Site of the Royal College of Physicians, 1674 - 1825.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC4, Warwick Lane
This plaque is on a very dull building next door to the actual site of the Physicians' building, now occupied by the splendid 1888 red brick Cutlers' Hall. Frieze by Creswick. See for details of the terracotta frieze.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Royal College of Physicians - EC4
Founded by Thomas Linacre in 1518 with a charter granted by Henry VIII. Thei...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Royal College of Physicians - EC4
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
DL stands for Deputy Lieutenant (of the County of Buckinghamshire).
Robert Aickman, 1914 - 1981, author and co-founder of the Inland Waterways Association, lived and worked here. The Inland Waterways Assoc...
Two points about the wording on this plaque. 'Navies' were the men who built the canals which were known as 'navigations'. They moved a...
Chelsea china was manufactured in a house at the north end of Lawrence Street, 1745-1784. Tobias Smollett, novelist, also lived in part o...
That last phrase "Pray for his soul..." is surely a quotation but we can't source it.
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