Erection date: 1/6/2011
Sir William Empson, 1906 – 1984, poet and critic, lived here 1929 - 1931, and at 71 Marchmont Street, 1934 -1936.
Marchmont Association
Unveiled by Sir Williams’ son, Jake Empson. At no 71 Empson lived in the the first floor flat.
WC1, Marchmont Street, 65
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir William Empson
Poet and critic. Born near Goole, Yorkshire. Considered a great English criti...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir William Empson
Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surround...
These letters are incised into the pavement area between the Queen Anne statue and the steps to St Pauls. Queen Victoria visited St Paul...
The stone was erected on the base of one of Baird's television masts. This picture is taken from the History of Kingsbury Manor website w...
See Royal Polytechnic Institute for some of the history of this building.
This inscription is cut into one of the stones between the second and third ground floor windows, counting from the left.
At the unveiling musketeers from the Rainsborough Regiment of the Sealed Knot fired a volley to mark the occasion.
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