Plaque

Raymond Chandler

Erection date: 7/10/2014

Inscription

Raymond Chandler, 1888 - 1959, writer, lived here.
English Heritage

Site: Raymond Chandler (1 memorial)

SE19, Auckland Road, Mount Cyra, 110

Chandler lived here, 1900 to 1905, while a day pupil at nearby Dulwich College, overlapping by a term, but never meeting, with fellow student P. G. Wodehouse.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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