John Christopher Smith, Handel's friend and secretary, 1712 - 1763, lived and died here.
The dates on the plaque confuse Smith (1712 - 1795) with his father, Johann Christoph Schmidt (1683–1762/3), also confusingly later known as John Christopher Smith.
W1, Carlisle Street, 6
SPAB provides an interesting history of this house and the area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Christopher Smith
Composer. Born Ansbach, Germany. Following his father he arrived in London in...
The plaque is located in the supposed area of Chaplin's birth.
The plaque names only 6 relief panels but there are 7, music being represented twice.
It's not possible to read all the text but the 1345 date confirms that our (not very difficult) guess is probably correct - that the Gard...
Keynes's brother Geoffrey also lived here. The house was occupied by at least some of the Bloomsburies and Keyneses, 1911-15. Grant and K...
A.J.P. Taylor 1906 - 1990, historian and broadcaster lived here. English Heritage
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