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.
W1, Soho Square, 31-32
The lettering is above the right-most potted scrub. Incidentally, the photograph of the building catches a typical London sight - a van driver trying to escape before the uniformed warden completes his parking ticket.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Botanists
The mews at the back of the property contained his studio and foundry, where he cast, amongst other works, Landseer's bronze lions for th...
The wall this plaque is on possibly belongs to the Inter-Continental Hotel but there was another building here in 1950; probably a hotel ...
Harold Bride 1890 - 1956, wireless operator aboard RMS Titanic lived here, 1903 - 1922. The London Borough of Bromley.
Collecting gravestones is not part of our mission, but we have transcribed the gravestone as best we can - there may be mis-readings.
In Chisholm's time this house was number 3 Charlton Crescent and was her headquarters in England.
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