UK, England, London, Marchmont Association Plaques Historical Markers

By Andrew Ruppenstein, March 16, 2018

Robert Owen Marker - Wide View

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1 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden — Robert Owen — 1771-1858 —

On Burton Place at Burton Street on Burton Place.

Father of the Co-operative movement lived here 1832-1840 — — Map (db m109553) HM

2 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden — Stella & Fanny —

On Wakefield Street just south of Tavistock Place.

Ernest BOULTON 1847-1904 Frederick PARK 1846-1881 'Stella & Fanny' Victorian cross-dressers lodged at 13 Wakefield Street on this site 1868-1870 — — Map (db m115489) HM

3 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Bloomsbury — Charles Fort — 1874 - 1932 —

On Marchmont Street just south of Tavistock Place, on the right when traveling south.

American Writer and founder of Forteanism, the study of anomalous phenomena Lived here 1921-1928 — — Map (db m117081) HM

4 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Bloomsbury — Dorothy Richardson — 1873-1957 —

On Woburn Walk just east of Upper Woburn Place, on the left when traveling west.

Writer lived here 1905-1906 — — Map (db m116497) HM

5 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Bloomsbury — Emmeline Pankhurst — 1858-1928 —

On Bernard Street, on the right when traveling east.

Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia Founders of the Suffragette Movement lived in a house on this site 1888-1893 — — Map (db m239964) HM

6 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Bloomsbury — George Jacob Holyoake —

On Woburn Walk east of Upper Woburn Place, on the right when traveling east.

George Jacob Holyoake 1817-1906 Radical Journalist, Secularist and Promoter of the Co-operative Movement lived here 1850-1861 — — Map (db m296923) HM

7 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Bloomsbury — Horizon Magazine —

On Lansdowne Terrace at Guilford Street, on the left when traveling north on Lansdowne Terrace.

George Orwell 1903-1950 Sir Stephen Spender 1909-1995 wrote for Cyril Connolly's Horizon Magazine based here 1940-1948 — — Map (db m110285) HM

8 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Bloomsbury — John Skinner Prout — 1805 - 1876 —

On Marchmont Street just south of Tavistock Place, on the right when traveling south.

Artist and Lithographer Lived here 1838 to 1840 — — Map (db m117225) HM

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9 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Bloomsbury — Richard D’Oyly Carte —

On Guilford Street at Russell Square, on the right when traveling east on Guilford Street.

Richard D'Oyly Carte 1844-1901 Theatre Impresario lived in a house on this site 1881-1886 — — Map (db m294549) HM

10 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Bloomsbury — Roger Fry — 1866-1934 —

On Bernard Street at Herbrand Street, on the left when traveling east on Bernard Street.

Artist and Art Critic lived and died at 48 Bernard Street on this site 1926-1934 — — Map (db m109329) HM

11 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Bloomsbury — Sir James Matthew Barrie —

On Grenville Street at Bernard Street on Grenville Street.

Sir James Matthew Barrie Bart., O.M. 1860-1937 Novelist, Dramatist and creator of 'Peter Pan' lived in a house on this site 1885-1888 — — Map (db m110376) HM

12 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Bloomsbury — Sir John Barbirolli —

On Marchmont Street north of Coram Street, on the right when traveling north.

Sir John (Giovanni Battista) Barbirolli C.H. 1899-1970 Conductor & Cellist lived in a house on this site 1913-1929 — — Map (db m294551) HM

13 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Bloomsbury — The Bloomsbury Group —

On Brunswick Square at Hunter Street, on the left when traveling east on Brunswick Square.

Bloomsbury Group members Virginia Woolf Duncan Grant Adrian Stephen Leonard Woolf & John Maynard Keynes lived in a house on this site 1911-1912 — — Map (db m111130) HM

14 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Bloomsbury — William Henry Hunt —

On Marchmont Street just south of Tavistock Place, on the right when traveling south.

William Henry (Bird's Nest) Hunt 1790 - 1864 Watercolour Painter lived here 1820 - 1840 — — Map (db m117157) HM

15 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Holborn — Charlotte Mew — 1869 - 1928 —

On Doughty Street at Mecklenburgh Square, on the right when traveling north on Doughty Street.

Poet lived here 1869 - 1890 — — Map (db m111134) HM

16 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Saint Pancras — Alexander Herzen —

On Judd Street at Leigh Street when traveling north on Judd Street.

Alexander HERZEN 1812-1870 operated the Free Russian Press from this building 1854-1856 — — Map (db m116778) HM

17 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Saint Pancras — Dr Alphonse Normandy — 1809 - 1864 —

On Judd Street just north of Cromer Street, on the left when traveling north.

Analytical Chemist and Desalination Pioneer lived and worked here 1850-1859 — — Map (db m115539) HM

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18 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Saint Pancras — Emlyn Williams —

On Marchmont Street just south of Tavistock Place, on the left when traveling south.

(George) Emlyn Williams CBE 1905-1987 Actor & Playwright lived here 1930-1934 — — Map (db m120125) HM

19 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Saint Pancras — Jerome K. Jerome —

On Tavistock Place just east of Woburn Place, on the left when traveling west.

Jerome K Jerome 1859-1927 Author of "Three Men in a Boat" lived here 1884-1885 — — Map (db m120109) HM

20 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Saint Pancras — Kenneth Williams —

On Marchmont Street.

Kenneth Williams 1926-1988 Comic Actor lived here 1935-1956 — — Map (db m120489) HM

21 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Saint Pancras — Lenin —

On Tavistock Place just west of Marchmont Street, on the right when traveling east.

Vladimir Ilyich LENIN 1870-1924 Founder of the U.S.S.R. Lived here in 1908 — — Map (db m115334) HM

22 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Saint Pancras — Mary Anne Clarke — 1776 - 1852 —

On Tavistock Place just east of Herbrand Street, on the left when traveling east.

Mistress of Prince Frederick Duke of York lived in a house on this site 1803 — — Map (db m116498) HM

23 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Saint Pancras — Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley —

On Marchmont Street at Tavistock Place, on the right when traveling south on Marchmont Street.

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 Poet & Radical Thinker & Mary Shelley 1797-1851 Author of Frankenstein lived in a house on this site 1815-1816 — — Map (db m116106) HM

24 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Saint Pancras — Sir Rowland Hill —

On Cartwright Gardens at Leigh Street, on the left when traveling south on Cartwright Gardens.

Sir ROWLAND HILL 1795-1879 Pioneer of the modern postal service lived in a house on this site 1836-1839 — — Map (db m120104) HM

25 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Saint Pancras — William Empson —

On Marchmont Street.

Sir William Empson Poet and Critic 1906-1984 lived here 1929-1931 and at 71 Marchmont Street 1934-1936 — — Map (db m120461) HM

26 ► United Kingdom, England, Greater London, Camden, Saint Pancras — William Reeve —

On Marchmont Street just south of Tavistock Place, on the left when traveling south.

William REEVE 1757-1815 Composer Covent Garden and Sadler's Wells theatres lived and died in a house on this site — — Map (db m120124) HM

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