Born Dalquhurn (now part of Renton) Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Poet and author of novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle which supposedly influenced Charles Dickens. Died near Livorno, Tuscany.
A says that the Smollets moved from Central London to Chelsea house for the health of their daughter but when she died, of tuberculosis, they moved away.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Tobias George Smollett
Chelsea china was manufactured in a house at the north end of Lawrence Street...
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.
Translated Pepys's diary (written in one of the versions of shorthand used at the time) in 1819 - 22.
A book on boy scout training written by Robert Baden-Powell. It was originally published in six fortnightly instalments and contained information on 'self-survival', based on his boyhood experience...
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
Sculptor, painter and author. Born Ireland. Â The picture source website has a second picture of Fitzgerald, sadly no more flattering than this one.
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