1845

Reverend Sydney Smith

Wit, for example "I never read a book before reviewing
it; it prejudices a man so."
Born Woodford, London. Died at home in Green Street, London.

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Reverend Sydney Smith

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St George's, Bloomsbury

The Parish Church of St Georges Bloomsbury Built 1720 - 30. Architect: Nicho...

Sydney Smith

LCC Sydney Smith, 1771 - 1845, author and wit, lived here.

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Born 3 Arlington Street. Writer, famed for his collaborations with his sister Edith and brother Sacheverell. He wrote the libretto for Sir William Walton’s oratorio, Belshazzar’s Feast. Died Monteg...

Person, Literature, Music / songs, Italy

3 memorials

Major Byron F. Caws

Believed to have assisted Fowler in his work on the Concise Oxford Dictionary. The Latin on the memorial, 'castigavit et emendavit', translates as “he corrected and improved“, which is quite an ac...

Person, Architecture, Armed Forces, Engineering, Literature

1 memorial

E.F. Benson

Edward Frederic. Writer best know for the Mapp and Lucia series set in the village of Tilling, actually Rye, which Benson first visited to see Henry James who was staying there. Born Wellington C...

Person, Literature

1 memorial

Mary Shelley

Born in London, at the Polygon building in Somers Town. Parents: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Eleven days after her birth her mother died. Most famous for writing "Frankenstein". A freq...

Person, Literature, Seriously Famous

4 memorials

La Société d'Études Staëliennes

Group, Literature

1 memorial

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William, Lord Hastings

An important man in the court of Edward IV, rising to the position of Lord Chamberlain. On the king’s death he supported his brother, the later Richard III, but something was not to Richard’s liki...

Person, Execution, Politics & Administration

2 memorials