Erection date: 23/3/2011
English Heritage
Sir Basil Spence, 1907-1976, architect, lived and worked here.
N1, Canonbury Place, 1
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Basil Spence
Architect. Born Basil Urwin Spence in Bombay. He studied at the Edinburgh Col...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Basil Spence
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Writer and physician. Born France, between 1483 and 1494, but probably November 1494. Became a monk and studied Latin and Greek, then left to study medicine. Died Paris.
Person, Literature, Medicine, Politics & Administration, Religion, France
Painter and sculptor especially of animals. Born 88 Queen Anne Street East, Marylebone. Died at home, 18 St John's Wood Road.
Astronomer and journal editor, born at Rugby. In 1865 Lockyer and his family moved to a house (no longer extant) near Swiss Cottage. Here, using a special spectroscope to examine the sun, he discov...
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