in 1532 Sir William Portman of Somerset, Lord Chief Justice to Henry VIII acquired land covering an area of 270 acres stretching from Oxford Street to Regents Canal. A large part of this land, now known as the Portman estate, is still owned by the Portman family. The current head of the family is the 10th Viscount Portman, born 1958.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Portman family
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Portman Square Garden
This rather dull plaque is in the garden close to the Hamilton fountain.
Other Subjects
Sir William Dundas
A landowner in Richmond, Surrey, who built Queensberry House. His father, the first baronet, (Sir David Dundas, d.1826) was appointed Sergeant Surgeon to King George III in 1792.
1 memorial
Fawcett house in Vauxhall
From Friends of Vauxhall Park: "In 1725 Edward Lovibond of St James, Clerkenwell, bought the Carroun estate. The Lovibonds let part of the estate, subsequently known as The Lawn, to James Gubbins a...
1 memorial
Blake's house SE1
Blake lived here with his wife, Catherine, throughout the 1790s. The photograph was taken in about 1913 and shows that it had already been honoured with a plaque. Despite this the house, with the r...
2 memorials
1 memorial
B. E. Nightingale
Benjamin Ebenezer Nightingale was born in 1837 in Lambeth, Surrey. He was a son of Benjamin Ebenezer Nightingale (1803-1868) and Margaret Nightingale née Dickinson (1811-1887). On 7 January 1838 he...
2 memorials
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Gilbert Bayes
NW6, Greville Place, 4
Gilbert Bayes, 1872 - 1953, sculptor, lived here 1931 - 1953. English Heritage
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Francis Crick
SW1, St George's Square, 56
Francis Crick, O.M. F.R.S., 1916 - 2004, eminent scientist, Nobel laureate, discoverer of the structure of D.N.A. & the genetic code,...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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