Greater London Council
Thomas de Quincy, 1785 - 1859, wrote "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" in this house.
Note: "Quincey" seems to be the accepted spelling rather than the "Quincy" on the plaque.
WC2, Tavistock Street, 36
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas de Quincey
Born Manchester. Author, best known for "Confessions of an English Opium-Eate...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thomas de Quincey
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
There are 10 memorials in this area around the the war memorial building in our photo. The two pier heads are to the right of the buildin...
That shape at the top of the stone (filled in with cement, we think) would have been used to hold an identifying shield, possibly lost fo...
The plaque is in the dimly lit museum of Greenwich Heritage Centre.
Site of St Mary Axe Church, 1230 - 1561. City of London
Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister in 1868 and 1874 - 1880, worked in this building, 1821 - 1824. The Corporation of the City of London
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