Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh on November 13 1850. His father, Thomas Stevenson, was one of a long line of distinguished lighthouse engineers that had built all the lighthouses surrounding the Scottish coast. (more…)
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867)
Clarkson Stanfield was a prominent English painter who was known for his large-scale paintings of dramatic marine subjects and landscapes. The art critic John Ruskin called him the “leader of our English Realists”. (more…)
Francis Owen Salisbury (1874-1962)
Francis Owen Salisbury (18 December 1874 – 31 August 1962) was an English artist known on both sides of the Atlantic as ‘Britain’s Painter Laureate’ who specialised in portraits, large canvases of historical and ceremonial events, stained glass and book illustration. (more…)
Ernest Raymond (1888-1974)
Ernest Raymond was a British novelist who was best known for his novel Tell England. (more…)
James Ramsay MacDonald
James Ramsay Macdonald was one of the three principal founders of the Labour party; he was a leader of the party and the first Labour Prime Minister. (more…)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Gerard Manley Hopkins was the eldest of nine children born to Manley and Catherine Hopkins. Manley, the founder of a marine insurance company, was also an accomplished amateur poet and composer. (more…)
Sir David Low (1891-1963)
Sir David Alexander Cecil Low was a self-taught caricaturist and cartoonist. He was born in New Zealand, migrated to Sydney in 1911 and came to London in 1919, where he stayed and made his career and his home. (more…)
Commemorative Plaques in Hampstead
by Juliette Sonabend.
Hampstead has been home to many famous and influential people, from those who have changed the way we think, to those who have changed the way we shop.
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George Orwell (1903-1950)
Pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair
The English novelist, essayist, and critic, famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). (more…)
Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning was as born in London in 1907 and grew up in Cannon Place, Hampstead.
She was the daughter of the famous actor/manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and the actress Muriel Beaumont. (more…)
