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...
Prior to the death of her husband in 1913, Dame Henrietta Barnett had been living with him at St Jude's Cottage at Spaniard's Inn. On hi...
Mary Tealby, 1801-1865, founded the Home for Lost & Starving Dogs (now Battersea Dogs & Cats Home) that stood on this site, 1860 ...
This cast-iron roundel, showing keys and doorbells, is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
The H.G. Wells Society H.G. Wells, author, 1866 - 1946, lived and worked here, 1930 - 1936.
LCC In a house on this site lived from 1854 - 1875, Sir Charles Lyell, geologist and from 1876 - 1882, W.E. Gladstone, statesman.
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