These two houses were the Portuguese Embassy, 1724 - 1747. The Marquess of Pombal, Portuguese Statesman Ambassador, 1739 - 1744, lived here.
Greater London Council
W1, Golden Square, 23-4
Behind these houses is a church which was first built as a Catholic chapel to serve this Embassy.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Portuguese Embassy
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal and 1st Count of Oei...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Portuguese Embassy
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
Unusually neither of the memorials is visible in our photo of the location, but we hope you agree that the house is worthy of a picture f...
John William Waterhouse, 1849 - 1917, painter, lived here, 1900-1917. English Heritage
The flower on the plaque looks to us like a chrysanthemum but we don't know if it has any special significance.
Imperial College has had a 'Huxley Building' for a long time. The first was erected on Exhibition Road in 1867. In 1974-7 that was made...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811 - 1863, novelist, lived here.
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