Search & Discover Blue Plaques in London
Start hunting down London's hidden heritage and history one blue plaque at a time with our guide to London's blue plaques.
Whether you are retracing the footsteps of your heroes or enjoying a trip to London and wish to incorporate some history in to your London visit our Blue Plaque Guide can expand your view of London.

Quintin Hogg 1845-1903 founder of the Polytechnic Regent Street lived here 1885-1898
5 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0PG

Colonel R. E. B. Crompton 1845-1940 Electrical Engineer lived and worked here 1891-1939
36 Kensington Court, London, W8 5BB

R. H. Tawney 1880-1962 historian, teacher and political writer lived here
21 Mecklenburgh Square, London, WC1N 2AD

R. M. Ballantyne 1825-1894 author of books for boys lived here
Mount Park Manor, Mount Park Road, Harrow, HA1 3JS



Radclyffe Hall Novelist & Poet Love Lived Here 1924-1929
Radclyffe Hall Multicoloured Plaque
44 Holland Street, London, W8 4LX


Sir Ralph Richardson 1902-1983 actor lived here 1944-1968
Kenwood Nursery Cottage, Hampstead Lane, London, N6 4NU

Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872-1958 composer lived here from 1953 until his death
Ralph Vaughan Williams Blue Plaque
9 Hanover Terrace, London, NW1 4RJ


Randolph Caldecott 1846-1886 artist and book illustrator lived here
Randolph Caldecott Blue Plaque
45 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3PA

Lord Randolph Churchill 1849-1895 statesman lived here 1883-1892
Randolph Churchill Blue Plaque
1-3 Connaught Place, London, W2 2ET

Raymond Chandler 1888-1959 Writer lived here
Raymond T. Chandler Blue Plaque
108G Auckland Road, London, SE19 2BY
Red Bus Recording Studio making musical history on this site since 1978
Red Bus Recording Studio Blue Plaque
Morris House, Salisbury Street, London, NW8 8QD
4 Whittington Avenue, London, EC3V 1LE

Sir Richard Arkwright 1732-1792 industrialist and inventor lived here
9 Adam Street, London, WC2N 6AA
Richard Briers CBE 1934 to 2013 actor lived here from 1940 to 1947
Pepys Court, Worple Road, Raynes Park

Richard Bright 1789-1858 physician lived here
Oliver Laws Designs Ltd, 11 Savile Row, London, W1S 3PG

Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816 dramatist and statesman lived here 1795-1802
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Blue Plaque
Sheridan House, 10 Hertford Street, London, W1J 7RL

Richard Brinsley Sheridan dramatist lived here B:1751 D:1816
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Brown Plaque
32 Savile Row, London, W1S 3PT

Richard Burton 1925-1984 actor lived here 1949-1956
5 Rosslyn Park Mews Lyndhurst Road, London, NW3 5NJ
Former radical bookshop and printing works of Richard Carlile 1826 - 1834 (plaque not yet erected)
61 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1JU

Bishop Richard Challoner 1691–1781 Vicar-Apostolic of the London district Died here
Richard Challoner Brown Plaque
44 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AD

Richard Church 1893-1972 writer and poet lived here 1905-1912. Plaque renewed 2010
1 Warmington Road, London, SE24 9LA


Richard Dimbleby 1913-1965 Broadcaster lived here 1937-1939
Cedar Court, Sheen Lane, London, SW14 8LY

Richard Greene Actor and star of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' lived here 1938
69 Marchmont Street, London, WC1N 1AP

Lord Haldane 1856-1928 statesman, lawyer and philosopher lived here
28 Queen Anne's Gate, London, SW1H 9AB

Richard Jefferies 1848-1887 Nature writer and novelist lived here
Richard Jefferies Maroon Plaque
20 Sydenham Park Road, London, SE26 4ED
BBC Radio Theatre Broadcasting House, 30-34 Langham Street, London, W1W 7AW

Richard Norman Shaw 1831-1912 architect designed this house in which he lived worked and died
Richard Norman Shaw Blue Plaque
8 Ellerdale Road, London, NW3 6BD

Richard Savage, Fourth Earl Rivers, governer of The Tower Of London 1660-1712 lived here
9 Old Queen Street, London, SW1P 3AT

Sir Stafford Cripps (1889-1952) statesman born here
Richard Stafford Cripps Blue Plaque
15 Elm Park Gardens, London, SW10 9QG

Richard Tauber 1891-1948 lyric tenor lived here in flat 297 1947-1948
2 Park West Place, London, W2 2QZ


Richard Todd Resident Star Elstree Studios The Dam Busters and many others 1948-1962
Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Herts, WD6 1JG

Sir Richard Westmacott 1775-1856 sculptor lived and died here
Richard Westmacott Blue Plaque
15 South Audley Street, London, W1K 1HW
Hanmer House, 11 Avenue Crescent, London, W3 8ET

Richard Whittington four times Mayor of London founded and was buried in this church 1422
Richard Whittington Blue Plaque
College Hill, London, EC4R 2RB

The house of Richard Whittington Mayor of London stood on this site 1423
Richard Whittington Blue Plaque
College Hill, London, EC4R 2RL

Here lived Richardson Evans 1846–1928 protector of natural beauties
21 West Side Common, London, SW19 4UF

Rik Mayall 1958-2014 punched his friend in the balls on a bench near this spot
Rik Mayall And Adrian Edmondson Blue Plaque
30 Hammersmith Broadway, London, W6 9YD
Rita Ora singer and actress fled the war in Kosovo and studied here after arriving in the UK in 1991
Langham Mansions, Earls Court Square, London, SW5 9UG

Robert Baden-Powell 1857-1941 Chief Scout of the World lived here
Robert Baden-Powell Blue Plaque
9 Hyde Park Gate, London, SW7 5DG
Eagle House, High Street Wimbledon, London, SW19 5EF

Robert Polhill Bevan 1865-1925 Camden Town Group painter lived here 1900-1925
16 Adamson Road, London, NW3 3HR
In a house on this site lived Robert Bloomfield 1766-1823 poet
11 Telegraph Street, London, EC2R 7AR

Robert, Lord Boothby 1900-1986 Politician, Author and Broadcaster lived here 1946-1986
1 Eaton Square, London, SW1W 9DA
Robert Browning poet born Camberwell 1812 lived on this site in Hanover Cottage 1824-40
179B Southampton Way, London, SE5 7EJ

Viscount Cecil, of Chelwood 1864-1958 creator of the League of Nations lived here
18 South Eaton Place, London, SW1W 9JA


Robert Dyas Ltd first traded here in the 1930's
Shoppers News, 41 Marchmont Street, London, WC1N 1AP
Robert Edward Ryder, VC 1895-1978
Robert Edward Ryder Blue Plaque
5 Breakspear Road North, Uxbridge, UB9 6ND

Robert Falcon Scott Antarctic explorer (1868-1912) lived here
Robert Falcon Scott Blue Plaque
Oakley Street, London, SW3 5HH

Admiral Robert Fitzroy 1805-1865 hydrographer and meteorologist lived here
42 Onslow Square, London, SW7 3NS


Robert Gascoyne Cecil Third Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903) prime minister lived here.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Blue Plaque
22 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 6EL