Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 poet and story writer lived here 1889-1891
Kipling was first commemorated by the London County Council with a sepia brown plaque in the experimental series in 1940. This, one of perhaps only three plaques erected by the LCC during WWII - the others being a plaque commemorating Thomas Hardy which was erected in March 1940, just before wartime economies precipitated a seven year suspension of the scheme, and a very short lived stone tablet commemorating Lenin which was something of a propaganda stunt. The brown Kipling plaque was so badly weathered by 1957 that it was replaced with this blue roundel.
43 Villiers Street, Westminster, WC2, London
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by administered by English Heritage as part of the London wide plaque scheme and London County Council in 1957
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(1865-1936) poet