Originated in the front room of John Gatenbys' family home in Highgate, during a discussion concerning Peter Seller's nearby childhood home. Out of this the 'Dead Comics Society' was born and their first plaque was for Sellers. 1995 the name was changed to 'British Comedy Society'. At one point we thought the organisation had merged with the Heritage Foundation but that seems not to be the case. Our information comes from the BCS website.
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British Comedy Society / Dead Comics Society
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Arthur Haynes
Arthur Haynes, 1914 - 1966, comedian and King Rat, lived here 1961 - 1966. Th...
Arthur Lowe
Arthur Lowe, 1915 - 1982, comedy actor, lived here, 1969 - 1982. The Dead Co...
Benny Hill - SW7
Benny Hill, 1922-1992, comedian, lived here 1960-1986, The Dead Comics Society.
Charlie Chaplin - Methley Street
Charlie Chaplin, 1889-1977, film maker and Water Rat, lived here, 1898-1899, ...
Frankie Howerd
Frankie Howerd OBE, 1917 - 1992, comedian lived here, 1966 - 1992. The Dead C...
Other Subjects
Noel Falconer Filmer
Noel Falconer Filmer is 2nd from the right of the nine boys standing in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 13 December 1897, the seventh of the eleven children of John Apps Budds Fi...
2 memorials
Israel Renson
The National Archives describe Renson as 'chemist and local historian" and give four paragraphs of his life story. In brief: of Russian descent, born in Scarborough Street E1, but in 1910 the famil...
1 memorial
Rhaune Laslett-O'Brien
Born as Freda Pulverness in Stepney but lived most of her life in and around West London. After WW2 the housing conditions, the poverty and the racial mix in Notting Hill brought out her skills as...
1 memorial
United Wards Club of the City of London
Both the picture source website and the City of London explain what this is. It was founded at The Bell, Carter Lane by Joseph Newbon.
1 memorial
Royal Tunbridge Wells fourth centenary
The town was founded when Dudley, Lord North (1602-77) discovered a mineral spring in the area, and after drinking the water found his ill-health had improved. He persuaded his friends to try it an...
1 memorial
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Greenwich Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground
SE10, Romney Road, Devonport House burial ground
The names on the monument are of men whose claim to immortality is their role in running the Hospital rather than any heroic deed. Most ...
21 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Sailors buried in the Devonport House burial ground
"Gallant officers and men of the Royal Navy and Marines to the number of about twenty thousand, formerly inmates of the Royal Hospital Greenwich, whose remains were interred in this cemetery betwee...
1 memorial
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