Erection date: /1/2018
William Somerset Maugham 1874 - 1965
Novelist and playwright lived here 1919 - 1923
"To acquire a habit for reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."
City of Westminster
W1, Wyndham Place, 2
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
W. S. Maugham - Wyndham Place
Playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born of British parents in Paris...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
W. S. Maugham - Wyndham Place
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Herbert Gribble, 1847 - 1894, architect of the Oratory Church, lived here between 1880 - 82.
The plaque is in a sheltered area just to the left of our main photograph. The quotation is an edited version of Isaiah 35:1, “The wilder...
There was some friction over this memorial. It is close to the site of Lee Rigby's murder and initially Greenwich Council was opposed to ...
Walter J. Macqueen-Pope 1888 - 1960 theatre manager and historian lived here. Historic Buildings of the London Borough of Haringey
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