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...
These 6 plaques are on the east elevation of the building, below the ground floor windows. We have numbered the plaques left to right. F...
St Stephens was erected in 1847-9, designed by Benjamin Ferrey, and funded by Angela Burdett-Coutts. The small south chapel of 1904 is v...
Plaque unveiled by her daughter, Tessa, Viscountess Montgomery of Alamein.
From Hansard and the Harrow Medical Officer during 1947-70 (at least) here was the Heywood Nursing Home for "maternity and surgical", wit...
Time & Talents, established 1887, founded to improve the living and working conditions of women and children employed in the factorie...
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