Sir Henry Cole 1808-1882 campaigner and educator, first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum lived here
It was Cole, the former chairman of the (Royal) Society of Arts who, , in response to an 1863 suggestion by William Ewart persuaded the Society to launch a scheme to erect what were then referred to as ‘memorial tablets’, in 1866. Thus began the first commemorative plaque scheme in the world, without which /none of this would be here/.
by administered by English Heritage as part of the London wide plaque scheme and English Heritage in 1991
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