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
Henry Hall, 1898 - 1989, dance band leader and broadcaster, lived here 1932 - 1959. English Heritage
Sir Charles Santley (1834 - 1922) singer, lived and died here. L.C.C.
The plaque is between the windows on the ground and first floor.
Lord Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, 1788 - 1855, Commander during the Crimean War, lived here. L.C.C.
Greater London Council Baron Friedrich von Hügel, 1852 - 1925, theologian lived here, 1882 - 1903.
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