British benevolent fund for professional published authors in financial difficulties. The Prince Regent supported it by providing premises at 36 Gerrard Street.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Royal Literary Fund
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David Williams
David Williams, 1738 - 1816, founder of The Royal Literary Fund, 1790, reside...
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Thomas Park F.S.A.
"The poetical antiquary", bibliographer and engraver. He published his own verse but mainly he edited historical and literary works. Father of John James Park.
1 memorial
Khalil Gibran
Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in what is now Lebanon, emigrated as a young man with his family to US. Best known for The Prophet, 1923, popular in the 60s.
1 memorial
Enid Bagnold
Novelist and playwright. Born Enid Algerine Bagnold at Borstal Cottage, Rochester, Kent. She spent several years of her childhood in Jamaica, where her father, a military engineer had been posted. ...
1 memorial
Bruce Bairnsfather
Cartoonist. WW1 artist. Born Muree, India. He was serving on the western front at the time of the Christmas Truce of 1914 and drew and wrote about it. An article in the Malvern Gazette 21/9/11, pro...
Person, Art, Literature, France, India
1 memorial
James Anthony Froude
Historian. novelist and biographer. Born at Dartington Rectory, Devon. He intended to become a clergyman, but his doubts expressed in his novel 'The Nemesis of Faith' changed his mind and he turned...
1 memorial
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Christ Church Rangers Football Club
Boys' football club founded at the Christ Church Mission in Ponsard Road, West London. It merged with the St Jude's Institute club in 1886, to form Queen's Park Rangers.
1 memorial
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