Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, 1844 - 1889, priest and poet, lived in Oakhill Park 1852 - 1863.
"The World is charged with the grandeur of God"
Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
NW3, Oak Hill Way, Oakhill House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Gerard Manley Hopkins - NW3
Poet and Jesuit priest. Born 87 The Grove, Stratford, of Welsh ancestry. 1852...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins - NW3
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has b...
There is another pavement plaque for him in SE16 which was unveiled on the same day.
The wording of this plaque is almost identical to that on the one that the Queen unveiled, plaque 2.
The Henriette Raphael Nurses' Home, erected by Henry Lewis Raphael in memory of his wife, opened 1902.
The reports of the fund-raising campaign for this plaque named "historian Geoff Simmons" and it was said that the plaque would be "unveil...
Guy Street Park Originally open fields, the land on which most of Guy Street Park stands belonged to Guy's Hospitial in the 18th century....
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