Thursday, October 20, 2016

Famous Personalities of Pinner, Harrow and London


* Mrs Beeton - Hatch End - Mrs Beeton see plaque outside restaurant. (See my previous post on Mrs Beeton.)
* Mrs Beeton - Norwood Cemetery - gravestones of Mrs Beeton and her husband; Tate the sugar king of Tate and Lyle who founded the Tate, modern art gallery in London.
* St Anselm's Church, Hatch End.
* Byron, Harrow on the Hill. Monument to Byron. His daughter buried under the step into the church.
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Gilbert - wrote the words of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, quotations such as 'I've got a little list,' 'A policeman's lot is not a happy one' - Gilbert's house, now Grimsdyke hotel holds Gilbert & Sullivan evenings.
* Gilbert bust in church beside the former Leefe Robinson pub.
* Gilbert memorial in Norwood cemetery.
* Leefe Robinson. Old news cuttings in Leefe Robinson pub (Miller and Carter).
* Grave of Leefe Robinson in cemetery extension across the road from Leefe Robinson pub. A wreath or mark of respect is laid on the grave by the Mayor of Harrow on Armistice Day November 11th every year.
* Amy Winehouse, Camden statue, Stables Market.

Others: Dick Whittington, Oscar Wilde, Keats (Keats House), Florence Nightingale, Mary Seattle, Queen Victoria, Albert (memorial); Freud (bust Swiss Cottage; museum in Hampstead); Karl Marx bust in Highgate cemetery.
See my other posts on statues and famous Londoners.

Alphabetically by surname:
Beeton, Isabella; Brummell, 'Beau'; Brunel, Isambard Kingdom; Byron; Chaplin, Charlie; Gilbert; Robinson, Leefe; Seattle, Mary; Wilde, Oscar; Winehouse, Amy.
Angela Lansbury, author and speaker.

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