Erection date: 12/5/2012
From 1859 to 1868 the poet, painter and traveller, Edward Lear, 1812 - 1888, made a house on this site his London home and studio.
City of Westminster
Lear Bicentenary 2012
W1, Stratford Place, 15
The contains a limerick composed and read by a Westminster councillor at the event. Â This demonstrates that limerick-writing is a skill best left to the few, like Lear, who can do it with panache.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Edward Lear - Stratford Place
Born Bowman's Lodge, (now Bowman's Mews), the penultimate of 21 children. Art...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Edward Lear - Stratford Place
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