Erection date: 1885
Madame D'Arblay (Fanny Burney), authoress, lived here. Born 1752. Died 1840.
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Erected by the Society of Arts
Erected in 1885 this is the oldest surviving "blue" plaque to a woman.
W1, Bolton Street, 11
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Fanny Burney
Born King's Lynn, Norfolk, father was Dr Charles Burney. Diarist, novelist:...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Fanny Burney
Founded by William Shipley as the "Society of Arts" in Rawthmell's Coffee Hou...
1907 was the year that a regular transatlantic radio-telegraph service begun and the year that Marconi was recognised with a Nobel Prize....
Dame Sheila Sherlock, MD, FRS, 1918 - 2001, world authority on the liver, professor of medicine, lived here 1970 - 2001. City of Westminster
This quality plaque. the first to be erected on the site, was subsequently stolen in February 2010. We got there too late so must thank G...
City of Westminster Sir Michael Balcon, 1896 - 1977, film maker, lived here, 1927 - 1939.
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