Erection date: 22/4/2015
George Orwell, 1903 - 1950, Sir Stephen Spender, 1919 - 1995, wrote for Cyril Connolly's Horizon Magazine based here, 1940 - 1948.
Marchmont Association
University of London
WC1, Lansdowne Terrace, 2
Spender rented the ground floor and basement of this building, the upper floors of which were damaged in WW2.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Orwell, Spender & Cyril Connolly’s Horizon Magazine
An influential literary and art magazine. From a pdf issued for the unveiling...
Literary critic and writer. Â Born Coventry and was brought up in South Africa...
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a Briti...
Poet.  Born 47 Campden House Court, Kensington.  The Evening Standard carries...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Orwell, Spender & Cyril Connolly’s Horizon Magazine
Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surround...
Here lived Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, from 1839 - 1873.
From Notes & Queries 1920 "The trial of the King was, by order of the Court, held where the Courts of King's Bench and Chancery sat i...
Given the state of the inscription we hope you are impressed with our ability to decipher it. We have to own that it is practically ille...
In 1882 a private art school was founded by the Victorian animal painter, Thomas Sidney Cooper, in this building which was also his home....
This plaque is no longer in situ. Our picture is taken from 'London Plaques' by Derek Sumeray and John Sheppard, Shire Publications.
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