1894 51.5462, -0.134283
#471: Thomas Daniell 1749-1840 topographical artist lived here 51.4979, -0.2014
#472: Reverend P. T. B. 'Tubby' Clayton 1885-1972 founder of Toc H lived here. 51.5105, -0.076867
#473: Sylvia Pankhurst 1882-1960 campaigner for Women's Rights lived here 51.4817, -0.175851
#474: Ben Nicholson O.M. 1894-1982 artist lived and died here 51.5553, -0.171958
#475: Here lived John Loudon and Jane Loudon 1783-1843 and 1807-1858. Their horticultural work gave new beauty to London squares 51.5115, -0.183983
#476: Robert Baden-Powell 1857-1941 Chief Scout of the World lived here 51.5009, -0.181474
#477: George Canning 1770-1827 statesman lived here 51.509, -0.145721
#478: Alfred Russel Wallace 1823-1913 naturalist lived here 51.3646, -0.095453
#479: Charles Lamb 1775-1834 and Mary Lamb 1764-1847 writers lived here 51.6254, -0.062694
#480: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 lived here as a law student 51.4898, -0.20859
#481: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1836-1908 Prime Minister lived here 51.5014, -0.151382
#482: Sir Charles Eastlake 1793-1865 painter and first director of the National Gallery lived here 51.5235, -0.139898
#483: Herbert Chapman 1878-1934 football manager lived and died here 51.5793, -0.216256
#484: Captain Matthew Flinders RN 1774-1814 explorer and navigator lived here 51.5235, -0.139898
#485: C. L. R. James (1901-1989), writer and political activist, lived and died here 51.4567, -0.105977
#486: Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Physican and benefactor of the British Museum, lived here 1695-1742. 51.5197, -0.122346
#487: Sir William Rothenstein 1872-1945 painter and writer lived here 1899-1902 51.4968, -0.1992
#488: James Robinson (1813-1862), pioneer of Anaesthesia and Dentistry Lived and worked here. 51.5201, -0.130044
#489: Napoleon III (1808-1873), Emperor of the French, lived here 1848. 51.5068, -0.136584
#490: George Leybourne 'Champagne Charlie' (1842-1884), music hall comedian lived and died here. 51.5438, -0.089159
#491: Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922), journalist and newspaper proprietor, lived here. 51.5496, -0.19558
#492: Gus Elen (1862-1940), music hall comedian, lived here. 51.4531, -0.154108
#493: Lady Jane Francesca 'Speranza' Wilde (1821-1896), poet and essayist lived here 1887-1896. 51.4855, -0.168986
#494: John Tweed (1863-1933), sculptor, lived here. 51.4817, -0.175984
#495: E. M. Forster (1879-1970), novelist, lived here. 51.4923, -0.267096
#496: Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), pioneer of the study of molecular structures including DNA lived here 1951-1958. 51.4873, -0.179351
#497: Ruth First (1925-1982), Joe Slovo (1926-1995), South African freedom fighters lived here 1966-1978 51.5404, -0.13853
#498: David Bomberg (1890-1957), painter, lived and worked here 1928-1934. 51.5481, -0.201841
#499: Sir William Sterndale Bennett 1816-1875 composer lived here 51.5121, -0.185368
#500: T. S. Eliot OM (1888-1965), poet, lived and died here. 51.5001, -0.187918
#501: Sir Harry Lauder (1870-1950), music hall artiste, lived here 1903-1911. 51.4223, -0.170082
#502: James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915), poet and dramatist, was born here. 51.4611, -0.007799
#503: Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (Anthony Hope) 1863-1933 novelist lived here 1903-1917 51.5184, -0.130301
#504: Thomas Rowlandson 1757-1827 artist and caricaturist lived in a house on this site 51.5094, -0.122743
#505: Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882 poet and painter and Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837-1909 poet lived here 51.4838, -0.165745
#506: Sir Ambrose Fleming 1849-1945 scientist and electrical engineer lived here 51.5239, -0.182951
#507: Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher 1890-1962 statistician and geneticist lived here 1896-1904 51.565, -0.180647
#508: Under these arches Alliott Verdon Roe assembled his AVRO No. 1 triplane. In July 1909 he made the first all-British powered flight from Walthamstow Marsh. 51.5682, -0.0509
#509: Robert Adam, Thomas Hood, John Galsworthy, Sir James M. Barrie and other eminent artists and writers lived here 51.509, -0.122944
#510: Octavia Hill 1838-1912 housing reformer, Co-founder of The National Trust began her work here 51.5197, -0.152521
#511: Charles Robert Cockerell 1788-1863 architect and antiquary lived and died here 51.5285, -0.145391
#512: Charles Eamer Kempe 1837-1907 stained glass artist lived and worked here 51.5221, -0.153191
#513: R. H. Tawney 1880-1962 historian, teacher and political writer lived here 51.5252, -0.117803
#514: Charles Booth 1840-1916 pioneer in social research lived here 51.4955, -0.1852
#515: Andrés Bello 1781-1865 poet, jurist, philologist and Venezuelan patriot lived here in 1810 51.5234, -0.137884
#516: Thomas Young 1773-1829 man of science lived here 51.5158, -0.148481
#517: The world's first regular high definition television service was inaugurated here by the BBC 2 November 1936 51.5944, -0.128743
#518: Sir Frank Short 1857-1945 engraver and painter lived here 51.4955, -0.217379
#519: Lord Horatio Nelson 1758-1805 lived here in 1798 51.5138, -0.14597
#520: David Lloyd George Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor 1863-1945 Prime Minister lived here 51.448, -0.169519
#521: John Linnell 1792-1882 painter lived here. William Blake 1757-1827 poet and artist stayed here as his guest.
#522: Mary Kingsley 1862-1900 traveller and ethnologist lived here as a child
#523: Harold Laski 1893-1950 teacher and political philosopher lived here 1926-1950 51.4954, -0.2073
#524: Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890 painter lived here 1873-1874 51.4745, -0.115351
#525: Charles Stanhope 3rd Earl Stanhope 1753-1816 reformer and inventor lived here 51.5193, -0.146102
#526: John Dryden poet lived here B.1631 D.1700 51.5117, -0.131025
#527: William Makepeace Thackeray novelist lived here. Born 1811, died 1863. 51.4991, -0.1431
#528: Samuel Smiles 1812-1904 the great propagandist of Victorian values through his books 'Self-Help', 'Character', 'Thrift', and 'Duty', lived here. 51.4669, -0.004484
#529: James Hilton 1900-1954 novelist and scriptwriter lived here 51.6005, 0.0129
#530: The first flying bomb on London fell here 13 June 1944 51.5278, -0.037347
#531: George Du Maurier 1834-1896 artist and writer lived here 1863-1868 51.518, -0.12741
#533: Howard Staunton 1810-1874 British World Chess Champion lived here 1871-1874
#534: Olive Schreiner 1855-1920 author lived here 51.5152, -0.164378
#535: Sir John Lubbock Baron Avebury (1834-1913) born here
#536: Dennis Gabor 1900-1979 physicist and inventor of holography lived here 51.4944, -0.178905
#537: These two houses were the Portuguese Embassy 1724-1747 The Marquess of Pombal Portuguese statesman, ambassador 1739-1744 lived here 51.5117, -0.137205
#538: Dr Edvard Benes 1884-1948 President of Czechoslovakia lived here 51.4602, -0.22266
#539: C. Day-Lewis 1904-1972 Poet Laureate lived here 1957-1972
#540: Charles Kingsley 1819-1875 writer lived here
#541: Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864 American author stayed here in 1856 51.4659, 0.013922
#542: Hector Berlioz 1803-1869 composer stayed here in 1851 51.5179, -0.147451
#543: T. E. Lawrence 'Lawrence of Arabia' 1888-1935 lived here 51.4975, -0.127846
#544: Martin Van Buren 1782-1862 eighth U.S. President lived here 51.515, -0.149206
#545: J. M. W. Turner R.A. 1775-1851 painter designed and lived in this house 51.4538, -0.316472
#546: Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904 explorer and writer lived and died here 51.5031, -0.123706
#547: The Silver Studio, established here in 1880. Arthur Silver (1853-1896), Rex Silver (1879-1965), Harry Silver (1881-1971), designers, lived here.
#548: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970 philosopher and campaigner for peace lived here in flat no.34 1911-1916 51.5185, -0.12394
#549: David Edward Hughes 1831-1900 scientist and inventor of the microphone lived and worked here
#550: General Charles De Gaulle President of the French National Committee set up the Headquarters of the Free French Forces here in 1940 51.5053, -0.13394
#551: William De Morgan ceramic artist and novelist (1839-1917) and his wife Evelyn De Morgan artist (1855-1919) lived and died here 51.4873, -0.174046
#552: On the site behind this house stood until 1904 Broomwood House - formerly Broomfield - where William Wilberforce resided during the campaign against slavery which he successfully conducted in Parliament. 51.4544, -0.160006
#553: George Richmond 1809-1896 painter lived here 1843-1896 51.5208, -0.158446
#554: Coventry Patmore 1823-1896 poet and essayist lived here 1863-1864 51.5182, -0.133869
#555: Dr Jimmy Mallon 1874-1961 warden of Toynbee Hall, champion of social reform lived here
#556: Sir Charles Stanford 1852-1924 musician lived here 1894-1916 51.5029, -0.194849
#557: Philip Noel-Baker 1889-1982 Olympic sportsman, campaigner for peace and disarmament lived here 51.4936, -0.153019
#558: Arthur Hughes 1832-1915 Pre-Raphaelite painter lived and died here 51.484, -0.28627
#559: Charles Darwin 1809-1882 naturalist lived in a house on this site 1838-1842 51.5232, -0.133421
#560: Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895 biologist lived here 51.5346, -0.180806
#561: Sir Julius Benedict (1804-1885) musical composer lived and died here 51.5166, -0.152144
#562: Sir Jonathan Hutchinson 1828-1913 surgeon, scientist and teacher lived here 51.5163, -0.144941
#563: Johann Zoffany 1733-1810 painter lived here 1790-1810 51.485, -0.279
#564: Edward Adrian Wilson 1872-1912 Antarctic explorer and naturalist lived here
#565: Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 Indian poet stayed here in 1912 51.562, -0.1765
#566: Dame Marie Rambert 1888-1982 founder of Ballet Rambert lived here
#567: Dame Laura Knight 1877-1970 and Harold Knight 1874-1961 painters lived here 51.5342, -0.178819
#568: John Scott Eldon, Lord 1751-1838 Lord Chancellor lived here 51.5193, -0.129
#569: Sir Laurance Alma-Tadema O.M. 1836-1912 painter lived here 1886-1912 51.5325, -0.176561
#570: D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930 novelist and poet lived here in 1915 51.563, -0.176
#571: John Harrison 1693-1776 inventor of the Marine Chronometer lived and died in a house on this site 51.5188, -0.1186
#572: John Wesley (1703-1791), evangelist, and founder of Methodism, lived here.
#573: Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) novelist lived here 51.5184, -0.159713
#574: Sir Nigel Playfair (1874-1934), actor-manager, lived here. 51.4929, -0.17084
#575: Henry John Temple Palmerston, 3rd Viscount (1784-1865), Prime Minister, Born here 51.5005, -0.132372
#576: Daniel Defoe (1661-1731), novelist, lived in a house on this site. 51.5621, -0.078923
#577: Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), poetess, lived and died here.
#578: Sir Gerald du Maurier (1873-1934), actor manager, lived here from 1916 until his death. 51.5603, -0.175058
#579: Lord Dowding, Air Chief Marshal, (1882-1970), Leader of Fighter Command, lived here 1941-1951.
#581: Sir William Reid Dick (1878-1961), sculptor, worked here in studio 3, 1910-1914
#582: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and Dame Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958), campaigners for Women's Suffrage, lived here. 51.5102, -0.209266
#583: Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée) 1839-1908 novelist lived here 51.4975, -0.241752
#584: Bruce Bairnsfather (1888-1959), cartoonist, lived here.
#585: Kathleen Ferrier (1912-1953), Contralto, lived here. 51.5572, -0.182277
#586: Charles Bridgeman, landscape gardener lived here 1723-1738. 51.5128, -0.137881
#587: Nelson lived here in 1797. Born 1758, fell at Trafalgar 1805. 51.5113, -0.143735
#588: William Marsden (1796-1867), surgeon, founder of the Royal Free and Royal Marsden Hospitals, lived here. 51.5155, -0.115925
#589: Clement Richard Attlee (1883-1967), Prime Minister, lived here. 51.6091, 0.032391
#590: Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, KG (1850-1916) lived here 1914-1915
#591: Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), scientist and inventor, lived here. 51.5229, -0.146816
#592: Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), poet, lived here. 51.5364, -0.144359
#593: Ann Oldfield 1683-1730 Actress first occupant of this house 1725-1730 51.5118, -0.146956
#594: Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald (1775-1860), And later David, Earl BEATTY, OM (1871-1936), Admirals, lived here.
#595: Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970), guitarist and Songwriter, lived here 1968-1969. 51.5131, -0.146084
#596: Andrew Lang (1844-1912), man of letters, lived here in 1876-1912.
#597: Bert Ambrose (c.1896-1971), Dance Band Leader, lived and played here, 1927-1940 51.5073, -0.1435
#598: Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), artist, lived here.
#599: Ada Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), pioneer of Computing lived here. 51.5074, -0.13628
#600: This building stands on the site of Adelphi Terrace built by the brothers Adam in 1768-1774. Famous residents in the Terrace include Topham (1739-1780), friend of Dr Johnson and Lady Diana Beauclerk (1734-1808), Amateur artist; David Garrick (1717-1779),
#601: Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith 1852-1928 statesman lived here 51.5163, -0.144941
#602: Doctor Barnardo, 1845-1905 Began his work, for children in a, building on this, site in 1866 51.518, -0.0396
#603: P. G. Wodehouse 1881-1975 Writer lived here 51.5124, -0.1572
#604: Mary Seacole 1805-1881 Jamaican nurse heroine of the Crimean War lived here 51.5157, -0.132148
#605: Francis Place (1771-1854), political reformer, lived here 1833-1851. 51.4982, -0.169135
#606: Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty, lived here 1679-1688. 51.5082, -0.123465
#608: The Foundry established by William Caslon (1692-1766), typefounder, stood on this site 1737-1909. 51.5207, -0.089545
#609: Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), writer and philanthropist, lived here. 51.5329, -0.042439
#610: William Smith MP (1756-1835), pioneer of religious liberty, lived here. 51.5006, -0.132459
#611: Sir William Orpen (1878-1931), painter, lived here. 51.4898, -0.186848
#612: Private Frederick Hitch V.C. 1856-1913 hero of Rorke’s Drift lived and died here 51.4916, -0.253243
#613: Dan Leno (1860-1904), music hall comedian, lived here 1898-1901. 51.473, -0.107572
#614: Henry Noel Brailsford (1873-1958), writer, Champion of Equal and Free Humanity, lived here. 51.5477, 0.0
#615: Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), Hindu philosopher, lived here in 1896 51.4897, -0.141331
#617: Sidney Webb (1859-1947), and Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), social scientists and political reformers, lived here. 51.5482, -0.179226
#618: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), composer, lived here from 1953 until his death. 51.5277, -0.162681
#619: Dr José Rizal (1861-1896), writer and national hero of the Philippines, lived here. 51.5408, -0.156098
#620: Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), scientist, philosopher and Theologian, was Minister to the Gravel Pit Meeting here in 1793-1794. 51.5468, -0.050125
#621: Sir John Lavery (1856-1941), painter, lived here 1899-1940. 51.4955, -0.174906
#622: Sir Adrian Boult, CH (1889-1983), conductor, lived at flat No. 78 1966-1977. 51.5529, -0.191374
#623: Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933), Typographer and antiquary, lived here 1903-1933. 51.49, -0.241895
#624: Anthony Salvin (1799-1881), architect, lived here. 51.5279, -0.162775
#625: Essex Street was laid out in the grounds of Essex House by Nicholas Barbon in 1675. Among many famous lawyers who lived here were Sir Orlando Bridgeman (c.1606-1674), Lord Keeper; Henry Fielding (1707-1754), novelist; and Brass Crosby (1725-1793), Lord Mayor of London 51.513, -0.113263
#626: Sir Geoffrey De Havilland (1882-1965), aircraft designer, lived here 1909-1910 51.4898, -0.209133
#627: Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), poet, lived and studied in Manresa House. 51.4483, -0.241418
#628: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 creator of Sherlock Holmes lived here 1891-1894 51.3953, -0.080737
#629: George Romney (1734-1802), painter, lived here. 51.558, -0.1797
#630: Hugh Gaitskell (1906-1963), statesman, lived here. 51.5568, -0.1813
#631: Muzio Clementi (1752-1832), composer, lived here. 51.5073, -0.19472
#632: W. Heath Robinson (1872-1944), illustrator and Comic artist, lived here. 51.5988, -0.377621
#633: Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814), inventor and adventurer, lived here. 51.498, -0.166833
#634: Ellen Terry (1847-1928), actress, lived here. 51.4923, -0.190953
#635: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), composer, lived here in 1909. 51.5045, -0.195174
#636: Sir Eyre Massey Shaw 1830-1908 first Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade lived here 1878-1891 51.5027, -0.097361
#637: Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), painter and writer, lived here. 51.5083, -0.193632
#638: Caroline Chisholm (1808-1877), philanthropist, 'The Emigrants' Friends', lived here. 51.5347, -0.102931
#639: Edith Cavell (1865-1915), pioneer of modern nursing in Belgium and heroine of the Great War, trained and worked here 1896-1901. 51.519, -0.059922
#640: W. E. H. Lecky (1838-1903), historian and essayist, lived and died here. 51.4899, -0.176129
#641: Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), physician, reformer and philanthropist, lived here. 51.5185, -0.130537
#642: Marie Taglioni (1809-1884), ballet dancer, lived here in 1875-1876. 51.5146, -0.163639
#643: Robert Stephenson (1803-1859), engineer, died here. 51.5146, -0.171074
#644: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), dramatist, lived here. 51.511, -0.140526
#645: Sir Charles Santley (1834-1922), Singer, lived and died here. 51.5361, -0.179386
#646: George Peabody (1795-1869), philanthropist, died here. 51.4952, -0.153768
#647: George Frampton 1860-1928 sculptor lived and worked here 1894-1908 51.5382, -0.172297
#648: Harold Nicolson 1886-1968 and Vita Sackville-West 1892-1962 writers and gardeners lived here 51.4913, -0.152457
#649: James Thomson (1700-1748), poet, author of Rule Britannia, lived and died here 51.4663, -0.301294
#650: Francis Turner Palgrave 1824-1897 compiler of 'The Golden Treasury' lived here 1862-1875 51.5235, -0.152747
#651: Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727 lived here 51.5081, -0.137501
#652: John Lindley (1799-1865), botanist and pioneer Orchidologist, lived here from 1836 and died here 51.4968, -0.255847
#653: Dame Ninette de Valois 1898-2001 O.M. founder of the Royal Ballet lived here 1962-1982 51.4726, -0.252705
#654: Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944), painter, Printer, Wood engraver, lived here.
#655: Enid Bagnold 1889-1981 novelist and playwright lived here 51.5001, -0.181454
#656: Sir Richard Westmacott (1775-1856), sculptor, lived and died here. 51.5083, -0.15121
#657: John Francis Bentley 1839-1902 architect lived here 51.4641, -0.141177
#658: Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901), novelist and antiquary, lived and died here. 51.5568, -0.1813
#659: Victor Weisz "Vicky" 1913-1966 cartoonist lived in a flat in this building 51.5189, -0.1497
#660: Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912), architect, designed this house, in which he lived, worked and died
#661: Rose Macaulay 1881-1958 writer lived and died here
#662: Vera Brittain 1893-1970 Winifred Holtby 1898-1935 writers and reformers lived here 51.5231, -0.116058
#663: Rufus Isaacs 1st Marquess of Reading 1860-1935 lawyer and statesman lived and died here 51.5066, -0.148801
#664: In this house The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848. 51.5235, -0.133702
#665: William Hazlitt 1778-1830 essayist died here 51.5145, -0.132377
#666: John Howard 1726-1790 prison reformer lived here 51.5222, -0.119228
#667: Sir Bernard Spilsbury 1877-1947 forensic pathologist lived here 1912-1940 51.538, -0.17761
#668: Robert Falcon Scott Antarctic explorer (1868-1912) lived here 51.4837, -0.167385
#669: Austin Dobson (1840-1921), poet and essayist, lived here.
#670: Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925), Camden Town Group painter, lived here 1900-1925.
#671: Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), statesman, lived here.
#672: William Henry Pratt alias Boris Karloff 1887-1969 actor was born here 51.4534, -0.061749
#673: Dame Margaret Rutherford (1892-1972), actress lived here 1895-1920 51.4202, -0.2214
#674: Jenny Lind (Madame Goldschmidt) 1820-1887 singer lived here 51.4906, -0.185845
#675: This was the London home of G. Lowes Dickinson, author and Humanist. He was born 1862 and died 1932. 51.4975, -0.1995
#676: John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971), crystallographer, lived and died here. 51.5342, -0.141498
#677: Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), painter, lived here
#678: General John Burgoyne (1722-1792), lived and died here. 51.5058, -0.147916
#679: Charles X 1757-1836 last Bourbon King of France lived here 1805-1814
#680: Ugo Foscolo 1778-1827 Italian poet and patriot lived here 1817-1818 51.4974, -0.1994
#681: José de San Martín (The Liberator) 1778-1850 Argentine soldier and statesman stayed here 51.5242, -0.158926
#682: Marie Lloyd 1870-1922 music hall artiste lived here 51.5459, -0.065663
#683: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), poet & novelist, lived here 1878-1881.
#684: Robert Donat (1905-1958), actor, lived here.
#685: Sir Rowland Hill KCB, originator of the Penny Post, lived here in 1849-1879. Born 1795. Died 1879.
#686: Sir Francis Beaufort 1774-1857 Admiral and hydrographer lived here
#687: John Gilbert Winant 1889-1947 United States Ambassador 1941-1946 lived here
#688: Gustav Holst (1874-1934), composer wrote 'The Planets' and taught here
#689: Henry James (1843-1916), writer, lived here 1886-1902.
#690: Charles Wesley 1707-1788 divine and hymn writer lived and died in a house on this site, and his sons Charles 1757-1834 and Samuel 1766-1837 musicians also lived here 51.5195, -0.150375
#691: Dame Marie Tempest 1864-1942 actress lived here 1899-1902 51.523, -0.147461
#692: Marcus Stone 1840-1921 artist lived here 1877-1921 51.4994, -0.203862
#693: Dennis Brain 1921-1957 horn player lived here
#694: Sir Norman Hartnell 1901-1979 Court Dressmaker lived and worked here 1935-1979
#695: Mark Gertler 1891-1939 painter lived here 51.5212, -0.07699
#696: George Frederick Bodley 1827-1907 Gothic architect lived here 1862-1873 51.5213, -0.148017
#697: Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), painter, lived here.
#698: William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect worshipped in this church. Their campaigning resulted in the abolition of slavery in the British Dominions 1833.
#699: George Macdonald (1824-1905), story teller, lived here 1860-1863
#700: Sir Marc Isambard Brunel 1769-1849 and Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1806-1859 civil engineers lived here 51.4819, -0.1742
#701: David Devant (1868-1941), magician lived here 51.5519, -0.166964
#702: Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), writer, lived here.
#703: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), Portrait painter, lived and died in a house on this site.
#704: Bow Street was formed about 1637. It has been the residence of many notable men, among whom were: Henry Fielding (1707-1754), novelist; Sir John Fielding (d.1780), magistrate; Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721), wood carver; Charles Macklin (1690-1797), actor;
#705: Cetshwayo c1832-1884 King of the Zulus stayed here in 1882 51.4992, -0.202063
#706: Lord Henry John Temple Palmerston 1784-1865 statesman lived here 51.5053, -0.13394
#707: Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson 1840-1922 founded the Doves Bindery and Doves Press in this house and later lived and died here 51.4906, -0.235073
#708: Theodor Fontane (1819-1898), German writer and novelist, lived here 1857-1858 51.5431, -0.131379
#710: Sydney Smith (1771-1845) author and wit lived here 51.5237, -0.116647
#711: Ted 'Kid' Lewis 1893-1970 World Champion Boxer lived and died here 51.4493, -0.1596
#712: Hertha Ayrton 1854-1923 physicist lived here 1903-1923
#713: Henry Fielding (1707-1754), novelist, lived here.
#714: Frederick Delius (1862-1934), composer, lived here 1918-1919.
#715: Robert Fortune (1812-1880), plant collector lived here 1857-1880.
#716: Charles 'Elia' Lamb (1775-1834), essayist, lived here. 51.5335, -0.104134
#967: Sir George Williams (1821-1905) founder of Young Men's Christian Association lived at No. 13 Russell Square 51.5225, -0.126474
#973: The Queen's Hall 1893-1941. Site of Britain's leading concert hall where Sir Henry Wood founded the promenade concerts in 1895. The Queen's Hall was destroyed in the Blitz of 1941. 51.5179, -0.143033
#982: Phil May (1864-1903) artist lived and worked here 51.4981, -0.2038
#983: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898) artist lived at The Grange on this site 1867-1898. 51.4938, -0.20859
#993: 13 November 1807. The first geological society in the world was inaugurated in a building on this site known as The Freemasons' Tavern 51.5149, -0.121559
#1081: Here lived Topham Beauclerk born 1739 died 1780 Lady Diana Beauclerk born 1734 died 1808
#1082: Here lived the architects Augustus Charles Pugin born 1762 died 1832 Augustus Welby N. Pugin born 1812 died 1852
#1083: In a house on this site Samuel Pepys diarist was born (1632 - 1703) 51.5139, -0.106177
#1085: In a house on this site lived Mary Wollstonecraft author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women 1759-1797
#1086: Lord Eldon (1751-1838) Lord Chancellor lived here 51.5193, -0.129173
#1088: Ali Mohammed Abbas 1922-1979 barrister and one of the founders of Pakistan lived here 1945-1979 51.525, -0.129783
#1089: Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) literary hostess and patron of the arts lived here 51.5193, -0.130389
#1090: Edwin Waterhouse eminent accountant worked in this building 1899-1905 51.5141, -0.09123
#1091: Near this spot the General Letter Office stood in Post House Yard 1653-1666 Here were struck in 1661 the first postmarks in the world 51.5136, -0.089057
#1092: In a house on this site lived William Hazlitt 1829 51.5137, -0.107949
#1093: Charles Lamb was born in the chambers which formerly stood here 10 February 1775. "Cheerful Crown Office Row (place of my kindly engendure)...a man would give something to have been born is such places"
#1094: François Guizot (1787-1874) French politician and historian lived here 1848-1849
#1095: George Godwin (1813-1888) architect, journalist and social reformer lived here
#1096: John Everett Millais 1829-1896, Emil Otto Hoppe 1878-192, Francis Bacon 1909-1992 and other artists lived here
#1097: John William Polidori 1795-1821 poet and novelist, author of 'The Vampyre' born and died here 51.5125, -0.1364
#1098: Jessie Matthews OBE 1907-1981 musical comedy star of stage and films was born in this house 51.5136, -0.134894
#1099: Sir Morell Mackenzie 1837-1892 founded the world's first hospital for diseases of the throat in a building on this site in 1865 51.5118, -0.137652
#1100: Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979) entertainer and writer lived here in flat no.8 1957-1979
#1101: Sir Stafford Cripps (1889-1952) statesman born here
#1102: John Stephen 1934-2004 founder of Carnaby Street as world centre for men's fashion in the 1960's 51.5122, -0.1378
#1103: In a house on this site in 1764-5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 lived, played and composed 51.5135, -0.131484
#1104: Dr John Snow 1813-1858 pioneer anaesthetist and epidemiologist lived in a house on this site 51.5139, -0.131763
#1105: Karl Marx 1818-1883 lived here 1851-56 51.5158, -0.1337
#1106: C. Day-Lewis 1904-1972 Poet Laureate lived here 1957-1972
#1107: Sir John Vanbrugh architect and dramatist designed this house and lived here c. 1719-26
#1112: From this site John Logie Baird broadcast the first television programme in Great Britain on the 30th September 1929 51.5123, -0.125926
#1113: Robert Adam 1728-1792 architect 51.509, -0.122944
#1114: This building housed the offices of Charles Dickens' magazine 'All The Year Round' and his private apartments 1859-1870
#1115: Voltaire 1694-1778 French philosopher and satirist lodged in a house on this site 1727-1728 51.5106, -0.123556
#1117: Guiseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) Italian patriot lived here
#1118: Catherine Walters (Skittles) the last Victorian courtesan lived here from 1872 until 1920 51.5082, -0.152461
#1120: Writer - humorist Sir P. G. Wodehouse in residence 1918-1920 51.4976, -0.163245
#1125: Arnold Bennett author 1867-1931 lived, worked and died here 1930-1931 51.5225, -0.1575
#1127: Prince Metternich (1773-1859) Austrian statesman lived here in 1848 51.495, -0.151852
#1128: George Moore (1852-1933) author lived and died here 51.4937, -0.1495
#1129: Lillie Langtry (1852-1929) actress lived here 51.5017, -0.156453
#1133: Edvard Grieg 51.4615, -0.148973
#1134: Rotherhithe Picture Research Library and Sands Films Studio
#1135: Sir Michael Caine 1933 Film legend Born in St Olave's hospital, Rotherhithe
#1137: Richard Carr Gomm 1922 Social Reformer Founder of the Abbefield and Carr-Gomm Societies Lived and worked here 51.4952, -0.053544
#1138: M. Manze Founded 1902 Opened here 1927 The home of pie and mash 51.4741, -0.068629
#1139: Rio Ferdinand born 1978 Peckham's football legend who lived on the Friary Estate 51.4811, -0.066808
#1140: Charles Babbage 1791 to 1871 Mathematical genius, astronomer, inventor and "Father of Computing"
#1141: Charlie Chaplin 1889 to 1977 Walworth-born comic genius 51.4879, -0.095601
#1142: George Livesey, Sir 1834 to 1908 Chairman of the South Metropolitan Gas Company and one of Southwark's greatest industrialists Gave this building to the People
#1143: Henry Cooper, Sir born 1934 British European and Commonwealth Heavy Weight Champion trained in the gymnasium of the Thomas a Becket 51.488, -0.076614
#1144: Peek Freans Founded in 1857 World renowned biscuit maker that gave Bermondsey the name "Biscuit Town"
#1145: The Clink. Most notorious medieval prison 51.5068, -0.0911
#1146: Bert Hardy 1913 to 1995 Photographer Born and grew up in The Priory "The man behind the camera"
#1147: Borough Market London's oldest fruit and veg market
#1148: Charles Dickens 1812-1870 writer, journalist and social reformer 51.5014, -0.096511
#1149: Druid Street Arch Bombing. On October 25 1940 a bomb fell through the Railway Arch killing 77 people sheltering from the air raid 51.5002, -0.076056
#1150: Harry Cole 51.5012, -0.096624
#1151: Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 to 1797
#1152: Octavia Hill
#1153: John Harvard 51.5018, -0.092647
#1154: Marianne Jean-Baptiste 1967 Camberwell-born actress First black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar born here
#1155: Una Marson 1905 to 1965 Poet, playwright, campaigner for equality, first black woman programme maker at the BBC
#1156: Anne Shelton (1928-1994) popular singer and World War II Forces Favourite lived here 51.4476, -0.076163
#1157: Edgar Kail Dulwich Hamlet FC 1900 to 1976 Last amateur footballer to play for England 51.4628, -0.0841
#1158: Enid Blyton 1867-1968 popular writer of over 600 books for children 51.4494, -0.0746
#1159: Phyllis Pearsall (1906-1996) inventor of the London A to Z lived here
#1160: Edward Turner 1901-1973 engineer and designer of Triumph motorcycles, the Ariel Square Four and the Daimler V8 engine. Lived and worked here in the early 1920s. 51.4656, -0.065
#1161: Oliver Goldsmith 1730 to 1774 flamboyant playwright, author of "She Stoops to Conquer"
#1162: The Pioneer Health Centre opened here in 1935. Known world-wide as the Peckham Experiment, it was a family-based club for the study of health and society
#1163: Bobby Abel "The Guv'nor" 1857 to 1936. One of England's finest ever cricketers
#1164: Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1806-1859. Great Victorian Engineer. His first project was the Thames Tunnel, the world's first underwater tunnel. 51.5016, -0.052592
#1166: Kenneth Williams 51.5255, -0.143
#1178: Dusty Springfield 51.5064, -0.201277
#1179: Harry Beck designer of the London Underground map lived here 1936-1960
#1182: Keith Moon (1946-1978) legendary rock drummer with 'The Who' performed here at the site of the Marquee Club in the 1960s 51.5132, -0.133825
#1204: Sir Francis Pettit Smith (1808-1874), pioneer of the screw-propeller, where he lived from 1864-1870
#1239: Near this site stood Henry Earlforward's bookshop in Arnold Bennett's 1923 novel Riceyman Steps set in Clerkenwell 51.5265, -0.113051
#1241: Nancy Mitford 1904-1973 writer worked here 1942-1945 51.507, -0.146365
#1243: Joseph Grimaldi 1778-1837 clown lived here 1818-1828 51.526, -0.109
#1246: H. G. Wells author 1866-1946 lived and worked here 1930-1936 51.5218, -0.1575
#1266: Here lived Charles Kitterbell as related by Charles Dickens in Sketches by Boz "The Bloomsbury Christening"
#1267: Site of the Priory of the Blackfriars founded 1278 51.5135, -0.102689
#1269: Greater London Council Dame Henrietta Barnett 1851-1936 Founder of Hampstead Garden Suburb and Canon Samuel Barnett 1844-1913 Social Reformer lived here
#1270: Professor Slobodan Yovanovitch 1869-1958 Serbian Historian Literary Critic Legal Scholar Prime Minister of Yugoslavia lived here 1945-1958 51.5007, -0.1804
#1272: English Heritage Sir Noel Coward 1899-1973 Actor, Playwright and Songwriter born here
#1288: This was the home of the Goossens family of musicians 1912-1927 51.4922, -0.210295
#1289: Quaid i Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah 1876-1948 founder of Pakistan stayed here in 1895 51.4986, -0.210053
#1291: Viscount Grey of Falloden Sir Edward Grey 1862-1933 Foreign Secretary lived here 51.5006, -0.132136
#1293: Samuel Morse 1791-1872 American painter, and inventor of the Morse Code lived here 1812-1815 51.5229, -0.141636
#1296: Dame Celia Johnson 1908-1982 actress was born here 51.4568, -0.3039
#1298: 221b Sherlock Holmes consulting detective 1881-1904 51.5235, -0.158
#1299: John Lennon 1940-1980 musician and songwriter 51.5204, -0.156605
#1300: Lady Byron 1792-1860 founded the renowned co-operative school within these environs 1834-1859 51.5065, -0.3047
#1312: By virtue of its historic interest this pub merits the title a Taylor Walker Heritage Inn Crown & Greyhound
#1316: Jeremy Bentham philosopher and reformer 1748-1832 lived in a house on this site 51.5004, -0.1323
#1318: H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence lived here 1826. Later to become King William IV (The Sailor King) 1830-1837
#1319: Anthony Eden, Lord Avon 1897-1977 Prime Minister of Great Britain lived here
#1320: William Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 novelist and playwright lived here 1911-1919
#1321: Musician, writer, broadcaster Benny Green 1927-1998 lived here 1932-1964 51.5235, -0.1425
#1322: The first birth control clinic was opened by Dr. Marie Stopes in 1921 at Holloway and removed here in 1925 51.5231, -0.138
#1323: Richard Savage, Fourth Earl Rivers, governer of The Tower Of London 1660-1712 lived here 51.5005, -0.1327
#1324: T. E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia" 1888-1935 lived here 51.4975, -0.127809
#1325: W. T. Stead 1849-1912 journalist and reformer of great renown lived here 1904-1912 51.4963, -0.127106
#1327: Wynkyn de Worde father of Fleet Street first set up his press by Shoe Lane near this hall circa 1500 51.518, -0.105999
#1328: In a house on this site Doctor Samuel Johnson lived between 1765-1776
#1330: In a house on this site lived Gregory De Rokesley, eight times Mayor of London 1274-1281 and 1285 51.5129, -0.088239
#1331: Site of Lloyds Coffee House 1691-1785
#1332: In a house in this court Alexander Pope poet was born 1688 51.5121, -0.085864
#1363: Near here at Fallow Corner stood the home of Joseph Grimaldi actor and famous clown (1779-1837)
#1364: Dr. Samuel Johnson author lived here b. 1709 d. 1784 51.5151, -0.108125
#1367: Sir Carol Reed film director lived here 1948-1978 51.4868, -0.17055
#1368: Ellen Terry The great actress lived here from 1904 to 1920 51.4868, -0.17055
#1369: Robert Graves 1895-1985 Writer was born here 51.4211, -0.221038
#1370: On this site lived William Wilberforce Statesman & Emancipator 1759-1833 51.4233, -0.2239
#1372: Thomas Lord laid out his original cricket ground on this site in 1787. The M.C.C. was founded here in the same year. 51.5229, -0.160181
#1373: John Wesley (1703-1791) Lived here 51.5249, -0.087364
#1375: Conductor Laureate Hallé Orchestra Sir John Barbirolli C.H. 1899-1970 was born here 51.5208, -0.123
#1376: Bedford College for women University of London founded here in 1849 by Elizabeth Jesser Reid 51.5187, -0.1292
#1414: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins 1807-1889 artist and solicitor, designer of the prehistoric 'monsters' in Crystal Palace Park lived here 51.4165, -0.078599
#1424: Richmal Crompton 1890-1969 authoress lived here 51.3755, 0.03989
#1483: Peter Sellers 1925-1980 Goon and comic actor lived here 1936-1940 51.5794, -0.147254
#1534: The first anaesthetic given in England was administered in a house on this site 19 December 1846 51.5212, -0.1313
#1535: Thomas Clover
#1619: Alan Turing 1912-1954 code breaker lived here from 1945-1947 51.4155, -0.359317
#1620: Henry Irving was the first actor to be knighted (1895). From 1878 - 1902 he managed the Lyceum Theatre. Whilst working at the Lyceum as Irving's acting manager, Bram Stoker wrote Dracula.
#1643: Michael Powell 1905-1990 film director lived here 1951-1971 51.4993, -0.2038
#1644: The site of Tyburn Tree 51.5132, -0.1604
#1652: Sir Douglas Bader 1910-1982 RAF fighter pilot lived here 1955-1982 51.4973, -0.182598
#1690: John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, (1875-1940) 51.5216, -0.145539
#1755: Joe Meek, record producer "The Telstar Man" 1929-1967 pioneer of sound recording technology, lived, worked and died here. 51.5546, -0.114552
#1757: Miriam Moses OBE JP social reformer and first woman Mayor of Stepney 1931-1932 was born here in 1886
#1758: Lee Miller 1907-1977 photographer and Sir Roland Penrose 1900-1984 surrealist lived here 51.5566, -0.169382
#1760: On this site Susan Garth launched London's first antiques market making The Portobello Road an international institution 51.517, -0.20585
#1761: The County Hall, the home of London government from 1922 to 1986. LCC 1889-1965. GLC 1965-1986 51.5008, -0.1193
#1762: The Great Eastern (launched 1858) largest steamship of the century was built here by I.K. Brunel and J. Scott Russell 51.4884, -0.019
#1842: Sid James 1913-1976 Comic Actor Lived here 1956 - 1963 51.5057, -0.290307
#1854: Edward Johnston (1872-1944) master calligrapher lived here 1905-1912 51.4899, -0.2423
#1859: Fred Russell, Father of modern ventriloquism lived here 51.4666, -0.215569
#1869: Site of the 2i's coffee bar (1956-1970) Birthplace of British Rock 'n Roll and the popular music industry 51.5129, -0.1317
#1870: Mrs. Elizabeth Fry 1780-1845 Prison Reformer lived here 1800 to 1809 51.5134, -0.0889
#1895: Spike Milligan KBE hon. CBE 1918-2002 author & artiste lived here 51.5108, -0.189268
#1896: Terry Thomas 51.4997, -0.1807
#1897: From 1955-1974 Spike Milligan, comedian & author, lived at 127 Holden Road formerly on this site 51.619, -0.1864
#1898: Willie Rushton 1937-1996 satirist
#1899: The Last Goon Show of All starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan & Harry Secombe was recorded by the BBC in this Theatre on 30th April 1972 51.5347, -0.138689
#1901: Tony Hancock, comedian 51.5801, -0.1812
#1911: Daniel Mendoza, pugilist, 1764-1836 English Champion who proudly billed himself as 'mendoza the Jew', lived here when writing writing 'The Art of Boxing' 51.5278, -0.056
#1912: This plaque has been erected by the Jewish East End Celebration Society in memory of Daniel Mendoza (1764-1836) the father of scientific boxing, who was buried in a spot nearby 51.5228, -0.0404
#1939: On this site poet & apothecary John Keats, & his friend, the poet, apothecary, surgeon & chemist Henry Stephens shared lodgings while studying at Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals (1815-1816) 51.5048, -0.088491
#1940: Site of St. Thomas' Hospital 1225-1865 The first printed bible in English was produced here 1537 A.-D. 51.5054, -0.089237
#1941: Site of King William Street Underground Station first city terminus 1890-1900 51.5103, -0.086433
#1942: In a house on this site lived William Curtis botanist B. 1746-D.1799 51.5111, -0.085709
#1943: Adjoining this spot stood the Stocks Market 1282-1737 51.5129, -0.089241
#1944: Thomas Gray poet was born in a house on this site "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day" 1716-1771 51.5134, -0.085697
#1945: As a boy Charles Dickens worked here 1824 - 1825 51.5103, -0.124261
#1946: William Terriss 1847-1897 hero of the Adelphi melodramas met his untimely end outside this theatre 16 Dec 1897 51.5106, -0.123556
#1947: Here lived and died Admiral Edward Russell Earl of Orford born 1653 died 1727 51.512, -0.123804
#1956: Sir Alec Guinness In recognition of his unique contribution to British Cinema 51.5127, -0.127164
#1957: Queen's Theatre The old Queen's Theatre occupied this site for just eleven years rom 1867 to 1878 and was renowned in its day, albeit fleetingly, for the distinguished players, including Ellen Terry and Charles Wyndham, who trod its boards 51.5133, -0.124093
#1958: By virtue of its historic interest this pub merits the title a Taylor Walker Heritage Inn The Crown 51.5138, -0.126862
#1959: The Crown 1833 51.514, -0.126993
#1960: Josiah Wedgwood F.R.S. Master Potter (1730-95) here had his London showrooms 1774-1795 51.5143, -0.131055
#1961: Peter Cook 1937-1995 comedian and "only twin" co-founded and ran the Establishment Club here 1961-1964 51.5139, -0.130806
#1962: Dr John Snow (1813-1858) Founding father of Epidemiology. In 1854 his research linked deaths to the water pump near this site and thus determined that cholera is a water borne disease 51.5134, -0.136685
#1963: Impresario Don Arden and mod band "Small Faces" (Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Jimmy Winston) worked here 1965-1967 51.5123, -0.137908
#1964: 1813-1814 Germaine Necker Baronne de Stael-Holstein Lived in a house on this site during the last of her ten years of exile
#1965: Rosa Lewis 1867-1952 Chef de cuisine and hotelier dramatised as 'The Duchess of Duke Street' ruled the Cavendish hotel in a building on this site 51.5083, -0.137147
#1966: Her Majesty's Theatre In 1705 Sir John Vanbrugh built the first of four theatres on this famous site. The second theatre, known variously as 'The King's' and 'Her Majesty's', was the home of Italian Opera, while the present theatre, designed by C J Phipps and opened in 1897, remains a home for major musicals 51.5084, -0.131863
#1967: This theatre was founded in 1897 by Herbert Tree actor & directed by him until his death 1917 51.5084, -0.131863
#1968: Ho Chi Minh 1890-1969 founder of modern Vietnam worked in 1913 at the Carlton Hotel which stood on this site 51.508, -0.131319
#1969: Frederick Winsor 1763-1830 gave the world's first demonstration of street lighting by coal gas, from a retort located here June 1807 51.5064, -0.134579
#1970: In a house on this site lived Nell Gwynne from 1671 - 1687 51.5059, -0.136112
#1971: Pioneer aviator, sailor and author Sir Francis Chichester KBE 1901-1972 single-handed circumnavigator of the world 1966-67 lived here 1944-1972 51.5057, -0.1398
#1972: Here and in neighbouring houses during the first half of the 20th Century there lived several members of the Bloomsbury Group including Virginia Woolf Clive Bell and the Stracheys 51.5244, -0.1302
#1983: On this site lived Sir Herbert Tree 1852-1917 actor manager 51.4974, -0.15904
#1991: Kenneth Williams 1926-1988 comic actor lived here 1935-1956 51.5251, -0.1253
#1992: George Orwell 1903-1950 novelist & essayist lived at 27B 1945 51.5436, -0.09916
#1994: John Lennon 51.4777, -0.053268
#1995: Stanley Holloway 1890-1982 actor and humorist was born here 51.5505, 0.0437
#2001: Wendy Richard M.B.E. 1943-2009 English actress lived here 1948-1953 51.5062, -0.147855
#2002: Eric Morecambe O.B.E. 51.617, -0.167638
#2003: Hattie Jacques 1924-1980 Comedy Actress lived here 1945-1980 51.4895, -0.195705
#2005: Tommy Cooper 51.4288, -0.322478
#2006: Tony Hancock 51.4288, -0.322478
#2007: Irene Handl 51.4288, -0.322478
#2008: Benny Hill 51.4288, -0.322478
#2009: Sid James 51.4288, -0.322478
#2010: David Nixon 51.4288, -0.322478
#2011: Eric Morecambe O.B.E. 51.4288, -0.322478
#2012: Bernie Winters 51.4288, -0.322478
#2013: Harry Worth 51.4288, -0.322478
#2014: Jimmy Jewel 51.4288, -0.322478
#2018: Vivian Stanshall, lived down our street "Into and Outro" 1990-1995 51.5895, -0.142851
#2026: John Adams-Acton (1831-1910) sculptor, lived here 51.5343, -0.178541
#2027: Margery Allingham (1904-1966) writer of crime fiction and creator of Albert Campion lived here 1916-1926 51.5199, -0.184657
#2044: Ignatius Sancho 1729-1780 writer, symbol of humanity of Africans lived and has a grocery shop near this site 51.5021, -0.1265
#2067: Mary Prince 1788-1833 abolitionist and author lived in a house near this site 1829 51.5208, -0.1267
#2121: Edward R. Murrow 1908-1965 American Broadcaster lived here in flat No.5 1938-1946 51.5221, -0.144316
#2122: Florence Nightingale left her hospital on this site for the Crimea October 21st 1854 51.5207, -0.14775
#2123: In a house on this site lived from 1854-1875 Sir Charles Lyell Geologist and from 1876-1882 W.E. Gladstone Statesman 51.5197, -0.1473
#2124: Stephen Pearce 1819 - 1904 Portrait and Equestrian Painter lived here 1856 - 1884 51.5178, -0.14884
#2125: Thomas Woolner RA Sculptor and poet lived here 1860 - 1892 51.5182, -0.149517
#2127: Walter Greaves 1846-1930 artist lived here 1855-1897 51.4818, -0.175
#2128: George Grossmith Junior 1874-1935 actor-manager lived here 51.5174, -0.152627
#2129: Lord Haden-Guest 1877-1960 physician lived here 51.4857, -0.160767
#2130: Eagle House. A fine Queen Anne house built in the dutch style, in 1706, probably for Ferando Mendez, a Royal Physician. The land was originally owned by Walter Raleigh. In Victorian times, it was part of the Holborn Union Workhouse School 51.4256, -0.219965
#2146: 105 Catholic martyrs lost their lives at the Tyburn Gallows near this site 1535-1681 51.5171, -0.1631
#2190: Susanna Annesley, mother of John Wesley, was born 20 January 1669 51.5204, -0.078561
#2191: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) lived here 1868-1873 51.5706, -0.342558
#2192: Laura Ashley (1925-1985) dress designer, began her clothing business here with her husband Bernard 1954-1956 51.4902, -0.143508
#2193: Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith. 1852-1928 Prime Minister. Lived here. 51.5482, -0.177693
#2194: Anna Freud (1895-1982) pioneer of child psychoanalysis, lived here 1938-1982 51.5483, -0.177694
#2195: Richard Clement Attlee (1883-1967) 51.6188, -0.306524
#2197: Admiral Robert Fitzroy 51.4138, -0.084142
#2198: Arthur Lowe 1915-1982 comedy actor lived here 1969-1982 51.5242, -0.177369
#2206: Major General Benedict Arnold, American patriot resided here from 1796 until his death June 14, 1801 51.5187, -0.158243
#2210: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870-1924 founder of the U.S.S.R. stayed in 1905 at 16 Percy Circus which stood on this site 51.5291, -0.11458
#2218: Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 poet & radical thinker & Mary Shelley 1797-1851 author of Frankenstein lived in a house on this site 1815-16 51.526, -0.125961
#2222: William Henry (Bird's Nest) Hunt 51.5244, -0.125034
#2226: John Skinner Prout, artist 51.5245, -0.125088
#2230: Arthur Clough, poet lived here from 1854-1859 51.5387, -0.150747
#2238: Sir Laurence Gomme 1853-1916 clerk to the London County Council, folklorist and historian lived here 1895-1909 51.5229, -0.161767
#2242: Dodie Smith 1895-1990 author and playwright lived here 51.523, -0.161575
#2246: George Grossmith 1847-1912 actor and author lived here 51.5227, -0.161649
#2250: Sir Robert Mayer 1879-1985 philanthropist and patron of music lived here in flat no. 31 51.5186, -0.145776
#2258: Dire Straits first gigged here 1977 51.4786, -0.02293
#2294: Messrs Waite, Rose and Taylor opened the first Waitrose shop here in 1904 51.5084, -0.275212
#2298: William Willett 1856-1915 builder and originator of Daylight Saving Time lived here 1882-1894 51.5065, -0.274124
#2302: This church was built in memory of Spencer Perceval born in 1762, appointed Prime Minister 1812, assassinated 1812, lived from 1808 at Elm Grove a house on this site
#2306: The first number of The Sunday Times was edited at 4 Salisbury Court by Henry White October 20 1822 51.5139, -0.106192
#2310: Site of St Thomas The Apostle Church destroyed by The Great Fire 1666 51.5118, -0.092954
#2361: This plaque honours Sir Roger Moore KBE distinguished actor who starred in The Saint television series (1962-9) and feature films Crossplot (1969) and The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) made at Elstree Studios 51.658, -0.27734
#2365: The Sex Pistols first gig November 6th 1975 'Unplugged' 51.5144, -0.12972
#2389: From this site Guglielmo Marconi made the first public transmission of wireless signals on 27 July 1896 51.5153, -0.098224
#2429: Michael Faraday lived here 1858-1867
#2465: William Shakespeare acted at The Theatre. Built by James Burbage. Plays by Shakespeare were performed here.
#2485: Tony Ray-Jones photographer 1941-1972 lived and worked here 51.5204, -0.159038
#2489: T. S. Eliot 1888-1965 poet, critic, playwright lived here 51.5189, -0.1649
#2497: On this site stood the historic May Fair 51.5064, -0.147532
#2501: Lord Lister (1827-1912) Surgeon lived here 51.5231, -0.145536
#2505: Frederick Denison Maurice 1805-1872 Christian Philosopher and Educationalist live here 1862-1866 51.5239, -0.149066
#2509: Dr. Ernest Jones 1879-1958 Pioneer Psychoanalyst lived here 51.5242, -0.149748
#2513: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Poetess, afterwards wife of Robert Browning, lived here 1838-1846 51.52, -0.149109
#2553: Gustav Holst Composer 1874 - 1934 lived here 1908 - 1913 51.4729, -0.252279
#2557: Vincent Van Gogh the famous painter lived here in 1876 51.4674, -0.329469
#2677: The Rt. Honourable Lord Wandsworth lived here and gave this building and the land on which it stands to the Home for the Aged Poor of the Jewish Faith in memory of his father David Viscount de Stern and his mother Sophia Viscountess de Stern 51.4497, -0.160049
#2734: Baron Carlo Marochetti 1805-1867 Sculptor lived here 1851-1867 51.4919, -0.173725
#2738: Scottish architect and designer of The Glasgow School of Art Charles Rennie Mackintosh worked from this building from 1915 to 1923. His wife and fellow artist, Margaret Macdonald, had the adjoining studio. The unveiling of this plaque marks the centenary of The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art 1909-2009. 51.4851, -0.170477
#2766: The first performances of 'A Woman of no Importance' 19th April 1893 and 'An Ideal Husband' 3rd January 1895 by Oscar Wilde were presented at this theatre This plaque was unveiled by Sir John Gielgud on 3rd January 1995 51.5087, -0.131
#2777: Studio, site of Sir Jacob Epstein sculptor 1929-1959 51.5005, -0.180937
#2781: Sir Moses Montefiore 1784-1885 philanthropist and Jewish leader lived here for sixty years 51.5098, -0.156
#2785: Here lived Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield from 1839 to 1873 51.51, -0.156168
#2789: Benjamin Disraeli Prime Minister in 1868 and 1874-1880, worked in this building 1821-1824 51.5142, -0.09137
#2801: Sir William Walton 1902-1983 composer of Facade, Belshazzar's Feast, the Coronation Marches of 1937 and 1953 lived here
#2805: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 author lived here 51.5574, -0.180443
#2809: The Watch House In the 1830's the newly formed Hampstead Police Force set out on its patrol & nightly watch from this house 51.5572, -0.180591
#2821: William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863 novelist, lived here 51.514, -0.16691
#2825: George Orwell 1903-1950 novelist & political essayist lived here 51.5114, -0.199041
#2829: On this site the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor was founded on 27th April 1908 51.5122, -0.112448
#2833: Site of the Bull and Mouth Inn demolished 1888 51.5164, -0.096954
#2837: Site of Northumberland House 51.5165, -0.096935
#2841: Site of the French Protestant Church demolished 1888 51.5165, -0.096935
#2845: Site of Aldersgate demolished 1761 51.5166, -0.096914
#2889: Denis Johnson (c. 1760 - 1833) From his workshop on this site in 1819 made and sold Britain's first bicycle in its hobby-horse form 51.5144, -0.122299
#2893: Hector Hugh Munro alias Saki 1870-1916 Short story writer lived here 51.5179, -0.1398
#2897: Sir William Nicholson 1872-1949 Painter and Printmaker lived here 1904-1906 51.5549, -0.172383
#2901: On this site stood the house Bell Moor where the historian of Hampstead Thomas J. Barratt lived from 1877 to 1914 51.561, -0.178519
#2905: Born 1881 Editor of Punch 1932-1949 E.V. Knox (Evoe) Essayist and Poet lived here from 1945 until his death in 1971 51.5575, -0.18197
#2909: Sir Walter Besant 1836 - 1901 Novelist and Antiquarian 51.5572, -0.182277
#2913: Thomas Park F.S.A. "The Poetical Antiquary" Born 1759. Died 1834. and his son John James Park Author of the first History of Hampstead Born 1795. Died 1833. Lived here. 51.5555, -0.179532
#2917: Nicholas Saunders 1938-1998 He put Neal's Yard on the map 51.5143, -0.1264
#2921: Monty Python film maker lived here 1976-1987 51.5143, -0.1264
#2925: Colonel R.E.B. Crompton 1845-1940 Electrical Engineer lived and worked here 1891-1939 51.5018, -0.1888
#2929: John Stuart Mill 1806-1873 Philosopher lived here 51.5003, -0.1898
#2937: The world's first cash dispenser was installed here 25 years ago on June 27, 1967 This plaque was given in commemoration by the London borough of Enfield The Worshipful the Mayor of Enfield Councillor Doreen Mardon June 26, 1992 51.6521, -0.082197
#2941: George Cayley engineer & inventor established on this site the Royal Polytechnic Institution 1838-1839 51.5171, -0.142738
#2945: Quintin Hogg educator & Christian benefactor expanded his work by founding The Polytechnic 1881-1882 51.5171, -0.142738
#2993: Winston Churchill (inscription unknown) 51.4986, -0.134994
#2997: Paul de Lamarie (inscription unknown) 51.5119, -0.130726
#3001: The Turks Head Tavern (inscription unknown) 51.5119, -0.130897
#3005: Sir Edward Elgar composer 1857-1934 opened and recorded in these studios on 12th November 1931 51.5323, -0.177624
#3009: The Savoy Theatre (inscription unknown) 51.5101, -0.121044
#3013: Robert Browning (inscription unknown) 51.5209, -0.183494
#3017: Dr Joseph Clover 1825 - 1882 (inscription unknown) 51.5173, -0.143385
#3021: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle author 1859-1930 worked and wrote here 1891 51.5206, -0.149363
#3025: Dr James Yearsley (inscription unknown) 51.5096, -0.138397
#3029: Vera Brittain (inscription unknown) 51.5276, -0.192298
#3033: Professor Sir Alfred Ayer (inscription unknown) 51.5202, -0.160713
#3037: Chief Rabbi Dr Joseph Hertz 51.5312, -0.18211
#3041: Henry Hall OBE (inscription unknown) 51.524, -0.179794
#3045: Jewish Workers' Bund Leader representative to the Polish Parliament-in-exile Szmul 'Artur' Zygielbojm 1895-1943 Took his life in protest at the world's indifference to Nazi extermination of the Jews lived nearby 1942 - 1943 51.5176, -0.188519
#3049: Dame Anna Neagle 51.5084, -0.153473
#3053: Francesco Paolo Tosti (inscription unknown) 51.5167, -0.151267
#3057: Sir Milsom Rees (inscription unknown) 51.521, -0.149555
#3061: Charles Babbage (1791-1871) mathematician & pioneer of the modern computer lived in a house on this site 1839-1871 51.5197, -0.154679
#3065: Keith Clifford Hall (inscription unknown) 51.513, -0.158186
#3069: Sir Michael Balcon 51.4962, -0.128382
#3073: Sir Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears (inscription unknown) 51.5333, -0.170415
#3077: John Peake Knight (inscription unknown) 51.501, -0.125735
#3081: Leo Bonn (inscription unknown) 51.5112, -0.156013
#3085: Arthur Fleischmann KCSG FRBS MD sculptor 1896-1990 lived and worked here 1958-1990 51.5341, -0.186289
#3089: Lady Dorothy Nevill (inscription unknown) 51.5084, -0.146167
#3093: Dr Grantly Dick-Read (inscription unknown) 51.5178, -0.146431
#3097: Ken Colyer (inscription unknown) 51.5119, -0.127961
#3101: On this site, until destroyed by bombing during the winter of 1940, stood an archway and Mayfair's oldest hose. 'The Cottage. 1618 A.D.' (inscription obscured) 51.5059, -0.14919
#3105: Sidney Webb (inscription unknown) 51.5112, -0.128918
#3109: Jack Buchanan actor-manager 1890-1950 lived here 51.5095, -0.152127
#3113: James Purdey the Younger (inscription unknown) 51.5094, -0.15172
#3117: Jane Austen (inscription unknown) 51.5111, -0.123676
#3121: Joseph Mallord William Turner (inscription unknown) 51.5104, -0.123831
#3125: Terence Donovan (inscription unknown) 51.5114, -0.145037
#3129: Juan Pablo Viscardo Y Guzman (inscription unknown) 51.5222, -0.157445
#3133: Site of Theatre Royal Marylebone 1832-1959 also known as the Royal West London Theatre home of the ????? ???? & music hall ???? 51.5232, -0.170653
#3137: RSPCA (inscription unknown) 51.5118, -0.127149
#3141: Olaudah Equiano (inscription unknown) 51.5194, -0.138905
#3145: London Auxiliary Ambulance Service (inscription unknown) 51.5201, -0.146714
#3149: Siegfried Sassoon (inscription unknown) 51.4961, -0.128361
#3153: William Lilly (inscription unknown) 51.5123, -0.116
#3157: Arthur Haygarth (inscription unknown) 51.4914, -0.14273
#3161: Edward Dannreuther Musician 1844-1905 lived here 1873-1894 host to Richard Wagner for 5 weeks in 1877 51.5106, -0.1899
#3165: Sake Dean Mahomed (inscription unknown) 51.5173, -0.15649
#3169: Norwegian Government in Exile (inscription unknown) 51.5019, -0.171256
#3173: Henry Sylvester Williams (inscription unknown) 51.5239, -0.169635
#3181: Dr. Innes Pearse 1889-1978 and Dr. George Scott Williamson 1884-1953 founded the Pioneer Health Centre here in 1926 51.473, -0.054167
#3268: Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle dined here with the publisher of 'Lippincott's Magazine' on 30 August 1889, a meeting that led to 'The Sign Of Four' & 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray' 51.518, -0.144141
#3272: At this place New Years Day, 1881 were spoken these deathless words "You have been to Afghanistan, I perceive." by Mr Sherlock Holmes in greeting to John H. Watson M.D. at their first meeting
#3274: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 practised medicine at no.1 Dumford Street. Unfortunately the partner was an unhappy one and ended with Conan Doyle moving from his medical profession he became more involved in his ??? of 68 stories featuring Sherlock Holmes appeared in 1897. Conan Doyle ??? inspired his later lieterary work 'The Hound Of The Baskervilles' and a cult arose and still flourished today.
#3302: Marie Carmichael Stopes 1880-1958 Write, dramatist and poet. Publicist of the campaign for sexual education. Advocate of family planning and founder of pioneer birth control clinic. Courageous crusader for the rights of women. Lived here during her first marriage to R.R. Gates. 51.5582, -0.174279
#3472: The Bee Gees. Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb composed and stayed here 1968-1980 51.5126, -0.149008
#3476: Charlie Chaplin 1889-1978 lived here
#3478: Charlie Chaplin 1889-1997 film maker and Water Rat lived here 1898-1899 51.4874, -0.109927
#3480: Mark Feld later known as Marc Bolan musician lived here 1947-1962 51.5623, -0.067588
#3482: Max Wall entertainer 1908-1990 was born here
#3488: Charles Fort (1874-1932) American founder of Forteanism, the study of anomalous phenomena lived here 192-1928 51.5248, -0.125028
#3490: The Eagle Tavern, Grecian Theatre Pleasure Grounds, Grecian Saloon & Olympic Theatre stood here 1825-1899. Here Marie Lloyd, music hall artiste made her first public performance in 1885 51.5285, -0.091682
#3630: Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 artist born here 51.489, -0.082042

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