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...
On this site, poet & apothecary John Keats, & his friend, the poet, apothecary, surgeon & chemist Henry Stephens, shared lodg...
Pujol lived here with his wife and son. We don't have the dates of their occupation but English Heritage has: "It was from 35 Crespigny G...
In Chisholm's time this house was number 3 Charlton Crescent and was her headquarters in England.
This probably isn't a City of London plaque - though blue and oblong, the proportions are wrong, the style is different and its anonymous.
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