Erection date: /9/2014
Wilkie Collins, 1824 - 1889, Victorian novelist and author of 'The Woman in White' and 'The Moonstone', was born in a house on this site.
City of Westminster
W1, New Cavendish Street, 96 - 100
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Wilkie Collins - New Cavendish Street
William Wilkie Collins was a writer of thriller novels such as The Woman in W...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Wilkie Collins - New Cavendish Street
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Francisco de Miranda 1750 - 1816 lived in this house between 1803 and 1810. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he was the forerunner of the i...
We are guessing that the plaque was fixed to the oblong section of wall that you can see in our photo, above the head of the seated person.
From Chiswick W4: The family "moved between Sligo, Dublin and London .... They first came to London in 1867 living in Edith Villas in Ful...
The smaller plaque is between the two posts on the right of the photograph.
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