Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Died Weimar.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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G. K. Chesterton
Writer. Born 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, as Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Best known for the Father Brown stories. He often wrote about religion and in 1922 converted to Roman Catholicism. In l...
4 memorials
Tokyo Sherlock Holmes Society
Active in 1953. Initiated by Richard Hughes and also known as the Baritsu Chapter.
1 memorial
Bram Stoker
Novelist and theatre manager. Born Dublin. Came to London in 1878 with his new wife Florence Balcombe, previously Oscar Wilde's squeeze. Wrote Dracula whilst he was Irving’s acting manager at the ...
3 memorials
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
Joseph Conrad
Novelist, considered one of the greatest writers in English, despite it not being his mother-tongue. Born into a noble Polish family in what is now Ukraine. Working on ships he came to Britain in 1...
2 memorials
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London Borough of Haringey
Created in 1965 by the amalgamation of three former boroughs: Hornsey, Wood Green and Tottenham. 2007 - 10, Haringey Council ran its own historic plaques scheme to commemorate notable or famous lo...
18 memorials
2 memorials
Social Democratic Federation
Founded by Henry Hyndman in 1884, this was the forerunner of the British Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain.
1 memorial
Hammersmith and Fulham plaque erectors
We've found a number of plaques in a similar and distinctive style around the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, but we have not been able to determine who erects them. If it's the council they ar...
6 memorials
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