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
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W. S. Maugham - Wyndham Place
Playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born of British parents in Paris...
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W. S. Maugham - Wyndham Place
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