Erection date: 1978
Emily Davies, 1830 - 1921, founder of Girton College Cambridge lived here.
Greater London Council
NW8, Cunningham Place, 17
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Emily Davies
England's first residential college for women. Established in 1869 by Emily D...
Suffragist and promoter of higher education for women. Born Sarah Emily Davie...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Emily Davies
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
L.C.C. 1911 Michael William Balfe (1808 - 1870), musical composer, lived here.
We are guessing that the plaque was fixed to the oblong section of wall that you can see in our photo, above the head of the seated person.
His four children and sister were present at the unveiling.
This memorial is, oddly, erected very close to, and land-side of, the Wapping cupola which disguises a ventilation shaft for the Rotherhi...
Greater London Council Charles Townley, 1737 - 1805, antiquary and collector, lived here.
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