Born Kennoway, Fife. Literary scholar and writer. Created professor of English literature and history at Queen’s College, Belfast in 1849. Buried at Holywood, near Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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George Lillie Craik
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...
Sir John Lubbock lived here, 1861- 5. From the style of the house, he may have been its first occupant. It housed St Hugh's Preparatory School for a time. For WW1 the School moved to Malvern and ...
the V&A (our picture source) hold in their collection part of the façade of this building (not just the photo but the bricks themselves). Alamy have a photo of the saved section of the façade e...
Founded near what is now the Barbican. One of the oldest girls' schools in the country, Â this was established when a trust for its endowment as a Christian foundation was created under the will of ...
What is now Founders' Hall was built, probably in 1843, as an assembly room attached to a pub, what is now (2024) the Chelsea Potter. By 1865 it had become a Weslayan Chapel and by 1907 the religio...
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