Novelist. Born Calcutta, full name William Makepeace Thackeray. Best known for the novel: Vanity Fair. Died suddenly from a stroke having returned home to Onslow Square after dining out. He was found dead the next morning so the date of death is sometimes given as 24th. This was apparently unexpected despite him being overweight, a big eater and an exercise-avoider. It was estimated that 7,000 people attended his funeral.
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William Thackeray
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Bradbury & Evans
Oh, dear, what is happening to the City plaques? This one looks really cheap...
Chiswick Square
The houses each side were built about 1680. Boston House built in 1740, on th...
CI - 8 - Books
This carving depicts the two Brontë sisters meeting Thackeray, but rather fai...
Rules Restaurant 2
Rules®. London's oldest restaurant. In the year Napoleon opened his campaign ...
Tom Cribb Public House
Tom Cribb Tom Cribb was the British bare-knuckle boxing champion between 1809...
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Edward Sackville-West
Edward Charles Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville was a music critic, novelist and, in his last 3 years, a member of the House of Lords. Born at Cadogan Gardens, son of Major-General Charles John...
Person, Literature, Music / songs, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Major Byron F. Caws
Believed to have assisted Fowler in his work on the Concise Oxford Dictionary. The Latin on the memorial, 'castigavit et emendavit', translates as “he corrected and improved“, which is quite an ac...
1 memorial
Piotr Ouspensky
Philosopher. Born in Moscow. He became a pupil of George Gurdjieff who taught that most humans live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to transcend to a high...
1 memorial
Frederick Startridge Ellis
Born Richmond, Surrey. Bookseller and author. He published the works of William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who were also close friends. Rossetti wrote a limerick about him: "There’s a pub...
1 memorial
Robert Graves
Poet and novelist. Born Robert von Ranke Graves at Red Branch House, Lauriston Road, Wimbledon. Professor of English at Cairo and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. His early poetry included 'Over the ...
Person, Literature, Poetry, Egypt, Spain
1 memorial
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