Erection date: 1987
Major General Benedict Arnold, American patriot, resided here from 1796 until his death, June 14, 1801.
"American patriot" is a bit rich, for a turncoat. This is where he died.
2014: the US ambassador, no less, is investigating this plaque. And NBC have some answers.
W1, Gloucester Place, 62
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Benedict Arnold
Soldier and traitor. Born Connecticut. In the American War of Independence Ar...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Benedict Arnold
Tenuously connected to Benedict Arnold. From NBC: "An amateur historian, Arn...
This 1897 OS map shows that Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum occupied the land between this alley and Bethnal Green Gardens. The Warburton fa...
Above the door on the left is inscribed "1892". On the south face of this building are 4 inscribed stones laid by (left to right) JC Ran...
The smaller plaque is between the two posts on the right of the photograph.
Greater London Council Randolph Caldecott, 1846 - 1886, artist and book illustrator, lived here.
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