Daniel Mendoza, pugilist, 1764 - 1836, English champion who proudly billed himself as 'Mendoza the Jew', lived here when writing 'The Art of Boxing'.
Tower Hamlets Environment Trust
E2, Paradise Row, 3
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Daniel Mendoza
Pugilist. Born in the Aldgate parish, date uncertain (possibly 1765). Champi...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Daniel Mendoza
This overtly modern facade is shown on the English Heritage map as part of the Scheduled Ancient Monument which includes the more traditi...
DL stands for Deputy Lieutenant (of the County of Buckinghamshire).
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, 1844 - 1889, priest and poet, lived in Oakhill Park 1852 - 1863. "The World is charged with the grandeur of Go...
Charles and his wife Anna came to London and lived at first 15 and then 39A Marchmont Street so that he could live close while he read hi...
Unless we missed it, there is no blue plaque for Bishops Gate (nor for the river gates Billings and Dow), though we have found them for t...
Unveiled by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley. Behind this plaque is an interesting detective story, related in Dr Ruth Richardson's book: 'Dicke...
Died in an accident at St Magnus House. Lived in Downham, Bromley.
Reigned: 1660 - 1685. Born at St James's Palace. The son of the beheaded Charles I, he was the king "restored" to the throne after the civil war. Married Catherine of Braganza in 1662 but she prod...
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