Search & Discover Blue Plaques in London

Robert Graves 1895-1985 Writer was born here

Robert Graves Blue Plaque

1 Lauriston Road, London, SW19 4TJ

Robert Hooke 1635-1703 Eminent Early Scientist first laid to rest here

Robert Hooke Blue Plaque

3 Saint Helen's Place, London, EC3A 6AB

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 author lived here

Robert Louis Stevenson Blue Plaque

6 Mount Vernon, London, NW3 6QS

Sir Robert Mayer 1879-1985 philanthropist and patron of music lived here in flat no. 31

Robert Mayer Blue Plaque

2 Mansfield Street, London, W1G 9NF

To perpetuate the memory of Robert Milligan a Merchant of London, to whose genius, perseverance and guardian care the surrounding great work...

Robert Milligan Bronze Plaque

West India Quay, 14 Hertsmere Road, London, E14 4AF

Robert Owen 1771-1858 Father of the Co-operative movement lived here 1832-1840

Robert Owen Blue Plaque

4A Burton Place, London, WC1H 9AH

Sir Robert Peel 1750-1830 manufacturer and reformer, and his son, Sir Robert Peel 1788-1850 Prime Minister, founder of the Metropolitan Police...

Robert Peel And Robert Peel Blue Plaque

15 Upper Grosvenor Street, London, W1K 7PJ

Sir Robert Smirke 1781-1867 architect lived here

Robert Smirke Blue Plaque

66 Charlotte Street, London, W1T 4QE

Robert Stephenson (1803-1859), engineer, died here.

Robert Stephenson Brown Plaque

47 Gloucester Square, London, W2 2TQ

Site of Enfield Palace 1522 – 1928 Robert Uvedale 1642 – 1722 Horticulturist Lived here 1670 - 1722

Robert Uvedale Plaque

11-14 The Town, Enfield, EN2 6LJ

Robert W. Paul (1869-1943) British cinema pioneer, inventor, manufacturer, producer, exhibitor and cinematographer opened his workshop here 1891

Robert W. Paul Film Cell Plaque

67 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8JY

Robert Paul lived here 1914-1920 having opened a studio nearby in 1898

Robert W. Paul Film Cell Plaque

49 Sydney Road, Barnet

Sir Robert Walpole 1676-1745 Prime Minister and his son Horace Walpole 1717-1797 connoisseur and man of letters lived here

Robert Walpole And Horace Walpole Blue Plaque

6 Arlington Street, London, SW1A 1RE

In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met using the title of the Fountain...

Robert Walpole, Edmund Kean, And Fountain Tavern, London Brown Plaque

London, WC2R 0LS

Sir Robert Watson-Watt 1892-1973 Pioneer of Radar lived here

Robert Watson-Watt Blue Plaque

269 Sheen Lane, London, SW14 8RN

Sir Robert Wigram, MP, 1744-1830 High Sheriff of Essex Merchant lived here

Robert Wigram Blue Plaque

13 Shernhall Street, London, E17 3EU

Dr Robert Willan (1757-1812), Dermatologist, lived here.

Robert Willan Blue Plaque

10 Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2LP

Gipsy Rodney Smith MBE who preached the Gospel of Christ to thousands on five continents for seventy years was born here on 31st March 1860 and...

Rodney Smith Stone Plaque

London, E18 2LG

Sir Roger Bannister while a medical student at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School from 1951-54, trained on the cinder track on this site in...

Roger Bannister Blue Plaque

Randolph Avenue, London, W9 1PD

Roger Fenton 1819-1869 photographer lived here

Roger Fenton Blue Plaque

2 Albert Terrace, London, NW1 7SU

Roger Fry 1866 - 1934 Artist and Art Critic lived and died at 48 Bernard Street on this site 1926 - 1934 Morton Hotel

Roger Fry Blue Plaque

48 Bernard Street, London, WC1N 1BY

In this house Roger Fry 1866-1934 artist and art critic ran the Omega Workshops 1913-1919

Roger Fry Blue Plaque

70 Whitfield Street, London, W1T 4BU

The arena of London's Roman amphitheatre beneath the Guildhall Yard is indicated by the black slate oval inlaid in the yard's paved surface

Roman Amphitheatre Black Plaque

1 Guildhall Yard, London, EC2V

Roman camp site

Roman Camp, Islington Black Plaque

Hungerford Road, N7 9LX

Ron Greenwood CBE 1921-2006 manager of West Ham United and England

Ron Greenwood Blue Plaque

Green Street, London, E13 9AZ

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher 1890-1962 statistician and geneticist lived here 1896-1904

Ronald Fisher Blue Plaque

Inverforth House, North End Way, London, NW3 7EU

Sir Ronald Ross 1857-1932 Nobel laureate and discoverer of the mosquito transmission of malaria lived here

Ronald Ross Blue Plaque

17 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0PH

Here fell PC Ronan McCloskey 9th May 1987

Ronan McCloskey Black Plaque

109B Dudden Hill Lane, London, NW10 1BJ

Rosa Lewis 1867-1952 Chef de cuisine and hotelier dramatised as 'The Duchess of Duke Street' ruled the Cavendish hotel in a building on...

Rosa Lewis Green Plaque

90 Jermyn Street, London, SW1Y 6JD

Rosalind Franklin 1920-1958 pioneer of the study of molecular structures including DNA lived here 1951-1958

Rosalind Franklin Blue Plaque

Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, London, SW10 9QS

R. E. Franklin R. G. Gosling H. R. Wilson M. H. F. Wilkins A. R. Stokes King's College London DNA X-ray diffraction studies 1953

Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling, Herbert Wilson, Maurice Wilkins, And 1 Other

33-41 Surrey Street, London, WC2R 2ND

Rose Macaulay 1881-1958 writer lived and died here

Rose Macaulay Blue Plaque

Hinde House, 11 Hinde Street, London, W1U 3BD

Rosemary Stjernstedt 1912-1998 Architect senior grade 1 architect for Central Hill Estate

Rosemary Stjernstedt Blue Plaque

Central Hill Estate, Lambeth

Rotherhithe Picture Research Library and Sands Films Studio in Grice's Granary since 1976 a working building since the 1780's

Rotherhithe Picture Research Library, Sands Films Studio, And Grice's Granary Blue Plaque

82 Saint Marychurch Street, London, SE16 4HZ

Sir Rowland Hill 1795-1879 Pioneer of the modern postal service lived in a house on this site 1836-1839

Rowland Hill Blue Plaque

1 Cartwright Gardens, London, WC1X 9EN

Sir Rowland Hill 1795-1879 postal reformer lived here

Rowland Hill Brown Plaque

12 Orme Square, London, W2 4RS

Sir Rowland Hill KCB, originator of the Penny Post, lived here in 1849-1879. Born 1795. Died 1879.

Rowland Hill Brown Plaque

37e Pond Street, London, NW3 2PR

Rowland Hill 1795–1879 Wrote the pamphlet leading to the creation of the Modern Postal Service at a house on this site 1837

Rowland Hill Brown Plaque

1 Cartwright Gardens, London, WC1X 9EN

In this pulpit Rowland Hill preached the first sermon in Surrey Chapel, June 8, 1783 "We preach Christ crucified" & continued to preach in it until...

Rowland Hill, James Sherman, Christopher Newman Hall, Henry Venn, And 4 Other

Palestra House, 197 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8JZ

Roy Castle OBE

Roy Castle Blue Plaque

Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, W12

Roy Kinnear

Roy Kinnear Blue Plaque

Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, W12

Roy Porter 1946-2002 Historian lived here 1946-1959

Roy Porter Maroon Plaque

11 Camplin Street, London, SE14 5QU

Site of the Royal College of Physicians 1674 - 1825

Royal College Of Physicians Blue Plaque

4 Warwick Lane, London, EC4M 7BR

At Messrs. Hatchard's in a house on this site the Royal Horticultural Society was founded on the 7th March 1804

Royal Horticultural Society, John Hatchard, And Hatchards Brass Plaque

187 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LE

The buildings of this museum were occupied until 1933 by The Royal Hospital School founded in 1694 for the sons of seaman of The Royal Navy. ...

Royal Hospital School, London And National Maritime Museum Bronze Plaque

Park Row, London, SE10 9NF

The House of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce. Foundation Laid 28 March 1772 Complete 24 April 1774 Robert...

Royal Society For The Encouragement Of Arts Manufactures And Commerce, Robert Adam, And James Adam B

8 John Adam Street, London

Rudolf Nureyev 1938-1993 Ballet Dancer lived here

Rudolf Nureyev Blue Plaque

27 Victoria Road, London, W8 5RF

Rudy Narayan 1938–1998 barrister, civil rights activist, community champion and voice for the voiceless practised law here 1987-1994

Rudy Narayan Blue Plaque

442 Brixton Road, London, SW9 8PA

Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 poet and story writer lived here 1889-1891

Rudyard Kipling Blue Plaque

29 Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6ND

Rufus Isaacs 1st Marquess of Reading 1860-1935 lawyer and statesman lived and died here

Rufus Isaacs Blue Plaque

32 Curzon Street, London, W1J 7WS

Russell Henderson 1924 Musician and Pioneering Pan Artist, Led the first ever carnival parade on the streets of Notting Hill in 1965

Russell Henderson Blue Plaque

London, W11 1AR

Ruy Barbosa 1849-1923 Eminent Brazilian statesman and jurist lived here 1895

Ruy Barbosa Blue Plaque

Carlton Mansions, Holland Park Gardens, London, W14 8DW

Site of Hindoostane Coffee House 1810 London's first Indian restaurant owned by Sake Dean Mahomed 1759-1851

Sake Dean Mahomed And Hindoostane Coffee House Green Plaque

London

Site of The Salisbury Court Playhouse 1629-1649

Salisbury Court Playhouse Blue Plaque

8 Salisbury Square, London, EC4Y 8BB

Marylebone station centenary 1899-1999 This plaque unveiled by His Honour Edgar Fay Q.C. Son of Sir Sam Fay, General Manager of the Great...

Sam Fay, Edgar Fay, And Marylebone Railway Station, London Green And Red Plaque

Marylebone Railway Station, 12 Melcombe Place, London, NW1 6JJ

Sam King MBE Born 1926 Major of Southwark 1983-84 Wartime RAF Serviceman Passenger on the Empire Windrush West Indian Community Leader and ...

Sam King Blue Plaque

2 Warmington Road, London, SE24 9LA

Sam Wanamaker 1919-1993 Visionary who recreated Shakespeare's Globe

Sam Wanamaker Blue Plaque

21 New Globe Walk, London, SE1 9DT

Canon Samuel Barnett 1844-1913 social reformer lived here

Samuel Barnett Blue Plaque

33 Spaniards Road, London, NW3 7JJ

Samuel Baylis Lived on Whitecross St and was a founder of the Radical Club July 1833

Samuel Baylis Blue Plaque

Bunhill Fields Meeting House, Banner Street, London, EC1Y 8QQ

Samuel Beckett 1906-1989 dramatist and author lived here in 1934

Samuel Beckett Blue Plaque

47 Paultons Square, London, SW3 5DT

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912 composer of the 'Song of Hiawatha' lived here

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Blue Plaque

26A Dagnall Park, London, SE25 5PH

In a house on this site Doctor Samuel Johnson lived between 1765-1776

Samuel Johnson Blue Plaque

165 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2AE

Dr. Samuel Johnson author lived here b. 1709 d. 1784

Samuel Johnson Brown Plaque

4 Red Lion Court, London, EC4A 3EB

Here in the former Turk's Head Tavern Dr Samuel Johnson & Joshua Reynolds founded The Club in 1764

Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, And The Club Green Plaque

12 Gerrard Street, London, W1D 5PR

Robert Morgan then Samuel Morgan Fishmongers Treaded Here 1841-1997

Samuel Morgan And Robert Morgan Blue Plaque

71-73 Marchmont Street, London, WC1N 1AB

Samuel Morse 1791-1872 American painter and inventor of the Morse Code lived here 1812-1815

Samuel Morse Blue Plaque

106 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 6NX

Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 artist lived here 1851-1861

Samuel Palmer Blue Plaque

5A Douro Place, London, W8 5PH

Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 artist born here

Samuel Palmer Blue Plaque

44 Surrey Square, London, SE17 2FS

In a house on this site Samuel Pepys, diarist, was born. 1632-1703

Samuel Pepys Blue Plaque

85 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1AE

Site of the Navy Office in which Samuel Pepys Lived and Worked Destroyed by Fire 1673

Samuel Pepys Blue Plaque

1 Seething Lane, London, EC3N 4AX

St James's Church. A Georgian church on a medieval site. St. Mary's Nunnery church was built here in the 12th century. Henry VIII closed the...

Samuel Pepys Brown Plaque

7 Clerkenwell Close, London, EC1R 0DY

Samuel Pepys 1633-1703 Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty lived here 1679-1688.

Samuel Pepys Brown Plaque

12 Buckingham Street, London, WC2N 6DF

Near this spot Punch's Puppet Show was first performed in England and witnessed by Samuel Pepys 1662

Samuel Pepys Stone Plaque

WC2E 9ED

On this site was built the Davies Amphitheatre 1662-1682 the last bear-baiting ring of Bankside visited by Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. To the...

Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn, Bear Gardens, London, Elizabeth I Of England, And 2 Other

18 New Globe Walk, London, SE1 9DR

In a house formerly standing on this site lived Samuel Pepys 1633-1703 diarist and Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford 1661-1724 statesman and in this...

Samuel Pepys, Robert Harley, William Etty, And Clarkson Stanfield Brown Plaque

20 Buckingham Street, London, WC2N 6EF

Samuel Phelps 1804-1878 tragedian lived here

Samuel Phelps Black Plaque

11 Canonbury Square, London, N1 2AU

Sir Samuel Romilly Knt, Solicitor-General 1806 occupied chambers here 1778-1791

Samuel Romilly Black Plaque

Chambers of David Malone, 9 Gray's Inn Square, London, WC1R 5JQ

Here lived Sir Samuel Romilly Law reformer Born | Died 1757 | 1818

Samuel Romilly Bronze Plaque

21 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5EA

Samuel Smiles 1812-1904 author of Self Help lived here

Samuel Smiles Blue Plaque

18B Granville Park, London, SE13 7EA

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 poet and philosopher lived here

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blue Plaque

6 Addison Bridge Place, London, W14 8XP

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 poet and philosopher lived in a house on this site 1812-1813

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blue Plaque

60A Berners Street, London, W1T 3BA

Samuel Taylor Coleridge English poet and critic lived in Highgate Village for nineteen years and in this house from 1823 until his death in 1834

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bronze Plaque

6 The Grove, London, N6 6JU

Samuel Whitbread (1720–96) brewer and politician, George III and Queen Charlotte

Samuel Whitbread Plaque

50 Chiswell Street, London, EC1Y 4SA

Sarah Bernhardt laid the foundation stone of this building 1904

Sarah Bernhardt Bronze Plaque

41-43 Wardour Street, London, W1D 6PY

Arthur Henry Ward Sax Rohmer 1883-1959 creator of Dr Fu Manchu lived here

Sax Rohmer Blue Plaque

51 Herne Hill, London, SE24 9NE

Scipio Africanus Mussabini 1867-1927 athletics Coach lived here

Scipio Africanus Mussabini Blue Plaque

76 Burbage Road, London, SE24 9HE

Site of Scotland Yard first Headquarters of the Metropolitan Police 1829-1890

Scotland Yard Blue Plaque

53 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2AW

Sean O'Casey 1880-1964 playwright lived here at flat No. 49

Sean O'Casey Blue Plaque

41 Prince of Wales Drive, London, SW11 4EY

Princess Seraphine Astafieva 1876-1934 ballet dancer lived and taught here

Seraphine Astafieva Blue Plaque

London, SW3 4PA

First gig Sex Pistols November 6th 1975 'Unplugged'

Sex Pistols Blue Plaque

London, WC2H 0JN

Dame Sheila Sherlock MD FRS 1918-2001 World authority on the liver, Professor of medicine lived here 1970-2001

Sheila Sherlock Green Plaque

41 York Terrace East, Westminster NW1

At this place New Years Day, 1881 were spoken these deathless words "You have been to Afghanistan, I perceive." by Mr Sherlock Holmes in greeting...

Sherlock Holmes And John Watson Black Plaque

20 Little Britain, London, EC1A 7DH

221b Sherlock Holmes consulting detective 1881-1904

Sherlock Holmes Blue Plaque

221b Baker Street, London, NW1 6XE

Sid James 1913-1976 comedy actor

Sid James Blue Plaque

10 Broom Road, Teddington, TW11 9NW

Sid James

Sid James Blue Plaque

BBC Radio Theatre Broadcasting House, 30-34 Langham Street, London, W1W 7AW

Sid James 1913-1976 Comic Actor Lived here 1956 - 1963

Sid James Blue Plaque

32 Gunnersbury Avenue, London, W5 3QL

In Memory of Auxiliary Fireman Sidney Alfred Holder who died as a result of injuries received from a collapsing wall while fighting fires on...

Sidney Alfred Holder Plaque

143 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2BP

Sidney Bechet 1897-1959 New Orleans Jazz Pioneer Saxophonist & Clarinetist lived here 1922

Sidney Bechet Blue Plaque

246248 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5JL

Sidney Lewis 1903-1969 youngest British soldier First World War aged twelve lived here

Sidney Lewis Blue Plaque

934 Garratt Lane, London, SW17 0ND

Sidney Webb 1859-1947 and Beatrice Webb 1858-1943 social scientists and political reformers lived here

Sidney Webb And Beatrice Webb Blue Plaque

Fitzjohns Mansions, 10 Netherhall Gardens, London, NW3 5RS