LCC
Spencer Perceval (1762 - 1812) Prime Minister, lived here.
WC2, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 59
This was London's first garden square. 59-60 were probably designed by Inigo Jones in about 1630-40.
The house next door, number 57-58 is where Tulkinghorn lived, lawyer in Dickens' Bleak House. Dickens is known to have visited number 58.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Spencer Perceval - WC2
Prime Minister - and the only one, so far, to have been assassinated. Born Au...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Spencer Perceval - WC2
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, 1856 - 1925, novelist, lived here 1885 - 1888. Greater London Council.
2023: Lionel Wright has drawn our attention to an error in this plaque: St Andrew's Holborn was not destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666....
We are immensely grateful to our Latin consultant, David Hopkins, for his work on these stones: he transcribed and translated them, comme...
London County Council Thomas Wakley, 1795 - 1862, reformer and founder of "The Lancet" lived here.
The Wanamaker plaque is to the right of the Shakespeare memorial.
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