John Christopher Smith, Handel's friend and secretary, 1712 - 1763, lived and died here.
The dates on the plaque confuse Smith (1712 - 1795) with his father, Johann Christoph Schmidt (1683–1762/3), also confusingly later known as John Christopher Smith.
W1, Carlisle Street, 6
SPAB provides an interesting history of this house and the area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Christopher Smith
Composer. Born Ansbach, Germany. Following his father he arrived in London in...
John Heartfield, 1891 - 1968, master of political photomontage, lived here, 1938 - 1943. English Heritage
Here lived Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield, born 1633 : died 1713, also Philip, third Earl and Philip Dorner, fourth Earl of Chesterf...
Site of St Leonard Eastcheap, destroyed in the Great Fire 1666. The Corporation of the City of London
See Musee de la Resistance for more information on this memorial (in French).
The first quotation is adapted from 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon The second quotation is adapted from Wilfred Owen's 'Spring Offen...
Comedy actor. Born 13 Leith Mansions, Paddington and grew up in St John's Wood. Began acting in her mid thirties and was almost never out of work, giving cameo performances in many British films ...
Second wife of Henry VIII and so Queen of England, 1533 to 1536. Though married to Catherine of Aragon, Henry developed a passion for one of her maids of honour, Anne, and so began the whole horri...
Specialists in conserving, protecting and reinstating stone, plaster etc. Originally founded for the preservation of the National Trust buildings.
The Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA) is the state's oldest and most diverse professional library organization serving libraries, library employees, library trustees, and Friends of the Libra...
