Cobden House
This block was built in 1958 by the London County Council and was named after Richard Cobden (1804 - 1865), who was a liberal statesman and a member of the anti-corn laws league.
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E2, Nelson Gardens
See St Peter's Close. As far as we can discover Richard Cobden had no particular association with this area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Cobden House
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
Political economist and Liberal MP. Born near Midhurst, Sussex, into a large ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Cobden House
THCH is a charitable housing provider managing over 3,000 homes exclusively i...
This plaque was dedicated in the Silver Jubilee Year of Her Reign. To Her Majesty, The Queen, who was born here on April 21st 1926. {In...
London County Council Stéphane Mallarmé, 1842 - 1898, poet, stayed here in 1863.
This plaque is actually composed of two stones.
Greater London Council Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, 1833 - 1912, father of lawn tennis, lived here.
Odd that the plaque gives the 19th and not the 18th as the date.
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