Plaque

Sir Charles Vyner Brooke

Inscription

Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, 1874 - 1963, last Rajah of Sarawak, lived here.
Greater London Council

Site: Sir Charles Vyner Brooke (1 memorial)

W2, Albion Street, 13

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Charles Vyner Brooke

Subjects commemorated i

Sir (Charles) Vyner Brooke

Third and last white Rajah of  Sarawak.  Born Albemarle Street.  Died at his ...

Read More

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Charles Vyner Brooke

Created by i

Greater London Council

Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...

Read More

Nearby Memorials

Coroner's Court, Westminster - keystone

Coroner's Court, Westminster - keystone

SW1, Horseferry Road, 65

This delicate monogram can be decoded to represent: St Margaret and St John, Westminster, an early version of Westminster Council.

1 subject commemorated
MDCLXVI

MDCLXVI

EC3, Monument Street

The building engulfed in flames is Old St Paul's Cathedral.  Londonist reports that this plaque is placed at the spot which historians n...

2 subjects commemorated
General Gordon's birth place - lost plaque, oblong

General Gordon's birth place - lost plaque, oblong

SE18, Woolwich Common, 29

At our request Rosemary and Richard Christophers of The Lightbox, previously Woking Museum, put paid to the rumour that the plaque is hel...

1 subject commemorated
Chelsea Temperance Society - McCurrey

Chelsea Temperance Society - McCurrey

SW3, Pond Place, 23

There are two stone plaques either side of the entrance, low on the wall, and two, rather classier, plaques in the entrance lobby. Readi...

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Hertha Ayrton

Hertha Ayrton

W2, Norfolk Square, 41

Hertha Ayrton, 1854 - 1923, physicist, lived here, 1903 - 1923. English Heritage 

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

Previously viewed

Palace Theatre - stage door

Palace Theatre - stage door

W1, Greek Street, Palace Theatre

Palace Theatre - Stage Entrance The world's greatest artistes have passed and will pass through these doors.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
H. Ackroyd
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
W. Allard
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Thomas Faryner and his shop

Thomas Faryner and his shop

Born 1615-6, Thomas Faryner (or Farriner) joined the Baker's Company in 1637, and by 1649 had his own bakery/shop/home on Pudding Lane. It seems that someone failed properly to extinguish a fire in...

Building, Food & Drink, Tragedy

3 memorials
Sir Herbert Baker and Scott

Sir Herbert Baker and Scott

Architects.  Later Vernon Helbing joined the firm. Sir Herbert Baker was one of the four principal architects of the Imperial War Graves Commission, See Blomfield for the others.

Group, Architecture

1 memorial