Blue and Green Plaques
Blue Plaques
Blue Plaques are placed on buildings where great figures of the past have previously lived. They honour and celebrate the connection these famous people have with the history, heritage and architecture of England. The selection criteria for a candidate is either one hundred years from birth, or twenty years after they have passed away. The building with the personal connection must still be in existence and an individual can only be commemorated once.
For more information visit the English Heritage website or
T: 020 7973 3794
20 Upper Berkeley Street
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
1836-1917
First Qualified women doctor in Britain.
48 Blandford Street
Michael Faraday
1791-1867
English physicist and chemist who was apprenticed here.His many experiments contributed greatly to the understanding of electromagnetism.
1 Bryanston Square
Mustapha Raschid Pasha
1800-1858
Turkish Ambassador and Statesman
4 Duke Street
Simon Bolivar
1783-1830
Liberator of Latin America.
85 George Street
Tom Moore
1779 -1852
Irish Poet
48 Gloucester Place
John Robert Godley
1814-1861
Founder of the Canterbury Association, 1848, which planned to establish English settlers in New Zealand.
62 Gloucester Place
Benedict Arnold
1741-1801
American Patriot Officer who served the cause of the American Revolution until 1779, when he shifted his allegiance to the British.
65 Gloucester Place
William Wilkie Collins
1824-1889
Early master of the mystery story and the first English novelist to write in this genre.
2 Manchester Square
Sir Julius Benedict
1804-1885
Musical composer who both lived and died here
3 Manchester Square
John Hughlings Jackson
1835 -1911
Physician
14 Manchester Square
Alfred, Lord Milner
1854-1925
Statesman - able but inflexible British administrator, whose attitude while he was high commissioner and governor in southern Africa helped to bring about the South African war.
51 Manchester Street
Sir Francis Beaufort
Admiral and Hydrographer.
12 Seymour Street
Michael William Balfe
1808-1870
Singer and Composer best known for the popular melodies and simple vocal effects of his opera The Bohemian Girl.
30 Seymour Street
Edward Lear
1812-1888
English landscape painter who is more widely known as the writer of an original kind of nonsense verse and as the populariser of the limerick.
Green Plaques
Green Plaques were launched in 1991 by Westminster City Council to draw attention to particular buildings in Westminster associated with people of renown who have made lasting contiributions to society.
For more information, visit:
http://www.westminster.gov.uk/leisureandculture/greenplaques/index.cfm
T: 020 7641 2457
F:020 7641 3050
102 George Street
Sake Dean Mahomed
1759-1851
Britain's first Indian Restaurant.