In a house on this site Samuel Pepys, diarist, was born, 1632 - 1703.
The Corporation of the City of London
Ralph Stephen draws our attention to the birth date on this plaque, 1632, when Pepys was actually born 23 February 1633. He surmises that the error is due to someone forgetting to make the correction necessary after 1753 when the start of the year was moved from March to January.
EC4, Salisbury Court
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Samuel Pepys - EC4
Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty. Â Born Salisbury Court, where his fath...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Samuel Pepys - EC4
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
London County Council Here lived and died John Loughborough Pearson, 1817 - 1897, and later, Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, 1869 - 1944, ar...
Barnsbury is surprisingly short of plaques and memorials of any kind, so Anna's plaque is very welcome. But it would be anyway - a unique...
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
Plaque unveiled by Professor David Wormersley who has written many books on Gibbon.
Pete Townshend of The Who unveiled the plaque, which was, we've read, the first EH plaque awarded to a pop star.
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