John Christopher Smith, Handel's friend and secretary, 1712 - 1763, lived and died here.
The dates on the plaque confuse Smith (1712 - 1795) with his father, Johann Christoph Schmidt (1683–1762/3), also confusingly later known as John Christopher Smith.
W1, Carlisle Street, 6
provides an interesting history of this house and the area.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Christopher Smith
Composer. Born Ansbach, Germany. Following his father he arrived in London in...
The plaque was unveiled in a temporary position but is now (2021) on the wall just inside the main entrance to the theatre.
We have found three (identical) plaques on the South Bank riverside recalling this disaster, as follows: Royal Festival Hall, National Th...
The full name of the building "The Samuel Augustine Courtauld Institute of Bio-Chemistry" is carved in large lettering along this frontag...
In this house died Carl Maria von Weber 1826. Placed here by the London Section of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.
With no other information we cannot identify "M.M.S.E. de N." so we are rather stumped. The poem is by Mary Hall but the voice could be ...
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