Novelist. Born Calcutta, full name William Makepeace Thackeray. Best known for the novel: Vanity Fair. Died suddenly from a stroke having returned home to Onslow Square after dining out. He was found dead the next morning so the date of death is sometimes given as 24th. This was apparently unexpected despite him being overweight, a big eater and an exercise-avoider. It was estimated that 7,000 people attended his funeral.
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William Thackeray
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Bradbury & Evans
Oh, dear, what is happening to the City plaques? This one looks really cheap...
Chiswick Square
The houses each side were built about 1680. Boston House built in 1740, on th...
CI - 8 - Books
This carving depicts the two Brontë sisters meeting Thackeray, but rather fai...
Rules Restaurant 2
Rules®. London's oldest restaurant. In the year Napoleon opened his campaign ...
Tom Cribb Public House
Tom Cribb Tom Cribb was the British bare-knuckle boxing champion between 1809...
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Sir Thomas More
Born Milk Street. In conflict with Henry VIII over religion he was imprisoned in the tower, found guilty of treason and beheaded on Tower Hill. Final words: "The King's good servant, but God's Firs...
Person, Execution, Literature, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous
14 memorials
Patrick Hamilton
Novelist and playwright. Born Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton at Dale House, Hassocks, Sussex. He suffered multiple injuries when hit by a drunken driver in 1932. This may well have had a bearing o...
1 memorial
Edward Morgan Forster, OM, CH.
Novelist, known professionally as E. M. Forster. He was born at 6 Melcombe Place (demolished) on 1 January 1879 and his birth was registered as Henry Morgan Forster in the 1st quarter of 1879 in th...
1 memorial
Charlotte Brontë
Novelist and poet. Born Yorkshire, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters. Novels include: Jane Eyre, Shirley. To avoid gender prejudice she and her sisters, Emily and Anne published first under...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Hamleys
W1, Regent Street, Hamleys, 188 - 196
Sorry about the poor picture of the shop but when we visited there was a solid wall of buses down Regent Street.
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Gordon Campbell VC
CR9, Katharine Street, Clock Tower
{Beneath a representation of a Victoria Cross medal:} Commander Gordon Campbell, Royal Navy, 17th February 1917.
War served | WW1
1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Robert Waithman - obelisk
EC4, Salisbury Court
Originally erected near Waithman's shop in Fleet Street at its junction with Farringdon Street, this obelisk was moved in 1951 to Barthol...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Henry Doubleday
CM16, High Street Epping, 271
The plaque is at the side of the building, in Buttercross Lane.
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
St Luke's Church West Norwood
Designed by Francis Octavius Bedford. Unusually it is orientated north-south instead of east-west. This is because of a stipulation at the time that no building in Lower Norwood should be built wit...
2 memorials