City of Westminster
Site of the Mont Blanc Restaurant where leading writers, including Belloc, Chesterton, Conrad and Galsworthy met regularly in the early years of the 20th century.
W1, Gerrard Street, 16
Built in 1730.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Mont Blanc restaurant
Poet, essayist and historian. Born France. Catholic. His works include 'Caut...
Writer. Born 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, as Gilbert Keith Chesterton....
Novelist, considered one of the greatest writers in English, despite it not b...
Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literatu...
Opened sometime early in the 20th century by Alphonse Pasquier. Edward Garnet...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Mont Blanc restaurant
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Whitecross Debtors' Prison, 1813 - 1870 Warm-hearted Nell Gwynne, in her will, desired her natural son, the Duke of St. Albans, to lay ou...
Charles McCall, DAEdin, ROI, NEAC, 1907-1989, artist, lived and died here.
Actor, Henry Irving, (John Henry Brodribb), 1838 - 1905, lived on this site, 1881 - 1889.
London County Council Edgar Wallace, 1875-1932, writer, lived here.
The plaque is by the Belgrave Place entrance to the building.
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