Erection date: 28/4/2017
This plaque was unveiled in memory of Lawrence Sheriff, founder of Rugby School in 1567 and thus of Lawrence Sheriff School, whose bequest of "eight acres of pasture", now known as The Rugby Estate, continues to reflect the spirit of his charitable endowment.
Unveiled by A. N. Wilson, an historian educated at Rugby, as part of the 450th anniversary celebrations.
WC1, Rugby Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rugby Estate
Probably born in or near Rugby, 1515-16. In 1534 he went to London as an appr...
An area of land in Holborn owned by Rugby School. Lawrence Sheriff acquired t...
C. S. Forester, 1899 - 1966, novelist, lived here. English Heritage
The wooden cross atop the building supports a neon cross, wired to an electrical box so rusty that we doubt it still lights the way for N...
Keynes's brother Geoffrey also lived here. The house was occupied by at least some of the Bloomsburies and Keyneses, 1911-15. Grant and K...
In 1912 this doorstep was the site of an assassination attempt. Henry arrived home to be met by a gunman, a disgruntled cab driver who'd...
The names on this plaque are difficult to read so take our transcription as tentative.
Borough of Wood Green. King George VI Memorial Garden. This garden was provided by public subscription as a memorial to his late Majesty,...
Milton sitting on the left; Shakespeare on the right; Carnegie's cartouche is inside the porch, above the door. Erected in 1905, Carnegi...
Born in Upton, Essex. Died in Walmer, Kent. Pioneer in the use of antiseptics in surgery. The medical historian, Ruth Richardson, has an interesting piece in the Lancet reporting on how Agnes his w...
Born in Ottawa. Ottawa's longest serving mayor, 1936 to 1948. The photo shows him in 1946 the year of the planting of the tree that he gifted but we don't think he was at the event.
