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
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Greater London Council Sir Ronald Ross, 1857 - 1932, Nobel Laureate, discoverer of the mosquito transmission of malaria, lived here.
DL stands for Deputy Lieutenant (of the County of Buckinghamshire).
Via Facebook David Johnson pointed us to 47 Shoe Lane which gives lots of background information and photos about these plaques, McGill a...
The (unhelpfully brick-coloured) plaque is to the bottom left of the small upstairs window. Perhaps that was his bedroom.
Underground Heritage information. Piccadilly Circus Station. Listed as a building of national importance. Architects: Entrances and ticke...
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