Erection date: 17/8/2018
George Jacob Holyoake, 1817 - 1906, radical journalist, secularist and promoter of the Co-operative Movement, lived here 1850 to 1861.
National Secular Society
Marchmont Association
WC1, Woburn Walk
Richardson's novel The Trap describes her time at no.6.
Holyoake lived at no.4, formerly 1 Woburn Buildings, 1850 - 61.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
George Holyoake
Radical journalist, secularist and promoter of the Co-operative Movement. Bor...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
George Holyoake
Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surround...
Campaign promoting secularism and the separation of church and state. Founded...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
George Holyoake
J.A.R. Newlands, 1837 - 1898, chemist and discoverer of the periodic law for the chemical elements, was born and raised here. Royal Socie...
In 1672 the Duke of Buckingham sold his house (York House) and land north-east of where Charing Cross Station now stands, for development...
Wikipedia gives the architects as "Davis and Emanuel Pevsner". We believe the "Pevsner" to be an error, that has been widely copied.
The original UCL, built 1825 - 1832, comprised this quad and its buildings, by the architect William Wilkins (1778 -1839).
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