Marie Carmichael Stopes, 1880 - 1958. Writer, dramatist and poet. Publicist of the campaign for sexual education. Advocate of family planning and founder of pioneer birth control clinic. Courageous crusader for the rights of women. Lived here during her first marriage to R.R. Gates.
Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
NW3, Well Walk, 14
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Marie Stopes - NW3
Husband to Marie Stopes, botanist and geneticist. Born Nova Scotia, Canada. ...
Born in Edinburgh. Scientist, writer, dramatist and poet. Publicist of the ca...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Marie Stopes - NW3
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has b...
The Close just south of this spot has been named Nina Mackay Close. Incidentally, opposite the southern end of Arthingworth Street there...
The Freemasons commissioned this memorial to mark the 300th anniversary of The United Grand Lodge of England in 2017 and the centenary of...
The WW2 plaque is very high up on the wall behind the arches and can only be read from a zoomed-in photo. The naming is confusing. This ...
2021: Spitalfields Life has a photo-filled post showing the interior of this house which looks unchanged since Garthwaite left.
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 - 1797, author of 'A Vindication of the Right of Women', pioneer of women's rights and mother of Mary Shelley. ...
Entrepreneur and agricultural scientist. Born at Rothamsted, Hertfordshire. He founded an experimental farm that eventually became the Rothamsted Experimental Station, and developed a superphosphat...
As so often happens, this group was formed to campaign against the proposed demolition of something, in this case Albert Bridge. Thankfully their campaign was successful and they have gone on to si...
Born Germany. Considered the founder of organic chemistry and "father of the fertilizer industry". He also was behind the company that trademarked the Oxo cube and made the invention of Marmite p...
The brothers Lawrence and Sebastian Gahagan, sculptors of note in London between 1760 and 1820, were Irishmen called Geoghegan at home.
Founder and president of the first Board of Agriculture. Born Scotland into family of the Earls of Caithness. 1780 entered the House of Commons. Promoted a scientific and statistical approach to ag...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration, Science, Scotland
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