http://www.marchmont.org/historyproject/
In 2009 the Marchmont Association established its own independent commemorative plaques scheme, with a view to raising awareness of the area’s rich social history.
38 out of 38 (100%) plaques have been curated
52 subjects all or unphotographedGender Diversity
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Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 poet & radical thinker & Mary Shelley 1797-1851 author of Frankenstein lived in a house on this site 1815-16
87 Marchmont Street, London, United Kingdom
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John Skinner Prout 1805-1876 Artist and Lithographer Lived here 1838 to 1840
43 Marchmont Street, London, United Kingdom
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Sir William Empson 1906-1984 poet and critic lived here 1929-1931 and at 71 Marchmont Street 1934-1936
65 Marchmont Street , London, United Kingdom
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870-1924 Founder of the USSR Lived here in 1908
36 Tavistock Place, London, United Kingdom
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Alexander Herzen 1812-1870 operated the Free Russian Press from this building 1854-1856
61 Judd Street, London, United Kingdom
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Ernest Boulton 1847-1904 Frederick Park 1846-1881 'Stella & Fanny' Victorian cross-dressers lodged at 13 Wakefield Street on this site 1868-1870
13 Wakefield Street, WC1N 1PF, London, United Kingdom
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William Reeve 1757-1815 Composer Covent Garden and Sadler's Wells theatres lived and died in a house on this site
56 Marchmont Street, London, United Kingdom
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Sir John (Giovanni Battista) Barbirolli C.H. 1899-1970 Conductor & Cellist lived in a house on this site 1913-1929
Marchmont Street, London, United Kingdom
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Roger Fry 1866-1934 Artist and Art Critic lived and died at 48 Bernard Street on this site 1926-1934
48 Bernard Street, London, United Kingdom
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Sir James Matthew Barrie Bart. OM 1860-1937 Novelist, Dramatist and creator of 'Peter Pan' lived in this house on this site 1885-1888
Bernard Street, London, United Kingdom
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Richard Greene Actor and star of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' lived here 1938
65 Marchmont Street, London, United Kingdom
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National Co-operative People's Bank 1903 Marchmont Library 1938
41 Marchmont St, London, United Kingdom
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Henry Stringer Tailor traded here 1884-1903 Bloomsbury Festival 2013
63 Marchmont St, London, United Kingdom
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Edwards & Son Provision Merchants traded here 1905-1960's
58 Marchmont Street, London, United Kingdom
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Robert Morgan then Samuel Gordon fishmongers traded here 1841-1997
76 Marchmont St, London, United Kingdom
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Jerome K. Jerome 1859-1927 Author of 'Three Men in a Boat' lived here 1884-1885
32 Tavistock Place, London, United Kingdom
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Kenneth Williams 1926-1988 comic actor lived here 1935-1956
57 Marchment Street, London, United Kingdom
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(George) Emlyn Williams CBE 1905-1987 Actor and Playwright lived here 1930-1934
60 Marchmont Street, London, United Kingdom
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Mary Anne Clarke 1776-1852 Mistress of Prince Frederick Duke of York lived in a house on this site 1803
31 Tavistock Place, London, United Kingdom
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George Orwell 1903-1950 Sir Stephen Spender 1909-1995 wrote for Cyril Connolly's Horizon Magazine based here 1940-1948
Lansdowne Terrace, London, United Kingdom
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Robert Owen 1771-1858 Father of the Co-operative movement lived here 1832-1840
4 Burton Place, London, United Kingdom
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Sir Rowland Hill 1795-1879 Pioneer of the modern postal service lived in a house on this site 1836-1839
2 Burton Crescent, later named Cartwright Gardens, London, United Kingdom
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Charlotte Mew 1869-1928 Poet lived here 1869-1890
30 Doughty Street, London, United Kingdom
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Charles Fort 1874-1932 American writer and founder of Forteanism, the study of anomalous phenomena, lived here 1921-1928
39 Marchmont Street, London, United Kingdom
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Dorothy Richardson 1873-1957 writer lived here 1905-1906
6 Woburn Walk, Kings Cross, London, United Kingdom
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James Burton 1761-1837 Builder & Developer lived here 1794-1796
Corner of Lansdowne Terrace and Guilford Street WC1, London, United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Group Members Virginia Woolf Duncan Grant Adrian Stephen Leonard Woolf & John Maynard Keynes lived in a house on this site 1911-1912 UCL School of Pharmacy
38 Brunswick Square, London, United Kingdom
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George Jacob Holyoake 1817-1906 Radical Journalist, Secularist and Promoter of the Co-operative Movement lived here 1850-1861
4 Woburn Walk, London, United Kingdom
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Dr Alphonse Normandy (1809-1864) Analytical Chemist and Desalination Pioneer lived and worked here 1850-1859
91, Judd Street, London, United Kingdom
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Richard D'Oyly Carte 1844-1901 Theatre Impresario lived in a house on this site 1881-1886
71 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom
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Emmeline Pankhurst 1858-1928 and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia Founders of the Suffragette Movement lived in a house on this site 1888-1893
8 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom
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