These two houses were the Portuguese Embassy, 1724 - 1747. The Marquess of Pombal, Portuguese Statesman Ambassador, 1739 - 1744, lived here.
Greater London Council
W1, Golden Square, 23-4
Behind these houses is a church which was first built as a Catholic chapel to serve this Embassy.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Portuguese Embassy
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal and 1st Count of Oei...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Portuguese Embassy
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
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Site of the Bull and Mouth Inn, demolished 1888. The Corporation of the City of London
At this date the Chief of Staff was Bramwell Booth.
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
Edmund Burke, author and statesman, lived here. B. 1729. D. 1797
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