Born Theobalds Road which at the time was 6 King's Road. Novelist, e.g. Coningsby, Sybil, and Tancred. Tory Prime Minister in 1868 and 1874 - 1880. 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. Clearly an interesting character: a book review in the Guardian 20 July 2013 said "He entered politics because he was fearful of being imprisoned in a debtors' prison, and therefore sought an MP's immunity from arrest. ... He enjoyed the company of racy older women, and had a famously happy marriage to a rich widow 15 years his senior." Died 19 Curzon Street.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Disraeli - EC2
Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister in 1868 and 1874 - 1880, worked in this bui...
Disraeli statue
{Cut into the red marble immediately below the statue:} Beaconsfield {On the...
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J R Ackerley
Writer and literary editor. Born as Joe Randolph Ackerley at 4 Warmington Road, Herne Hill. He was appointed as private secretary to the Maharajah of Chhokrapur which served as a basis for his 'Hin...
1 memorial
Kit-Cat Club
18th century London club with political (Whig) and literary interests. Tending to the clandestine it met, at different periods, at the Trumpet Tavern, the Fountain Tavern and at Barn Elms. In sum...
Group, Community / Clubs, Literature, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Charlotte Riddell
Born as Charlotte Eliza Lawson Cowan in Ireland. Â Moved to London in 1855. Â Married Joseph Hadley Riddell, a hot water engineer in 1857. They lived in St John's Lodge 1868 - 1873. Â Published her fi...
1 memorial
Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay) is an English journalist and biographer known for her biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft. Source: Wikipe...
1 memorial
B. Traven
Pen-name of a novelist about whom little is known for certain other than the fact that he spent time in Mexico where he died. Author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 1927, made into the 1948 ...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Germany, Mexico
1 memorial
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