In 1631 commissioned Inigo Jones to build the residential square at Covent Garden, with a piazza at the centre.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford
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Bedford's Chiswick wall
Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society confirms our link to the 4th Earl.
Covent Garden Market
Large bronze relief "Fruit Porter Bronze", unveiled October 2006 by Mayor of ...
Other Subjects
Nathaniel Acton
Nathaniel Acton was a wealthy successful Suffolk landowner. British History Online describes the land he owned in and around Shoreditch, stretching into Hackney and Bethnal Green. The painting is b...
1 memorial
British Land
From their website (the picture source): "founded in 1856 by three liberal MPs as a mechanism for expanding the field of voters eligible to elect Members of Parliament". We don't understand but si...
1 memorial
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Landowner. Maternal grandfather Queen Elizabeth II. Born Lowndes Square. Married Nina Cecilie Cavendish-Bentinck. Their ninth child became the Queen Mother. Died Glamis, Scotland.
1 memorial
William Shurmur
Builder, active in 1891. The Freemason, Dec. 6, 1890: Page 3 reports on the Consecration of the William Shurmur Lodge, No. 2374: "A lodge, named after Bro. William Shurmur, the Provincial Grand Tr...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Sir Godfrey Kneller
Portrait painter. His set of portraits of Kit-Cat Club members is on display in the National Portrait Gallery.
1 memorial
Fountain Tavern
Here the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met, using the title of the Fountain Club. Since the Kit-Cat Club, Walpole's supporters, also met here, we have to trust that the landlord arrange...
Building, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Politics & Administration
2 memorials
Sir Robert Walpole
First Prime Minister of Great Britain. An early political victim of satire, the target of Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Hogarth and Thomas Gay. Walpole responded by setting up the office of the...
3 memorials
Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland
Daughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Nicknamed "Little Whig" and the subject of one of the famous Kit-Kat Club toasts.
1 memorial
Brian Epstein
Beatles' manager and impresario. Born Liverpool. Homosexual and artistic, briefly studied at RADA, then joined the family retail business. Involved in the local music scene he spotted the Beatles a...
3 memorials
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