Writer and novelist. Born at 14 John Street, Poplar. He wrote detective novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. His best known work was 'A Child of the Jago', set in a fictitious area. He also collected Japanese art and published several works on the subject. Died at High Barn, Amersham Road, Chalfont St Peter.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Arthur Morrison
In Salcombe House near this site, lived Arthur Morrison (1863 - 1945) author,...
Artist specialising in birds. Born 92 Great Portland Street. Died at home, 5 St Edmund's Terrace, Regent's Park. The picture is a self-portrait.
A series of books created by the illusrator Cicely Mary Barker. The first one was published in 1923
Born as Chaim Jacob Lipchitz Druskieniki, Lithuania. Died on the island of Capri and was buried on Har Hamenuhot, Jerusalem. External website provides a good chronology and pictures of some works .
Painter. Born Chatham in Kent. Died in a lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, outside London of "an extensive disease of the lungs".
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