Erection date: /1/2018
William Somerset Maugham 1874 - 1965
Novelist and playwright lived here 1919 - 1923
"To acquire a habit for reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."
City of Westminster
W1, Wyndham Place, 2
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
W. S. Maugham - Wyndham Place
Playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born of British parents in Paris...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
W. S. Maugham - Wyndham Place
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
May 2016: The Islington Tribute reports that the plaque has been replaced, 27 May, with one giving the correct date of habitation (1944-7...
The small (6") brass pavement plaque is just to the north of the main memorial. 2024: English Cathedrals reported on 28 August that this...
Their majesties King George III & Queen Charlotte were received in this brewery by Samuel Whitbread, 24th May 1787.
Wikipedia and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography both give De Vere's date of death as 1604 so the 1609 on the plaque must be exp...
Our colleague Alan Patient took this photograph in 2010. By 2016 it had been replaced by the "Turners and Paget" plaque.
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