Father of Charles Dickens, was imprisoned in Marshalsea for debt from February to March (or May, according to Wikipedia) 1824. His wife Elizabeth and 4 youngest children joined him. It was only the death of his mother, and the subsequent inheritance that effected their release. He is said to be the model for his son's Mr Micawber in Great Expectations.
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John Dickens
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Marshalsea 6 - stone - John Dickens
John Dickens, the father of Charles Dickens, was imprisoned here for debt fro...
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War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Lao She
Chinese novelist and dramatist. Born Beijing as Shu Qingchun. Lao She was his pen name. Lectured at what is now SOAS 1924 - 9. During this time he discovered Dickens and began his own writing. Best...
1 memorial
Edgar Cecil Rose
Soldier in the Royal Irish Fusiliers killed in France. Andrew Behan has researched Rose: Lance Corporal Edgar Cecil Rose was born in August 1891 in the parish of St Mary's, Paddington, the son of ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Mrs Gay Christiansen
Founder of the Kensington Society, lived at 18 Kensington Square. When she failed to stop the replacement of some houses in Young Street with an aggressively modern multi-storey car park she formed...
1 memorial
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
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