Erection date: 1983
Greater London Council
Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, 1827 - 1900, anthropologist and archaeologist, lived here.
SW1, Grosvenor Gardens, 4
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Augustus Pitt-Rivers
Army officer, anthropologist and archaeologist. Born as Augustus Henry Lane F...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Augustus Pitt-Rivers
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
Sir Francis Galton, 1822-1911, explorer, statistician, founder of eugenics, lived here for fifty years.
The rebuilding mentioned on the plaque refers to the erection of Caroone House on the site. This was itself demolished in 2004.
The plaque leads us to believe that all these men were killed in one bombing incident at one location but does not identify the event. We...
Cato Street Conspiracy discovered here 23 February 1820. Greater London Council
Memorial address is correct, even though the plaque and the entrance to the house are in Blacklands Terrace.
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