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| Name: | Wace, Henry (1836-1924) |
| Brief: | Administrator and historian, Principal of KCL, Dean of Canterbury |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1898-1900 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wace, Henry (1836-1924) |
| Brief: | Administrator and historian, Principal of KCL, Dean of Canterbury |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Mecklenburgh Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1881 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Waddell, Helen Jane (1889-1965) |
| Brief: | Poet, translator and playwright best known for her historical novel 'Peter Abelard' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 32 Primrose Hill Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1936-1959 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Waddell, Helen Jane (1889-1965) |
| Brief: | Poet, translator and playwright best known for her historical novel 'Peter Abelard' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Healey Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1965 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waddy, Frederick (1848-1901) |
| Brief: | Caricaturist, cartoonist and printmaker. |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Holly Village |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1880-1883 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wadmore, James (1782-1853) |
| Brief: | Art collector whose pictures included old masters and modern English artists including Turner, David Wilkie and Thomas Webster |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Hampstead Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1782 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Waite, Robert Thorne (1842-1935) |
| Brief: | Painter, mostly in watercolour, of bright and airy landscapes and pastoral scenes |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://chrisbeetles.com/artist/852/robert-thorne-waite-rws |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Dartmouth Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1881 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waite, Robert Thorne (1842-1935) |
| Brief: | Painter, mostly in watercolour, of bright and airy landscapes and pastoral scenes |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://chrisbeetles.com/artist/852/robert-thorne-waite-rws |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Maitland Park Villas |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1884-1907 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Waite, Robert Thorne (1842-1935) |
| Brief: | Painter, mostly in watercolour, of bright and airy landscapes and pastoral scenes |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://chrisbeetles.com/artist/852/robert-thorne-waite-rws |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 The Mall Studios |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1873-1882 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waite, Robert Thorne (1842-1935) |
| Brief: | Painter, mostly in watercolour, of bright and airy landscapes and pastoral scenes |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://chrisbeetles.com/artist/852/robert-thorne-waite-rws |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 25 Mornington Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1870 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waithman, Robert (1764-1833) |
| Brief: | Master draper who advocated reform on issues such as suffrage and the corn laws. He became an MP for the City of London and Lord Mayor of London |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Woburn Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1829-1833 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wakeford, John (1859-1930) |
| Brief: | Clergyman who was convicted of adultery and deprived of his post as Archdeacon of Stow in a celebrated court case |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Prince of Wales Road |
| Contemp. address: | 21 Claremont Terrace |
| Resident: | 1859 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wakley, Thomas (1795-1862) |
| Brief: | Physician, founder of The Lancet, a radical MP and a celebrated coroner |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1828-1848 |
| Notes: | LCC blue plaque |
| Name: | Wakley, Thomas (1795-1862) |
| Brief: | Physician, founder of The Lancet, a radical MP and a celebrated coroner |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 33 Guilford Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1849-1853 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Walbrook [formerly Wohlbrück], (Adolf Wilhelm) Anton (1896-1967) |
| Brief: | Film actor best known for his roles in 'Gaslight', 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' and 'The Red Shoes'. |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 69 Frognal |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1967 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waldron, Francis Godolphin (1743-1818) |
| Brief: | Playwright, actor, editor and bookseller. His 'The Virgin Queen', a sequel to The Tempest, is generally regarded as one of the worst pieces of drama inspired by Shakespeare |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near Red Lion Square |
| Contemp. address: | Orange Street |
| Resident: | 1818 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Waley [formerly Schloss], Arthur David (1889-1966) |
| Brief: | Orientalist and sinologist who translated Chinese and Japanese poetry and became a Companion of Honour |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 36 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1922-1933 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waley [formerly Schloss], Arthur David (1889-1966) |
| Brief: | Orientalist and sinologist who translated Chinese and Japanese poetry and became a Companion of Honour |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 50 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939-1962 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waley [formerly Schloss], Arthur David (1889-1966) |
| Brief: | Orientalist and sinologist who translated Chinese and Japanese poetry and became a Companion of Honour |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Great James Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1962-1963 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waley [formerly Schloss], Arthur David (1889-1966) |
| Brief: | Orientalist and sinologist who translated Chinese and Japanese poetry and became a Companion of Honour |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 55 Cartwright Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1920-1921 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waley [formerly Schloss], Arthur David (1889-1966) |
| Brief: | Orientalist and sinologist who translated Chinese and Japanese poetry and became a Companion of Honour |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Hotel Russell, Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1933-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waley-Cohen, Sir Bernard Nathaniel, first baronet (1914-1991) |
| Brief: | Businessman, Lord Mayor of London, chairman of UCL |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 The Grove |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1947-1954 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waley-Cohen, Sir Bernard Nathaniel, first baronet (1914-1991) |
| Brief: | Businessman, Lord Mayor of London, chairman of UCL |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 62 Elsworthy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1956-1958 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waley-Cohen, Sir Bernard Nathaniel, first baronet (1914-1991) |
| Brief: | Businessman, Lord Mayor of London, chairman of UCL |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Athlone House, Hampstead Lane |
| Contemp. address: | Caen Wood Towers |
| Resident: | 1936-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Walford, Cornelius (1827-1885) |
| Brief: | Writer on insurance matters and collector of books related to insurance. His library was bought by the New York Equitable Life Insurance Company. |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Belsize Grove |
| Contemp. address: | 86 Belsize Park Gardens |
| Resident: | 1881-1885 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Walford, Edward (1823-1897) |
| Brief: | Magazine editor and a compiler of reference works, perhaps best known for the final four volumes of 'Old and New London' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 17 Church Row |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861-1886 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Walker, (William) Sidney (1795-1846) |
| Brief: | Literary scholar who suffered from mental illness |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Euston Station site |
| Contemp. address: | 26 Melton Crescent |
| Resident: | 1836 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Walker, Francis (1809-1874) |
| Brief: | Entomologist who wrote over 300 scientific papers and notes but was once described as a careless taxonomist |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | South Grove |
| Contemp. address: | St Michael's House |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Walker, Francis (1809-1874) |
| Brief: | Entomologist who wrote over 300 scientific papers and notes but was once described as a careless taxonomist |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 50 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | 49 Bedford Square |
| Resident: | 1836-1852 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Walker, Francis Sylvester (1848-1916) |
| Brief: | Painter of landscapes, portraits and genre works, illustrator and etcher |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 6 Thurlow Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871-1882 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Walker, Francis Sylvester (1848-1916) |
| Brief: | Painter of landscapes, portraits and genre works, illustrator and etcher |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 1 England's Lane |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1883-1896 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Walker, Horatio (1858-1938) |
| Brief: | Painter who depicted scenes of rural life in Canada, influenced by the Barbizon school |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Primrose Hill Studios, Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1906 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Walker, James (~1759-~1824) |
| Brief: | Mezzotint engraver, appointed Engraver to Her Imperial Majesty by Empress Catherine II of Russia |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 15 Conway Street |
| Contemp. address: | 8 Conway Street |
| Resident: | 1803-1810 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Walker, James Pattison (1823-1906) |
| Brief: | Surgeon who served as Surgeon-General in the Indian Medical Service |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 32 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1878-1895 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Walker, Leonard (1877-1964) |
| Brief: | Painter and stained glass designer, Principal of the St John's Wood Art School, Master of the Art Workers' Guild |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 151A King Henry's Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1926-1964 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913) |
| Brief: | Naturalist and explorer, conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection independently of Darwin, social reformer, investigated paranormal phenomena. |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 168 Albany Street |
| Contemp. address: | 44 Upper Albany Street |
| Resident: | 1852-1854 |
| Notes: | Also, briefly at 43 Upper Albany Street. Neither house remains. |
| Name: | Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913) |
| Brief: | Naturalist and explorer, conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection independently of Darwin, social reformer, investigated paranormal phenomena. |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 St Mark's Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1865-1870 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wallace, Joseph (1821-1910) |
| Brief: | Activist for vegetarianism and food reform, prepared and sold patent medicines |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Marylebone Road |
| Contemp. address: | 4 Albany Terrace |
| Resident: | 1895-1900 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wallace, Sir Cuthbert Sidney (1867-1944) |
| Brief: | Surgeon, dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of London, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Cambridge Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1932-1944 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waller, Horace (1833-1896) |
| Brief: | Anti-slavery activist, missionary and clergyman who edited David Livingstone's 'Last Journals' |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Tavistock Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1833-1845 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Waller, Kenneth (1927-2000) |
| Brief: | Character actor, Grandad in 'Bread' and Old Mr. Grace in 'Are You Being Served' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Haverstock Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1966-1982 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Waller, Samuel Edmund (1850-1903) |
| Brief: | Genre and animal painter whose pictures often featured horses |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 81 Haverstock Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901-1902 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wallich, Nathaniel (1785-1854) |
| Brief: | Surgeon and botanist who worked in India where he was superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. Collected some 20,500 specimens and wrote 35 papers |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 96 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | 5 Upper Gower Street |
| Resident: | 1847-1854 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wallis, Henry (1830-1916) |
| Brief: | Pre-Raphaelite painter, writer and ceramics expert, his 'death of Chatterton' is especially well known |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 62 Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1859-1862 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wallis, Henry (1830-1916) |
| Brief: | Pre-Raphaelite painter, writer and ceramics expert, his 'death of Chatterton' is especially well known |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Gray's Inn Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1855-1858 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wallis, Henry (1830-1916) |
| Brief: | Pre-Raphaelite painter, writer and ceramics expert, his 'death of Chatterton' is especially well known |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Brecknock Road |
| Contemp. address: | 17 Talbot Road |
| Resident: | 1854 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Wallis, Henry (1830-1916) |
| Brief: | Pre-Raphaelite painter, writer and ceramics expert, his 'death of Chatterton' is especially well known |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Gray's Inn Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1862-1864 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wallis, Henry (1830-1916) |
| Brief: | Pre-Raphaelite painter, writer and ceramics expert, his 'death of Chatterton' is especially well known |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Red Lion Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1873 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wallis, Henry (1830-1916) |
| Brief: | Pre-Raphaelite painter, writer and ceramics expert, his 'death of Chatterton' is especially well known |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 183 St Pancras Way |
| Contemp. address: | 24 Brecknock Crescent |
| Resident: | 1874-1877 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Walpole, Sir Spencer (1839-1907) |
| Brief: | Historian and civil servant, (inspector of fisheries and secretary to the Post Office). His principal work is the 'History of England from 1815' in 6 volumes |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Serle Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1839 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Walter, John (1737-1812) |
| Brief: | Printer and newspaper proprietor, founder of the 'Daily Universal Register' which became 'The Times' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Queen Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | ~1781 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Walters, Sir Roger Talbot (1917-2010) |
| Brief: | Chief Architect of the Greater London Council who worked on the Thames Barrier and the redevelopment of Covent Garden |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 46 Princess Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1976-2010 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Walton, Sir William Turner (1902-1983) |
| Brief: | Composer, his best known pieces include coronation marches and Belshazzar's Feast |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Hollyberry Lane |
| Contemp. address: | 10 Holly Place |
| Resident: | 1935-1948 |
| Notes: | Hampstead Plaque Fund plaque |
| Name: | Warburton, William (1698-1779) |
| Brief: | Writer, literary critic and Bishop of Gloucester. He edited editions of the works of William Shakespeare and his friend Alexander Pope. |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Bedford Row |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1746-1757 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ward [née Arnold], Mary Augusta (1851-1920) |
| Brief: | Novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. She worked to improve education for the poor and she became the founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League. |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 61 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1881-1891 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ward, (James) Rowland (1847-1912) |
| Brief: | Taxidermist, founder of the firm Rowland Ward Ltd, taxidermists and publishers of natural history books and big-game hunting narratives |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Varndell Street |
| Contemp. address: | 21 Edward Street |
| Resident: | 1847-1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ward, Edward [Ned] (1667-1731) |
| Brief: | Satirical writer and publican who wrote that it is better 'To live by Malt, than starve by Meter' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Fulwood Place |
| Contemp. address: | Fullwood's Rents |
| Resident: | 1731 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Ward, George Raphael (1799-1878) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits and mezzotint engraver |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp15516 |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 31 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1835-1858 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ward, George Raphael (1799-1878) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits and mezzotint engraver |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp15516 |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 38 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1859-1873 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ward, George Raphael (1799-1878) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits and mezzotint engraver |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp15516 |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1874-1878 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ward, John (1805-1890) |
| Brief: | Diplomat, chargé d'affaires and consul-general for the Hanse towns in north Germany |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Lower Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | Netley Cottage |
| Resident: | 1837 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ward, Sir Adolphus William (1837-1924) |
| Brief: | Historian, professor of history and English literature in Owens College, Manchester, president of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Lower Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | Netley Cottage |
| Resident: | 1837 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ward, Vernon De Beauvoir (1905-1985) |
| Brief: | Painter and commercial artist noted for his works of flowers, birds and Edwardian subjects |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 South Hill Park Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1933-1985 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ward, Vernon De Beauvoir (1905-1985) |
| Brief: | Painter and commercial artist noted for his works of flowers, birds and Edwardian subjects |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 South End Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1905-1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ward, William (1762-1826) |
| Brief: | Engraver to the Duke of York, the Prince of Wales, and associate engraver to the Royal Academy |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 199 Hampstead Road |
| Contemp. address: | 12 Mornington Place |
| Resident: | 1825-1826 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ward, William (1762-1826) |
| Brief: | Engraver to the Duke of York, the Prince of Wales, and associate engraver to the Royal Academy |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 57 Warren Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1819 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wardell, Mary (1832-1917) |
| Brief: | Philanthropist whose establishment for the treatment of Scarlet Fever reduced the prevalence of the infection in London |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | CHS Newsletter 313 |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 55 Primrose Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | 2 Stanley Gardens |
| Resident: | 1881-1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ware, Isaac (1704-1766) |
| Brief: | Architect and translator of Palladio |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near Church Row |
| Contemp. address: | Frognal Hall |
| Resident: | 1759-1765 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Warne, Frederick (1825-1901) |
| Brief: | Publisher best known for illustrated books for children (e.g. Kate Greenaway and Walter Crane) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 58 Doughty Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1855-1870 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Warne, Frederick (1825-1901) |
| Brief: | Publisher best known for illustrated books for children (e.g. Kate Greenaway and Walter Crane) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871-1901 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Warner [née Huddart], Mary Amelia (1804-1854) |
| Brief: | Actress and theatre manager, one of the leading players of her time, most notably in tragedies |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 203 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Euston Place |
| Resident: | 1854 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Warner, Jack [real name Horace John Waters] (1895-1981) |
| Brief: | Film actor who is now best remembered for his television role of 'Dixon of Dock Green' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Prince Albert Road |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Albert Road |
| Resident: | 1931-1933 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Warner, Jack [real name Horace John Waters] (1895-1981) |
| Brief: | Film actor who is now best remembered for his television role of 'Dixon of Dock Green' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Canfield House, Canfield Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1935 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Warner, Jack [real name Horace John Waters] (1895-1981) |
| Brief: | Film actor who is now best remembered for his television role of 'Dixon of Dock Green' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 56 Greencroft Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1938-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Warner, Joseph (1717-1801) |
| Brief: | Surgeon, the first member of the newly formed Royal College of Surgeons and the first to tie the common carotid artery |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146645219 |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Hatton Garden |
| Contemp. address: | Hatton Street |
| Resident: | 1801 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Warren, Edward Prioleau (1856-1937) |
| Brief: | Architect known principally for domestic buildings in an understated revival of English late 17th century styles |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Warren, Marjory Winsome (1897-1960) |
| Brief: | Geriatrician, sometimes called the mother of modern geriatric medicine |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 73 Hillway |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1957-1960 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Warren, Samuel (1807-1877) |
| Brief: | Barrister, novelist, MP and Master of Lunacy |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Woburn Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1841-1860 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Waterhouse, George Robert (1810-1888) |
| Brief: | Zoologist, curator of the Zoological Society of London's museum who contributed the volume Mammalia to Darwin's five-part 'Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle'. |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | British Museum, Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861-1878 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waterhouse, George Robert (1810-1888) |
| Brief: | Zoologist, curator of the Zoological Society of London's museum who contributed the volume Mammalia to Darwin's five-part 'Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle'. |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Duke's Road |
| Contemp. address: | Duke's Row |
| Resident: | 1812 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) |
| Brief: | Painter in pre-Raphaelite style, artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Primrose Hill Studios, Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1878-1885 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) |
| Brief: | Painter in pre-Raphaelite style, artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Primrose Hill Studios, Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1886-1900 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) |
| Brief: | Painter in pre-Raphaelite style, artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 44 Chalcot Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) |
| Brief: | Painter in pre-Raphaelite style, artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Regent's Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1890 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waterlow, Sir Ernest Albert (1850-1919) |
| Brief: | Landscape and animal painter, influenced by the Barbizon school |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Maresfield Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1892-1919 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Waterlow, Sir Sydney Hedley, first baronet (1822-1906) |
| Brief: | Philanthropist and Liberal Party politician who donated Waterlow Park to the public as "a garden for the gardenless" |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 80 Regent's Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1867 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Waterlow, Sir Sydney Hedley, first baronet (1822-1906) |
| Brief: | Philanthropist and Liberal Party politician who donated Waterlow Park to the public as "a garden for the gardenless" |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Highgate High Street |
| Contemp. address: | Fairseat House |
| Resident: | 1856-1882 |
| Notes: | Part demolished |
| Name: | Waters, (Florence) Elsie (1893-1990) |
| Brief: | Gert in 'Gert and Daisy', "the most successful female double-act in the history of British music hall and variety" |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Prince Albert Road |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Albert Road |
| Resident: | 1931-1933 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waters, Doris Ethel (1899-1978) |
| Brief: | Daisy in 'Gert and Daisy', "the most successful female double-act in the history of British music hall and variety" |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Prince Albert Road |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Albert Road |
| Resident: | 1931-1933 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Watson, John Dawson (1832-1892) |
| Brief: | Painter, theatrical designer and a prolific and notable illustrator of books and periodicals |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Primrose Hill Studios, Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1878-1880 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Watson, John Dawson (1832-1892) |
| Brief: | Painter, theatrical designer and a prolific and notable illustrator of books and periodicals |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Murray Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1854 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Watson, John Dawson (1832-1892) |
| Brief: | Painter, theatrical designer and a prolific and notable illustrator of books and periodicals |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 St Augustine's Road |
| Contemp. address: | 12 St Augustine's Road |
| Resident: | 1855-1859 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Watson, John Dawson (1832-1892) |
| Brief: | Painter, theatrical designer and a prolific and notable illustrator of books and periodicals |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Oval Road |
| Contemp. address: | 8 Oval Road |
| Resident: | 1861-1863 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Watson, John Dawson (1832-1892) |
| Brief: | Painter, theatrical designer and a prolific and notable illustrator of books and periodicals |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 36 Gloucester Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | 37 Gloucester Road |
| Resident: | 1865 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Watson, Sir Frederick Beilby (1773-1852) |
| Brief: | Master of the Household for George IV, William IV and the early days of Victoria |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Marylebone Road |
| Contemp. address: | 4 Albany Terrace |
| Resident: | 1841-1848 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Watson, Sir William (1715-1787) |
| Brief: | Physician to the Foundling Hospital and scientist who helped to introduce the work of Linnaeus into England and conducted experiments with electricity |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Lincoln's Inn Fields |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1757-1787 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Watt, Donald Cameron (1928-2014) |
| Brief: | Historian, fellow of the British Academy and the RSA, Wolfson prize for history |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Mecklenburgh Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1960-1983 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Watts, Arthur George (1883-1935) |
| Brief: | Illustrator and artist, frequent contributor to Radio Times and Punch |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21A Regent's Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Watts, Arthur George (1883-1935) |
| Brief: | Illustrator and artist, frequent contributor to Radio Times and Punch |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Holly Walk |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Holly Place |
| Resident: | 1921-1935 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Watts, Frederick Waters (1800-1870) |
| Brief: | Landscape painter whose work is sometimes mis-attributed to Constable |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | between Camden High St and Kentish Town Rd |
| Contemp. address: | 6 Union Terrace |
| Resident: | 1831-1837 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Watts, Frederick Waters (1800-1870) |
| Brief: | Landscape painter whose work is sometimes mis-attributed to Constable |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 38 Belsize Grove |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Haverstock Terrace |
| Resident: | 1838-1861 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Watts, Frederick Waters (1800-1870) |
| Brief: | Landscape painter whose work is sometimes mis-attributed to Constable |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 11 Lawn Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1870 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Watts, Henry (1815-1884) |
| Brief: | Chemist who translated 18 volumes of Gmelin's 'Handbuch der Chemie' and edited the Journal of the Chemical Society |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 151 King Henry's Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871-1884 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Watts, Henry (1815-1884) |
| Brief: | Chemist who translated 18 volumes of Gmelin's 'Handbuch der Chemie' and edited the Journal of the Chemical Society |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Provost Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Watts-Dunton, (Walter) Theodore (1832-1914) |
| Brief: | Writer and poet, principal poetry critic of The Athenaeum |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Great James Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1872-1873 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waugh, Alexander Raban [Alec] (1898-1981) |
| Brief: | Novelist, best remembered for 'The Loom of Youth' and 'Island in the Sun' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 11 Hillfield Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1898-1907 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St John (1903-1966) |
| Brief: | One of the finest novelists of the C20, also journalist and writer of biographies and travel books |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 11 Hillfield Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1903-1907 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Way, Thomas (1837-1915) |
| Brief: | Lithographer, engraver and general printer who encouraged other artists to use lithography, especially James McNeill Whistler |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 17 Pond Street |
| Contemp. address: | 2 Pond Street |
| Resident: | 1881 |
| Notes: | Family home of Way, Thomas Robert (1861-1913) |
| Name: | Way, Thomas (1837-1915) |
| Brief: | Lithographer, engraver and general printer who encouraged other artists to use lithography, especially James McNeill Whistler |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Bedford Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | 17 Tavistock Street |
| Resident: | 1891 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Way, Thomas (1837-1915) |
| Brief: | Lithographer, engraver and general printer who encouraged other artists to use lithography, especially James McNeill Whistler |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21 Brunswick Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Way, Thomas (1837-1915) |
| Brief: | Lithographer, engraver and general printer who encouraged other artists to use lithography, especially James McNeill Whistler |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 Eton Villas |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911-1915 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Way, Thomas Robert (1861-1913) |
| Brief: | Lithographer who published a biography of Whistler and a catalogue raisonné of his prints. Remembered for a series of eight limited-edition books on London, illustrated with his lithographs |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s), see Way, Thomas (1837-1915) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 40 Doughty Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Way, Thomas Robert (1861-1913) |
| Brief: | Lithographer who published a biography of Whistler and a catalogue raisonné of his prints. Remembered for a series of eight limited-edition books on London, illustrated with his lithographs |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s), see Way, Thomas (1837-1915) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 110 Regent's Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1900-1913 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Way, Thomas Robert (1861-1913) |
| Brief: | Lithographer who published a biography of Whistler and a catalogue raisonné of his prints. Remembered for a series of eight limited-edition books on London, illustrated with his lithographs |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s), see Way, Thomas (1837-1915) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Chalcot Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1898-1899 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Webb [née Meredith], Mary Gladys (1881-1927) |
| Brief: | Novelist and poet whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside, ("soil and gloom romance") |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 117 Adelaide Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1921 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Webb [née Meredith], Mary Gladys (1881-1927) |
| Brief: | Novelist and poet whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside, ("soil and gloom romance") |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Hampstead Grove |
| Contemp. address: | 5 Grove Cottages |
| Resident: | 1924 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Webb [née Potter], Martha Beatrice (1858-1943) |
| Brief: | Social reformer and diarist, one of the founders of the London School of Economics and the Fabian Society |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Netherhall Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1893 |
| Notes: | GLC blue plaque |
| Name: | Webb, (John) Archibald (1866-1947) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator who illustrated over 150 books, mainly boys' adventure stories |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s) see Webb, James (1835-1895) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 49 Belsize Park |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Webb, (John) Archibald (1866-1947) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator who illustrated over 150 books, mainly boys' adventure stories |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s) see Webb, James (1835-1895) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Manor Mansions, Belsize Park Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1888 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Webb, Francis Cornelius (1826-1873) |
| Brief: | Physician and medical writer, editor-in-chief of the Medical Times and Gazette |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Woburn Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861-1873 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Webb, James (1835-1895) |
| Brief: | Painter specialising in marine views and landscapes |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://artuk.org/discover/artists/webb-james-18351895 |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 61 Belsize Park |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1869-1873 |
| Notes: | Family home of Webb, (John) Archibald (1866-1947) |
| Name: | Webb, Philip Speakman (1831-1915) |
| Brief: | Architect and designer sometimes called the Father of Arts and Crafts Architecture |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Raymond Buildings |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1864-1899 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Webb, Sidney James (1859-1947) |
| Brief: | Social reformer and politician, co-founded the London School of Economics and the New Statesman magazine |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Netherhall Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1893 |
| Notes: | GLC blue plaque |
| Name: | Webb, Sidney James (1859-1947) |
| Brief: | Social reformer and politician, co-founded the London School of Economics and the New Statesman magazine |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Park Village East |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1890-1892 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Webb, Sidney James (1859-1947) |
| Brief: | Social reformer and politician, co-founded the London School of Economics and the New Statesman magazine |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 27 Keppel Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1885-1889 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Webbe, Samuel, the elder (1740-1816) |
| Brief: | Composer of glees and Roman Catholic church music |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Gray's Inn Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1814-1816 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Weber, (Carl Emil) Otto (1832-1888) |
| Brief: | Genre, landscape, and animal painter, one of the first to paint in the Breton village of Pont-Aven which later developed into an artists' colony |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 32 Great Ormond Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1887-1888 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Webster, Margaret (1905-1972) |
| Brief: | Actress, producer and director, best known for her Broadway productions of Shakespeare |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Primrose Hill Studios, Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1970-1972 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Webster, Margaret (1905-1972) |
| Brief: | Actress, producer and director, best known for her Broadway productions of Shakespeare |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 55 Christchurch Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1957-1967 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wedderburn, Alexander, first earl of Rosslyn, Baron Loughborough (1733-1805) |
| Brief: | Lawyer and politician, served as Lord High Chancellor, first to suggest granting Samuel Johnson a pension |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | Bolton House |
| Resident: | 1799-1803 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wedderburn, Alexander, first earl of Rosslyn, Baron Loughborough (1733-1805) |
| Brief: | Lawyer and politician, served as Lord High Chancellor, first to suggest granting Samuel Johnson a pension |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near Lyndhurst Road |
| Contemp. address: | Rosslyn House |
| Resident: | 1794-1802 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wedderburn, Alexander, first earl of Rosslyn, Baron Loughborough (1733-1805) |
| Brief: | Lawyer and politician, served as Lord High Chancellor, first to suggest granting Samuel Johnson a pension |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1781-1798 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wedgwood, Hensleigh (1803-1891) |
| Brief: | Philologist and barrister, author of 'A Dictionary of English Etymology', vice-president of the Society for Psychical Research |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 94 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1890-1891 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wedgwood, Hensleigh (1803-1891) |
| Brief: | Philologist and barrister, author of 'A Dictionary of English Etymology', vice-president of the Society for Psychical Research |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 42 Chester Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1847-1851 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wedgwood, Hensleigh (1803-1891) |
| Brief: | Philologist and barrister, author of 'A Dictionary of English Etymology', vice-president of the Society for Psychical Research |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Cumberland Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1865-1871 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wedgwood, Hensleigh (1803-1891) |
| Brief: | Philologist and barrister, author of 'A Dictionary of English Etymology', vice-president of the Society for Psychical Research |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 32 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Gower Street |
| Resident: | 1843-1845 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wedgwood, Hensleigh (1803-1891) |
| Brief: | Philologist and barrister, author of 'A Dictionary of English Etymology', vice-president of the Society for Psychical Research |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Cumberland Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | 17 Cumberland Terrace |
| Resident: | 1860 |
| Notes: | Rebuilt as flats behind facade |
| Name: | Weekes, (Herbert) William (1841-1914) |
| Brief: | Painter of genre and animal scenes, frequent RA exhibitor, contributor to The Illustrated London News |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21 Oppidans Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1879-1914 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Weekes, (Herbert) William (1841-1914) |
| Brief: | Painter of genre and animal scenes, frequent RA exhibitor, contributor to The Illustrated London News |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 141 Prince of Wales Road |
| Contemp. address: | 129 Prince of Wales Road |
| Resident: | 1870-1873 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wehnert, Edward Henry (1813-1868) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter and book illustrator |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 48 Fortess Road |
| Contemp. address: | 9 Fortess Terrace |
| Resident: | 1868 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wehnert, Edward Henry (1813-1868) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter and book illustrator |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 66 Fortess Road |
| Contemp. address: | 18 Fortess Terrace |
| Resident: | 1861-1865 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wehnert, Edward Henry (1813-1868) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter and book illustrator |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Shaftsbury Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury |
| Resident: | 1839 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Wehnert, Edward Henry (1813-1868) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter and book illustrator |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Bloomsbury Street |
| Contemp. address: | ~15 Plumtree Street |
| Resident: | 1841 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Wehnert, Edward Henry (1813-1868) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter and book illustrator |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 23 Bloomsbury Street |
| Contemp. address: | 23 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square |
| Resident: | 1845 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wehnert, Edward Henry (1813-1868) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter and book illustrator |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Coram Street |
| Contemp. address: | 12 Great Coram Street |
| Resident: | 1860 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Weinreb, Benjamin (1912-1999) |
| Brief: | Bookseller and expert on the history of London |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 6 Great Russell Mansions, 60 Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1956-1966 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Weinreb, Benjamin (1912-1999) |
| Brief: | Bookseller and expert on the history of London |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 37 Doughty Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1938 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Weinreb, Benjamin (1912-1999) |
| Brief: | Bookseller and expert on the history of London |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 18 Belsize Park Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Weinreb, Benjamin (1912-1999) |
| Brief: | Bookseller and expert on the history of London |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Windle House, 16 Millfield Lane |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1971-1983 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Weir, Andrew, first Baron Inverforth (1865-1955) |
| Brief: | Shipowner, founder of Andrew Weir and Co., minister in the coalition government during and after WWI |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Inverforth House, North End Way |
| Contemp. address: | The Hill |
| Resident: | 1926-1955 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Weir, William (1802-1858) |
| Brief: | Journalist who espoused liberal causes and became editor of the Daily News |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 4 Hunter Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1857-1858 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Weiss, Willoughby Hunter (1820-1867) |
| Brief: | Oratorio and opera singer and composer, one of the most celebrated bass singers of the 19th century |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Gloucester Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | 45 Gloucester Road |
| Resident: | 1861-1867 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Weisz, George (1929-2020) |
| Brief: | Mechanical engineer and philanthropist who invented of a new type of artificial ventilator, for use in hospitals |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Cannon Cottage, Well Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 2008-2020 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Weisz, George (1929-2020) |
| Brief: | Mechanical engineer and philanthropist who invented of a new type of artificial ventilator, for use in hospitals |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 40 New End Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 2003-2007 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Weldon [née Birkinshaw], Fay [Franklin] (1931-2023) |
| Brief: | Novelist, best known for 'The Life and Loves of a She-Devil' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 3 Chalcot Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1961-1976 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Weldon [née Birkinshaw], Fay [Franklin] (1931-2023) |
| Brief: | Novelist, best known for 'The Life and Loves of a She-Devil' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 24 Ryland Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1995 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Weldon [née Birkinshaw], Fay [Franklin] (1931-2023) |
| Brief: | Novelist, best known for 'The Life and Loves of a She-Devil' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 1 Kidderpore Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1995-2000 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Weldon [née Thomas], Georgina (1837-1914) |
| Brief: | Campaigner against the lunacy laws and celebrated litigant. Hosted Charles Gounod during the Franco-Prussian War |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | BMA House |
| Contemp. address: | Tavistock House, 1 Tavistock Villas |
| Resident: | 1870-1882 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wellcome, Henry (1853-1936) |
| Brief: | Pharmaceutical entrepreneur, collector of medical artefacts, founded the Wellcome Trust |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Gloucester Gate |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1920-1936 |
| Notes: | EH blue plaque |
| Name: | Wellesley, Gerald Valerian, 7th Duke of Wellington (1885-1972) |
| Brief: | Diplomat, soldier and architect, Surveyor of the King's Works of Art. He gave Apsley House and its artworks to the nation |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Chester Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1937 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wells [married name Whitford], Helena (1761-1824) |
| Brief: | Novelist and advocate of improved education for young ladies |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Mabledon Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1817-1824 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wells, Alberta Constance [Dee], Lady Ayer (1925-2003) |
| Brief: | Journalist, novelist, and broadcaster (Three After Six) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Conway Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1961-1964 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wells, Alberta Constance [Dee], Lady Ayer (1925-2003) |
| Brief: | Journalist, novelist, and broadcaster (Three After Six) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Regent's Park Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1965-1979 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wells, Herbert George [H.G.] (1866-1946) |
| Brief: | Novelist and social commentator, best remembered for his science fiction novels (The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Mornington Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1894 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wells, Herbert George [H.G.] (1866-1946) |
| Brief: | Novelist and social commentator, best remembered for his science fiction novels (The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Mornington Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | 12 Mornington Road |
| Resident: | 1894 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wells, Herbert George [H.G.] (1866-1946) |
| Brief: | Novelist and social commentator, best remembered for his science fiction novels (The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 17 Church Row |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1909-1913 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wells, Herbert George [H.G.] (1866-1946) |
| Brief: | Novelist and social commentator, best remembered for his science fiction novels (The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 46 Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1889-1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wells, Herbert George [H.G.] (1866-1946) |
| Brief: | Novelist and social commentator, best remembered for his science fiction novels (The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1888-1889 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wells, Herbert George [H.G.] (1866-1946) |
| Brief: | Novelist and social commentator, best remembered for his science fiction novels (The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 181 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1884-1886 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wells, Sir Thomas Spencer, first baronet (1818-1897) |
| Brief: | Gynaecologist, surgeon to Queen Victoria, performed pioneering work in abdominal surgery |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near North End Way |
| Contemp. address: | Golders Hill House |
| Resident: | 1871-1897 |
| Notes: | Demolished, straddled the borough boundary |
| Name: | Welwitsch, Friedrich Martin Josef (1806-1872) |
| Brief: | Austrian explorer and botanist who collected many thousands of plants in tropical Africa, many new to science |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 15 Fitzroy Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871-1872 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wernher, Sir Harold Augustus (1893-1973) |
| Brief: | Army officer and diamond magnate who played an important role in coordinating Operation Overlord |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Royal College of Physicians |
| Contemp. address: | Someries House, 11 St Andrew's Place |
| Resident: | 1919-1940 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wesley, Samuel (1766-1837) |
| Brief: | English organist and composer in the late Georgian period |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 44 17-27 (2020) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Arlington Road |
| Contemp. address: | 9 Arlington Street |
| Resident: | 1805-1808 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wesley, Samuel (1766-1837) |
| Brief: | English organist and composer in the late Georgian period |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 44 17-27 (2020) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 54 Arlington Road |
| Contemp. address: | 27 Arlington Street |
| Resident: | 1808-1810 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wesley, Samuel (1766-1837) |
| Brief: | English organist and composer in the late Georgian period |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 44 17-27 (2020) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21 Hampstead Road |
| Contemp. address: | 11 Adam's Row |
| Resident: | 1810-1812 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wesley, Samuel (1766-1837) |
| Brief: | English organist and composer in the late Georgian period |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 44 17-27 (2020) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 259 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | 13 Tottenham Court, New Road |
| Resident: | 1812-1813 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wesley, Samuel (1766-1837) |
| Brief: | English organist and composer in the late Georgian period |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 44 17-27 (2020) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Gower Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1813-1817 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wesley, Samuel (1766-1837) |
| Brief: | English organist and composer in the late Georgian period |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 44 17-27 (2020) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Melton Street |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Euston Street |
| Resident: | 1818-1830 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wesley, Samuel (1766-1837) |
| Brief: | English organist and composer in the late Georgian period |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 44 17-27 (2020) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 177 Hampstead Road |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Mornington Place |
| Resident: | 1830-1832 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Westall, Richard (1765-1836) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits, historical and literary events, best known for his portraits of Byron, Queen Victoria's drawing master |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Fitzroy Street |
| Contemp. address: | 4 Russell Place |
| Resident: | 1828-1836 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Westall, Richard (1765-1836) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits, historical and literary events, best known for his portraits of Byron, Queen Victoria's drawing master |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 105 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | 54 Upper Charlotte Street |
| Resident: | 1794-1816 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Westall, Richard (1765-1836) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits, historical and literary events, best known for his portraits of Byron, Queen Victoria's drawing master |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 South Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1816-1828 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Westall, William (1781-1850) |
| Brief: | Painter and engraver, mainly landscapes, one of the first artists to work in Australia |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 24 Cartwright Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | 24 Burton Crescent |
| Resident: | 1818-1820 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Westall, William (1781-1850) |
| Brief: | Painter and engraver, mainly landscapes, one of the first artists to work in Australia |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 98 Camden High Street |
| Contemp. address: | 24 Pratt Place |
| Resident: | 1811-1815 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Westall, William (1781-1850) |
| Brief: | Painter and engraver, mainly landscapes, one of the first artists to work in Australia |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 213 Hampstead Road |
| Contemp. address: | 19 Mornington Place |
| Resident: | 1823-1826 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Westermarck, Edvard Alexander (1862-1939) |
| Brief: | Philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist who studied the incest taboo. |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Keppel Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1897-1900 |
| Notes: | Demolished, Anglo-Finnish Society plaque nearby |
| Name: | Westlake, Nathaniel Hubert John (1833-1921) |
| Brief: | Artist specialising in stained glass who painted the vaulted ceiling of St Joseph's Church, Highgate |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Endell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1882 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Westlake, Nathaniel Hubert John (1833-1921) |
| Brief: | Artist specialising in stained glass who painted the vaulted ceiling of St Joseph's Church, Highgate |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Quex Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1883-1892 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Weston, Dame Agnes Elizabeth (1840-1918) |
| Brief: | Philanthropist noted for her work with the Royal Navy who became the first woman given a full ceremonial Royal Navy funeral |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Coram Street |
| Contemp. address: | 35 Great Coram Street |
| Resident: | 1840-1845 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wetherbee, George Faulkner (1851-1920) |
| Brief: | Painter in oil and watercolour, mostly showing idyllic landscapes with small figures of young people |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Redington Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901-1920 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wetherbee, George Faulkner (1851-1920) |
| Brief: | Painter in oil and watercolour, mostly showing idyllic landscapes with small figures of young people |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Chalcot Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1884-1889 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wetherbee, George Faulkner (1851-1920) |
| Brief: | Painter in oil and watercolour, mostly showing idyllic landscapes with small figures of young people |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 37 Steele's Road |
| Contemp. address: | Warrington House, Steele's Road |
| Resident: | 1889-1898 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wetherell, Nathaniel Thomas (1800-1875) |
| Brief: | Geologist who collected fossils from the Camden area and donated some 5000 to the British Museum |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 47 Highgate West Hill |
| Contemp. address: | 52 South Grove |
| Resident: | 1800-1875 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wharry, Olive (1886-1947) |
| Brief: | Artist and suffragette, imprisoned for burning down the tea pavilion at Kew Gardens |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Cambridge Gate |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901-1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wharry, Olive (1886-1947) |
| Brief: | Artist and suffragette, imprisoned for burning down the tea pavilion at Kew Gardens |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1891 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Whately, (Mary) Monica (1889-1960) |
| Brief: | Campaigner for women's rights and civil liberties, a founder of the Six Point Group, LCC member |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Brookfield Mansions, Highgate West Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whately, (Mary) Monica (1889-1960) |
| Brief: | Campaigner for women's rights and civil liberties, a founder of the Six Point Group, LCC member |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 93 Makepeace Mansions, Makepeace Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1950-1960 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wheatley, Dennis Yeats [Yates] (1897-1977) |
| Brief: | Novelist, one of the most successful writers in the world of thrillers and occult stories |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 St John's Wood Park |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1936-1939 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wheatley, Francis (1747-1801) |
| Brief: | Portrait and landscape painter. His picture of the interior of the Irish House of Commons led to many commissions in Ireland |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 115 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | 49 Upper Charlotte Street |
| Resident: | 1789-1793 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wheeler [née Doyle], Anna (1785-1848) |
| Brief: | Writer and advocate of political rights for women and the benefits of contraception |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3809936 |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 106 Camden High Street |
| Contemp. address: | 51 High Street |
| Resident: | 1848 |
| Notes: | Probably rebuilt |
| Name: | Whetham, Sir Charles (1812-1885) |
| Brief: | Businessman and politician who served as Lord Mayor of London and Chairman of the London and Blackwall Railway Co. |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 52 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861-1885 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whicker, (Donald) Alan (1921-2013) |
| Brief: | Journalist and television presenter and broadcaster; Whicker's World was on TV for over 30 years |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 48 Cumberland Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | ~1969 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whinfield, John Rex (1901-1966) |
| Brief: | Chemist, co-inventor of Terylene, the first polyester fibre |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 28 Compayne Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1948-1954 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whipple, Robert Stewart (1871-1953) |
| Brief: | Manufacturer of scientific instruments. His collection of antique scientific instruments formed the basis of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 6, Old Hall, South Grove |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1948-1953 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whipple, Robert Stewart (1871-1953) |
| Brief: | Manufacturer of scientific instruments. His collection of antique scientific instruments formed the basis of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Holly Lodge Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1929-1947 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whishaw, Francis (1804-1856) |
| Brief: | Civil engineer active in railway projects, inventor, secretary of the Society of Arts, writer on railways, promoter of telegraph companies |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Holly Walk |
| Contemp. address: | 8 Holly Place |
| Resident: | 1841 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whishaw, Francis (1804-1856) |
| Brief: | Civil engineer active in railway projects, inventor, secretary of the Society of Arts, writer on railways, promoter of telegraph companies |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Mackworth Street |
| Contemp. address: | 3 Rutland Street |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) |
| Brief: | Painter in oils and watercolor and printmaker, famous for his 'nocturnes', 'The Peacock Room' and his disputes with Ruskin and others |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Heath End House, Spaniards Road |
| Contemp. address: | St. Jude's Cottage |
| Resident: | 1896 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whiston, William (1667-1752) |
| Brief: | Natural philosopher and theologian, friend of Isaac Newton and succeeded him as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | St Cross Street |
| Contemp. address: | Cross Street |
| Resident: | 1711-1721 |
| Notes: | Demolished, location uncertain (Lower End of Crofs-Street) |
| Name: | Whiston, William (1667-1752) |
| Brief: | Natural philosopher and theologian, friend of Isaac Newton and succeeded him as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1724 |
| Notes: | Demolished, location uncertain (overagainst Montague-House) |
| Name: | Whitaker, William (1836-1925) |
| Brief: | Geologist whom some call "the father of English hydrogeology" |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 69 Hatton Garden |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1836 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whitaker, William (1836-1925) |
| Brief: | Geologist whom some call "the father of English hydrogeology" |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Maitland Park Villas |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | White [née Reeves], Amber Blanco (1887-1981) |
| Brief: | Feminist writer and scholar who raised eyebrows by having a child with H. G. Wells |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 44 Downshire Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1916-1981 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | White, Arnold Henry (1848-1925) |
| Brief: | Journalist and anti-immigration campaigner |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Windmill Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1899-1908 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | White, Ethelbert Basil (1891-1972) |
| Brief: | Artist and wood engraver, member of the London Group and the New English Art Club |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Chester Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | White, Ethelbert Basil (1891-1972) |
| Brief: | Artist and wood engraver, member of the London Group and the New English Art Club |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 Hampstead Grove |
| Contemp. address: | 6 Grove Cottages |
| Resident: | 1918-1972 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | White, James (1775-1820) |
| Brief: | Author and advertising agent who developed a fascination with the character of Falstaff. His agency was possibly the first to write copy for clients' advertisements |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 47 Cartwright Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | 47 Burton Crescent |
| Resident: | 1812-1820 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | White, James Martin (1858-1928) |
| Brief: | Businessman and Liberal Party politician, endowed the Department of Sociology at the U. of London |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Cumberland Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1905-1920 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | White, Robert (1645-1703) |
| Brief: | Draughtsman and engraver, his plates made after paintings by Godfrey Kneller are highly regarded |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Barter Street |
| Contemp. address: | Bloomsbury Market |
| Resident: | 1682-1703 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain, demolished |
| Name: | White, Wilfrid Hyde (1903-1991) |
| Brief: | Character actor of stage, screen and radio with a career spanning 6 decades |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Bosinney, Gayton Road |
| Contemp. address: | Vine Cottage, Gayton Road |
| Resident: | 1934-1935 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Whitehead, Phillip (1937-2005) |
| Brief: | Labour party politician, television producer and writer |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 64 Patshull Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1975-1980 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whitehead, Sir James (1834-1917) |
| Brief: | Politician, Lord Mayor of London, co-founder of department store John Barker & Co |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Cambridge Gate |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1892-1903 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whitehorn, Katharine Elizabeth (1928-2021) |
| Brief: | Journalist, columnist, author and radio presenter, notably associated with The Observer |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Nutley Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1959-1965 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whitehorn, Katharine Elizabeth (1928-2021) |
| Brief: | Journalist, columnist, author and radio presenter, notably associated with The Observer |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 Provost Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1966-2018 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whiteing, Richard (1840-1928) |
| Brief: | Journalist and novelist, his best known novel is 'No. 5 John Street' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 45 Mecklenburgh Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1895-1903 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whiteing, Richard (1840-1928) |
| Brief: | Journalist and novelist, his best known novel is 'No. 5 John Street' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 31 Millman Street |
| Contemp. address: | 11 New Millman Street |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Whiteing, Richard (1840-1928) |
| Brief: | Journalist and novelist, his best known novel is 'No. 5 John Street' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Regent's Park Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whiteing, Richard (1840-1928) |
| Brief: | Journalist and novelist, his best known novel is 'No. 5 John Street' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near Spencer Walk |
| Contemp. address: | Burford Close, 35A High Street |
| Resident: | 1928 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Whitelaw, Billie Honor (1932-2014) |
| Brief: | Actor, one of the foremost interpreters of Samuel Beckett |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Camden Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1974-1983 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whiting, Onslow Ernest (1872-1937) |
| Brief: | Sculptor, best known for his war memorials |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 31 Cantelowes Road |
| Contemp. address: | 31 Cantlowes Road |
| Resident: | 1897-1902 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whiting, Onslow Ernest (1872-1937) |
| Brief: | Sculptor, best known for his war memorials |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 North Villas |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1903-1905 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Whittock, Nathaniel (1791-1860) |
| Brief: | Topographical engraver who specialised in bird's-eye views |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 112 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Somers Place East |
| Resident: | 1832-1834 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Whood, Isaac (1689-1752) |
| Brief: | Portrait-painter working in the manner of Godfrey Kneller |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Bloomsbury Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1752 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Whyton, Wallace Victor [Wally] (1929-1997) |
| Brief: | Musician, songwriter and radio and TV personality, mostly on children's programmes |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 34 Gilden Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1961-1965 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Whyton, Wallace Victor [Wally] (1929-1997) |
| Brief: | Musician, songwriter and radio and TV personality, mostly on children's programmes |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Netley Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1956-1959 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wicksteed, Philip Henry (1844-1927) |
| Brief: | Unitarian minister who wrote and lectured on a broad range of subjects including Greek drama, Aristotle, Dante, Wordsworth, economics, and sociology |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Oval Road |
| Contemp. address: | 7 Regent's Park Villas |
| Resident: | 1878-1881 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wicksteed, Philip Henry (1844-1927) |
| Brief: | Unitarian minister who wrote and lectured on a broad range of subjects including Greek drama, Aristotle, Dante, Wordsworth, economics, and sociology |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Endsleigh Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1891 |
| Notes: | Altered |
| Name: | Widdop, Walter (1892-1949) |
| Brief: | Operatic tenor, best remembered for his Wagnerian performances |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Eton Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1947-1949 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Widdop, Walter (1892-1949) |
| Brief: | Operatic tenor, best remembered for his Wagnerian performances |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 36 Eton Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1938-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Widdop, Walter (1892-1949) |
| Brief: | Operatic tenor, best remembered for his Wagnerian performances |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Belsize Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1925-1929 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wigan, Arthur Ladbroke (1785-1847) |
| Brief: | General practitioner with particular interest in insanity which he sought to explain as "duality of the mind" |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near Bayham Street |
| Contemp. address: | Queen Street |
| Resident: | 1847 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain, demolished |
| Name: | Wigan, Arthur Ladbroke (1785-1847) |
| Brief: | General practitioner with particular interest in insanity which he sought to explain as "duality of the mind" |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near St John's Mews |
| Contemp. address: | 25 Robert Street |
| Resident: | 1841 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wigan, Horace (1819-1885) |
| Brief: | Actor, most successful in detective parts, dramatist and theatre manager |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 206 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861-1881 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wightman, Sir William (1785-1863) |
| Brief: | Judge who presided over trials arising out of the Bristol riots |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 26 Euston Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1824-1825 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wightman, Sir William (1785-1863) |
| Brief: | Judge who presided over trials arising out of the Bristol riots |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 23 Woburn Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1829-1838 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wilcox, Desmond John (1931-2000) |
| Brief: | Television producer, documentary filmmaker, journalist and television executive |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 East Heath Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1996-2000 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wild, James William (1814-1892) |
| Brief: | Architect and orientalist, designer of the great water tower at Grimsby docks, decorative architect to the Great Exhibition of 1851, curator of the Sir John Soane's Museum |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1878-1892 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilde, Samuel De (1751-1832) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter and etcher best known for his theatrical subjects |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 130 Eversholt Street |
| Contemp. address: | 26 Upper Seymour Street |
| Resident: | 1786 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wilde, Thomas, first Baron Truro (1782-1855) |
| Brief: | Lawyer, judge and politician, served as Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and Lord Chancellor |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 69 Guilford Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1814-1844 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilde, William James [Jimmy] (1892-1969) |
| Brief: | Professional boxer whom some consider the greatest British fighter of all time. A flyweight, he was nicknamed "The Mighty Atom" |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | The Cottage, Whitestone Lane |
| Contemp. address: | Lonsdale, Whitestone Lane |
| Resident: | 1932-1934 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilhelmj, August Emil Daniel Ferdinand (1845-1908) |
| Brief: | Violinist, a child prodigy who became Professor of violin at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 54 Priory Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1908 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilkie, Sir David (1785-1841) |
| Brief: | Painter of genre, historical subjects and portraits, Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and Queen Victoria. |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 85 Hampstead Road |
| Contemp. address: | 10 Sol's Row |
| Resident: | 1807-1808 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wilkins, Sir Charles (1749-1836) |
| Brief: | Orientalist, translator, lexicographer and type designer who established a printing press for oriental languages. The first Englishman to master Sanskrit |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 39 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1798-1802 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilkinson, (James John) Garth (1812-1899) |
| Brief: | Homeopathic physician, social reformer, translator and editor of Swedenborg's works. A furious opponent of vaccination and vivisection. |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Acton Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1812 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Wilkinson, (James John) Garth (1812-1899) |
| Brief: | Homeopathic physician, social reformer, translator and editor of Swedenborg's works. A furious opponent of vaccination and vivisection. |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 162 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | 8 Seymour Place |
| Resident: | ~1820-1825 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wilkinson, (James John) Garth (1812-1899) |
| Brief: | Homeopathic physician, social reformer, translator and editor of Swedenborg's works. A furious opponent of vaccination and vivisection. |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 25 Church Row |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1847-1850 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilkinson, Elizabeth Mary (1909-2001) |
| Brief: | Professor of German at UCL |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Flat 33, Queen Court, Queen Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1965-2001 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilkinson, Elizabeth Mary (1909-2001) |
| Brief: | Professor of German at UCL |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 26 Brunswick Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1945-1964 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wilkinson, Ellen Cicely (1891-1947) |
| Brief: | Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Education and played a prominent role in the 1936 Jarrow March |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 36 Great James Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1929-1931 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilkinson, Ellen Cicely (1891-1947) |
| Brief: | Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Education and played a prominent role in the 1936 Jarrow March |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 30 John Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1926-1929 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilkinson, Ellen Cicely (1891-1947) |
| Brief: | Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Education and played a prominent role in the 1936 Jarrow March |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Guilford Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1932-1937 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wilkinson, Fanny Rollo (1855-1951) |
| Brief: | Landscape gardener who laid out 75 public gardens in London for the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Courtauld House, 1-4 Byng Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilkinson, Fanny Rollo (1855-1951) |
| Brief: | Landscape gardener who laid out 75 public gardens in London for the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 241 Shaftsbury Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1885-1896 |
| Notes: | EH blue plaque |
| Name: | Wilkinson, Fanny Rollo (1855-1951) |
| Brief: | Landscape gardener who laid out 75 public gardens in London for the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilkinson, Norman (1878-1971) |
| Brief: | Marine and poster artist and inventor of dazzle camouflage |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Endsleigh Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilkinson, Norman (1878-1971) |
| Brief: | Marine and poster artist and inventor of dazzle camouflage |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 62 Belsize Park Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1910-1924 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Willan, Robert (1757-1812) |
| Brief: | Physician and pioneer dermatologist |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Bloomsbury Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1801-1811 |
| Notes: | LCC blue plaque. Much altered |
| Name: | Willes, Sir John (1685-1761) |
| Brief: | Lawyer and politician, the longest-serving Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas since the C15, notorious for his gambling and womanising |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | ~36 Bloomsbury Square |
| Contemp. address: | 3 Bloomsbury Square |
| Resident: | 1740-1761 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Willett Sr., William (1837-1913) |
| Brief: | Builder, the Willetts, father and son, constructed over a thousand substantial middle-class homes, many in Belsize Park and South Hampstead |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Belsize Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | 8 Prince Consort Road |
| Resident: | 1871 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Willett Sr., William (1837-1913) |
| Brief: | Builder, the Willetts, father and son, constructed over a thousand substantial middle-class homes, many in Belsize Park and South Hampstead |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 29 Belsize Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1874-1877 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Willett, John William Mills (1917-2002) |
| Brief: | Translator and scholar remembered for translating the work of Bertolt Brecht |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Volta House, Windmill Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1952-1988 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williams, (George) Emlyn (1905-1987) |
| Brief: | Writer, dramatist and actor. Remembered especially for 'The Corn is Green' and his autobiography, 'George' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 60 Marchmont Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1930-1934 |
| Notes: | Marchmont Association plaque |
| Name: | Williams, Charles Walter Stansby (1886-1945) |
| Brief: | Poet, novelist, playwright, theologian, literary critic and member of the Inklings, an informal literary discussion group |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 28 Parkhill Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1931-1937 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williams, Charles Walter Stansby (1886-1945) |
| Brief: | Poet, novelist, playwright, theologian, literary critic and member of the Inklings, an informal literary discussion group |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 23 Antrim Mansions, Antrim Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1943-1945 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williams, Edward (1781-1855) |
| Brief: | Landscape painter whose six sons were also well-known landscape painters |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 86 Cromer Street |
| Contemp. address: | 100 Cromer Street |
| Resident: | 1841-1846 |
| Notes: | Demolished, family home of Percy [Williams], Sidney Richard (1821-1886) |
| Name: | Williams, Grace Mary (1906-1977) |
| Brief: | Composer, the first British woman to score a feature film, taught music at Camden School for Girls |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 30 Willow Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1943-1946 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williams, Isaac (1802-1865) |
| Brief: | Poet and theologian, a prominent member of the Oxford Movement |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Southampton Place |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Southampton Street |
| Resident: | 1802-1821 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williams, Kenneth Charles (1926-1988) |
| Brief: | Comic actor, remembered for his roles in Carry On films, radio programmes with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne, and as a panellist on Just a Minute |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Triton Square |
| Contemp. address: | 8 Marlborough House, Osnaburgh Street |
| Resident: | 1972-1988 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Williams, Kenneth Charles (1926-1988) |
| Brief: | Comic actor, remembered for his roles in Carry On films, radio programmes with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne, and as a panellist on Just a Minute |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 57 Marchmont Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1935-1956 |
| Notes: | Marchmont Association plaque |
| Name: | Williams, Kenneth Charles (1926-1988) |
| Brief: | Comic actor, remembered for his roles in Carry On films, radio programmes with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne, and as a panellist on Just a Minute |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 817 Endsleigh Court, Upper Woburn Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1956-1959 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williams, Kenneth Charles (1926-1988) |
| Brief: | Comic actor, remembered for his roles in Carry On films, radio programmes with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne, and as a panellist on Just a Minute |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Queen Alexandra Mansions, Judd Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1959-1972 (not continuous) |
| Notes: | Flats 66, 92 and 80 |
| Name: | Williams, Michael Leonard (1935-2001) |
| Brief: | Actor on stage and screen, widely remembered for the sitcom 'A Fine Romance' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Prospect Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1975-1995 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williams, Robert (~1787-1845) |
| Brief: | Physician and pharmacologist who introduced potassium iodide as a treatment for syphilis |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 39 Bedford Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1812-1845 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williams, Samuel (1788-1853) |
| Brief: | Wood engraver and miniature painter, several siblings and children were also engravers |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 98 Albert Street |
| Contemp. address: | 20 Gloucester Street |
| Resident: | 1851-1853 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williams, Samuel (1788-1853) |
| Brief: | Wood engraver and miniature painter, several siblings and children were also engravers |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Sandwich Street |
| Contemp. address: | 2 Hadlow Street |
| Resident: | 1831 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williams, Samuel (1788-1853) |
| Brief: | Wood engraver and miniature painter, several siblings and children were also engravers |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Mabledon Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1834 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Williams, Sir (Evan) Owen (1890-1969) |
| Brief: | Civil engineer and architect whose projects included the original Wembley Stadium and Spaghetti Junction |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Redington Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1925-1933 |
| Notes: | Memorial plaque |
| Name: | Williams, Sir George (1821-1905) |
| Brief: | Philanthropist, businessman and founder of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 30 Woburn Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1854-1878 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Williams, Sir George (1821-1905) |
| Brief: | Philanthropist, businessman and founder of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1879-1905 |
| Notes: | Demolished, memorial plaque |
| Name: | Williams, Sir William, first baronet (1634-1700) |
| Brief: | Lawyer and politician, Speaker for two Parliaments and Solicitor General. An ardent believer in the Popish Plot |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near Baldwin's Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | Baldwin's Court |
| Resident: | 1700 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain, demolished |
| Name: | Williams, Ursula Vaughan (1911-2007) |
| Brief: | Poet and biographer of her husband, Ralph Vaughan Williams. President of the English Folk Dance and Song Society |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 69 Gloucester Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1961-1982 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williams, Ursula Vaughan (1911-2007) |
| Brief: | Poet and biographer of her husband, Ralph Vaughan Williams. President of the English Folk Dance and Song Society |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 66 Gloucester Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1983-1997 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williams, William Oliver (1823-1901) |
| Brief: | Painter of genre scenes, usually of young women and signed William Oliver |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 47 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williams-Ellis, Sir (Bertram) Clough (1883-1978) |
| Brief: | Architect known chiefly as the creator of the Italianate village of Portmeirion |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Holly Bush Hill |
| Contemp. address: | Romney's House |
| Resident: | 1929-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williamson, Alexander William (1824-1904) |
| Brief: | Professor of Analytical Chemistry at UCL, twice president of the Chemical Society, President of the BAAS, the Williamson ether synthesis remains one of the most elegant reactions in organic chemistry. |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 28 Primrose Hill Road |
| Contemp. address: | 15 Primrose Hill Road |
| Resident: | 1881-1885 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Williamson, Alexander William (1824-1904) |
| Brief: | Professor of Analytical Chemistry at UCL, twice president of the Chemical Society, President of the BAAS, the Williamson ether synthesis remains one of the most elegant reactions in organic chemistry. |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 23 Fellows Road |
| Contemp. address: | 12 Fellows Road |
| Resident: | 1865-1880 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Williamson, Alexander William (1824-1904) |
| Brief: | Professor of Analytical Chemistry at UCL, twice president of the Chemical Society, President of the BAAS, the Williamson ether synthesis remains one of the most elegant reactions in organic chemistry. |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Prince Albert Road |
| Contemp. address: | 18 Albert Road |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williamson, Alexander William (1824-1904) |
| Brief: | Professor of Analytical Chemistry at UCL, twice president of the Chemical Society, President of the BAAS, the Williamson ether synthesis remains one of the most elegant reactions in organic chemistry. |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Provost Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1856-1865 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Williamson, George Charles (1858-1942) |
| Brief: | Art historian, antiquarian, and author of books on European art and artists (pseud. Rowley Cleeve) |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Burgh House, New End Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1906-1924 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Willing, Victor James Arthur (1928-1988) |
| Brief: | Artist whose most celebrated paintings are imaginative representations of empty rooms or deserted locations |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 87 Albert Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1962-1976 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Willing, Victor James Arthur (1928-1988) |
| Brief: | Artist whose most celebrated paintings are imaginative representations of empty rooms or deserted locations |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 The Pryors, East Heath Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1977-1988 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Willis, Henry (1821-1901) |
| Brief: | Organ builder (including Royal Albert Hall and St. Paul's Cathedral) |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Bridge Approach |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Bridge Road |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Willis, Henry (1821-1901) |
| Brief: | Organ builder (including Royal Albert Hall and St. Paul's Cathedral) |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Argyle Street |
| Contemp. address: | 18 Manchester Street |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Willis, Henry (1821-1901) |
| Brief: | Organ builder (including Royal Albert Hall and St. Paul's Cathedral) |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Rochester Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871-1891 |
| Notes: | GLC blue plaque |
| Name: | Willis, Henry (1821-1901) |
| Brief: | Organ builder (including Royal Albert Hall and St. Paul's Cathedral) |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Bartholomew Road |
| Contemp. address: | Argyle Villa |
| Resident: | 1901 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Willis, Henry (1821-1901) |
| Brief: | Organ builder (including Royal Albert Hall and St. Paul's Cathedral) |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Regent's Place |
| Contemp. address: | Fitzroy Row |
| Resident: | 1841 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain, demolished |
| Name: | Willis, Henry Brittan (bap. 1811-1884) |
| Brief: | Landscape painter and printmaker. The Art Journal wrote that he painted 'the best cow picture we have ever seen'" |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Lidlington Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1850-1860 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Willmore, James Tibbitts (1800-1863) |
| Brief: | Engraver who made plates for Turner's England and Wales series and his Rivers of France |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Oakshott Court |
| Contemp. address: | 23 The Polygon |
| Resident: | 1841-1863 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wills, William Henry (1810-1880) |
| Brief: | Journalist, playwright and newspaper editor, friend and business partner of Charles Dickens |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://www.ayotstpeter.com/william-henry-wills/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Phoenix Road |
| Contemp. address: | 56 Clarendon Square |
| Resident: | 1819 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wills, William Henry, 1st Baron Winterstoke (1830-1911) |
| Brief: | Tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist (W. D. and H. O. Wills & Sons) |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Frognal Rise, Lower Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1881 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wills, William John (1826-?) and Thomas (1835-?) |
| Brief: | Sculptors best known for their designs of drinking fountains, Coalbrookdale castings and the Cobden statue in Camden High Street |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Harrison Street |
| Contemp. address: | 13 Harrison Street |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wills, William John (1826-?) and Thomas (1835-?) |
| Brief: | Sculptors best known for their designs of drinking fountains, Coalbrookdale castings and the Cobden statue in Camden High Street |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 12 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1859-1870 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wills, William John (1826-?) and Thomas (1835-?) |
| Brief: | Sculptors best known for their designs of drinking fountains, Coalbrookdale castings and the Cobden statue in Camden High Street |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 172 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wills, William John (1826-?) and Thomas (1835-?) |
| Brief: | Sculptors best known for their designs of drinking fountains, Coalbrookdale castings and the Cobden statue in Camden High Street |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 168 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1881 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wills, William John (1826-?) and Thomas (1835-?) |
| Brief: | Sculptors best known for their designs of drinking fountains, Coalbrookdale castings and the Cobden statue in Camden High Street |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 128 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1884-1893 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Willyams, Cooper (1762-1816) |
| Brief: | Clergyman and topographical artist |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Bernard Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1816 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Wilmot, Sir John Eardley (1709-1792) |
| Brief: | Judge, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, refused offer of appointment as Lord Chancellor |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Great Ormond Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1755-1792 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Wilson 'Pasha', James S. (1831-1906) |
| Brief: | Chief Engineer of the Nile Steam Towing Company, 43 years in the service of the Egyptian government |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://worldhistory.us/historical-biographies/wilson-pasha-chief-engineer-to-the-egyptian-government.php |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Lymington Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1906 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilson [née Harries], Margaret (1797-1846) |
| Brief: | Poet, playwright, lyricist, writer and editor, pen name Mrs Cornwell Baron Wilson, she is considered one of the first female biographers |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Woburn Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1821-1846 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wilson [née Martin], Charlotte Mary (1854-1944) |
| Brief: | Fabian and anarchist who co-founded 'Freedom' newspaper and the political 'Hampstead Historic Club' |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Old Wyldes', Hampstead Way |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1884-1906 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilson, Alexander Galbraith [Sandy] (1924-2014) |
| Brief: | Composer and lyricist, best known for his musical 'The Boy Friend' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Squire's Mount |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1958-1959 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilson, Alexander Galbraith [Sandy] (1924-2014) |
| Brief: | Composer and lyricist, best known for his musical 'The Boy Friend' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20A Crossfield Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1950-1956 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilson, Alexander Galbraith [Sandy] (1924-2014) |
| Brief: | Composer and lyricist, best known for his musical 'The Boy Friend' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 34A Denning Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1935 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilson, Benjamin (1721-1788) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter, printmaker and natural philosopher. He received the Copley medal of the Royal Society for his investigations into electricity |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 56 Great Queen Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1750-1761 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wilson, Benjamin (1721-1788) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter, printmaker and natural philosopher. He received the Copley medal of the Royal Society for his investigations into electricity |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 56 Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1777-1788 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wilson, Francesca Mary (1888-1981) |
| Brief: | Teacher, refugee relief worker, public speaker and writer. One of the refugees she assisted was Nikolaus Pevsner |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5A Fellows Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1952-1981 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilson, Horace Hayman (1786-1860) |
| Brief: | Orientalist, Professor of Sanskrit at U. Oxford, compiled the 1st Sanskrit-English Dictionary |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 110 Guilford Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1832-1833 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilson, Richard (1713-1782) |
| Brief: | Landscape painter, founder member of the Royal Academy, acknowledged as an influence by Constable, John Crome and Turner |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | 4 Charlotte Street |
| Resident: | 1773-1779 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilson, Richard (1713-1782) |
| Brief: | Landscape painter, founder member of the Royal Academy, acknowledged as an influence by Constable, John Crome and Turner |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 69 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | 70 Charlotte Street |
| Resident: | 1773 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilson, Sir Angus Frank Johnstone (1913-1991) |
| Brief: | Novelist and biographer, knighted for services to literature, Professor of English Literature at UEA |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Regent's Park Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1962-1969 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilson, Sir Colin Alexander St John [Sandy] (1922-2007) |
| Brief: | Architect, The British Library was his major work, now grade I listed, also known for the new wing of Pallant House Gallery in Chichester |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Oppidans Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1948-1955 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilson, Sir Colin Alexander St John [Sandy] (1922-2007) |
| Brief: | Architect, The British Library was his major work, now grade I listed, also known for the new wing of Pallant House Gallery in Chichester |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 36 Oppidans Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1956 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wilson, Sir Colin Alexander St John [Sandy] (1922-2007) |
| Brief: | Architect, The British Library was his major work, now grade I listed, also known for the new wing of Pallant House Gallery in Chichester |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 The Priory, Upper Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1971-1976 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wilson, Sir Graham Selby (1895-1987) |
| Brief: | Medical bacteriologist, Professor of Bacteriology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, director of the Public Health Laboratory Service |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 65 Hillway |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1946-1976 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilson, Sir Graham Selby (1895-1987) |
| Brief: | Medical bacteriologist, Professor of Bacteriology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, director of the Public Health Laboratory Service |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 110 Bedford Court Mansions |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1935-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wilson, Sir Robert Thomas (1777-1849) |
| Brief: | Army general, politician (MP for Southwark), writer on military topics and Governor of Gibraltar |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 56 Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1777-1788 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wilson, William Carus (1791-1859) |
| Brief: | Clergyman, founder and editor of 'The Children's Friend' and founder of charity schools, one of which was the model for Lowood School in 'Jane Eyre' |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Montague Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1859 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wimbush, Henry Bowser (1858-1943) |
| Brief: | Landscape painter, book illustrator and postcard artist for Raphael Tuck & Sons |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 32 Steele's Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1903-1906 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Winehouse, Amy (1983-2011) |
| Brief: | Songwriter and expressive singer of soul, rhythm and blues and jazz |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 30 Camden Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 2010-2011 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Winehouse, Amy (1983-2011) |
| Brief: | Songwriter and expressive singer of soul, rhythm and blues and jazz |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 25 Prowse Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 2008 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Winehouse, Amy (1983-2011) |
| Brief: | Songwriter and expressive singer of soul, rhythm and blues and jazz |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 28 Jeffrey's Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 2003-2007 |
| Notes: | Entered from Jeffrey's Place |
| Name: | Wingfield, Lewis Strange (1842-1891) |
| Brief: | Actor, writer, artist and eccentric |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 47 Mecklenburgh Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1880-1885 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wingfield, Lewis Strange (1842-1891) |
| Brief: | Actor, writer, artist and eccentric |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 Montague Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1890 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wingfield, Lewis Strange (1842-1891) |
| Brief: | Actor, writer, artist and eccentric |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Mecklenburgh Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1879-1880 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Winslow, Forbes Benignus (1810-1874) |
| Brief: | Physician and specialist in insanity who opened two private lunatic asylums and founded the Quarterly Journal of Psychological Medicine |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 45 Guilford Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1843-1844, 1846-1848 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Winstanley, Denys Arthur (1877-1947) |
| Brief: | Historian, author of a four-volume history of Cambridge University, Vice-Master of Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 31 Woburn Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1877 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Winter, John (1930-2012) |
| Brief: | Architect who specialised in private houses built on a modest scale |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Regal Lane |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1961-1969 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Winter, John (1930-2012) |
| Brief: | Architect who specialised in private houses built on a modest scale |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 81 Swain's Lane |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1969-2012 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Winton [born Wertheim], Sir Nicholas George (Nicky) (1909-2015) |
| Brief: | Stockbroker and finance director who rescued an estimated 669 children from Nazi persecution |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Stonecroft, 5 Cleve Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1909-1925 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Winton [born Wertheim], Sir Nicholas George (Nicky) (1909-2015) |
| Brief: | Stockbroker and finance director who rescued an estimated 669 children from Nazi persecution |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Willow Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wintour, Charles Vere (1917-1999) |
| Brief: | Newspaper editor |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9A Oak Hill Park |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1946-1951 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937) |
| Brief: | Bibliophile who collected the Ashley Library, now housed by the British Library, part of which was found to be forged or stolen |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 23 Downside Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937) |
| Brief: | Bibliophile who collected the Ashley Library, now housed by the British Library, part of which was found to be forged or stolen |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 25 Heath Drive |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911-1937 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wise, Thomas James (1859-1937) |
| Brief: | Bibliophile who collected the Ashley Library, now housed by the British Library, part of which was found to be forged or stolen |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Priory Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | 15 St George's Road |
| Resident: | 1896-1901 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wishart, (John) Michael Garman (1928-1996) |
| Brief: | Figurative painter with a hedonistic lifestyle |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 39 Brunswick Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1928-1930 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Witherington, William Frederick (1785-1865) |
| Brief: | Landscape painter who exhibited 138 pictures at the Royal Academy |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Mornington Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | 36 Mornington Crescent |
| Resident: | 1848-1865 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Witherington, William Frederick (1785-1865) |
| Brief: | Landscape painter who exhibited 138 pictures at the Royal Academy |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Leigh Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1834-1847 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Witherington, William Frederick (1785-1865) |
| Brief: | Landscape painter who exhibited 138 pictures at the Royal Academy |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 29 Sandwich Street |
| Contemp. address: | 29 Hadlow Street |
| Resident: | 1821-1832 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Withers, Robert Jewell (1824-1894) |
| Brief: | Ecclesiastical architect, worked on the restoration of St Mary-le-Strand |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 51 Doughty Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1859-1873 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Withers, Robert Jewell (1824-1894) |
| Brief: | Ecclesiastical architect, worked on the restoration of St Mary-le-Strand |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 23 Harrington Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wivell, Abraham (1786-1849) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter, engraver, writer and pioneer of fire protection, credited with inventing the first effective fire escape system |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://britishmapengravers.net/entries/t-entries/abraham-wivell/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 62 Albany Street |
| Contemp. address: | 31 Albany Street |
| Resident: | 1835 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wivell, Abraham (1786-1849) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter, engraver, writer and pioneer of fire protection, credited with inventing the first effective fire escape system |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://britishmapengravers.net/entries/t-entries/abraham-wivell/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Varndell Street |
| Contemp. address: | 5 Edward Street |
| Resident: | 1830-1833 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wivell, Abraham (1786-1849) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter, engraver, writer and pioneer of fire protection, credited with inventing the first effective fire escape system |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://britishmapengravers.net/entries/t-entries/abraham-wivell/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 41 Cardington Street |
| Contemp. address: | 20 Cardington Street |
| Resident: | 1840-1841 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wivell, Abraham (1786-1849) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter, engraver, writer and pioneer of fire protection, credited with inventing the first effective fire escape system |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://britishmapengravers.net/entries/t-entries/abraham-wivell/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 25 Randolph Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1837 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wolcot, John [pseud. Peter Pindar] (bap. 1738-1819) |
| Brief: | Wrote immensely popular satires under the pseudonym of Peter Pindar (e.g. The Lousiad: an Heroi-Comical Poem) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 34 Howland Street |
| Contemp. address: | 39 Howland Street |
| Resident: | 1810 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wolcot, John [pseud. Peter Pindar] (bap. 1738-1819) |
| Brief: | Wrote immensely popular satires under the pseudonym of Peter Pindar (e.g. The Lousiad: an Heroi-Comical Poem) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Churchway |
| Contemp. address: | Montgomery's Cottage, Latham Place |
| Resident: | ~1810-1819 |
| Notes: | Demolished, location uncertain |
| Name: | Wolf, Joseph [formerly Matthias] (1820-1899) |
| Brief: | Artist who specialized in natural history illustration. Landseer thought him "...without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived" |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://bohnstedt-hannon.com/joseph-wolf |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Primrose Hill Studios, Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1878-1899 |
| Notes: | Memorial plaque |
| Name: | Wolf, Joseph [formerly Matthias] (1820-1899) |
| Brief: | Artist who specialized in natural history illustration. Landseer thought him "...without exception, the best all-round animal artist who ever lived" |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://bohnstedt-hannon.com/joseph-wolf |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 33 Howland Street |
| Contemp. address: | 17 Howland Street |
| Resident: | 1848-1856 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wolf, Lucien (1857-1930) |
| Brief: | Journalist and lobbyist, editor of 'Jewish World', critic of Zionism, co-founder of the Jewish Historical Society of England and the League of British Jews. |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Brunswick Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1897-1913 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wolf, Lucien (1857-1930) |
| Brief: | Journalist and lobbyist, editor of 'Jewish World', critic of Zionism, co-founder of the Jewish Historical Society of England and the League of British Jews. |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Verulam Buildings |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1918-1930 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wolfit [formerly Woolfitt], Sir Donald (1902-1968) |
| Brief: | Actor-manager, known especially for his touring wartime productions of Shakespeare |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Wildwood Grove |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1949-1956 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wolfit [formerly Woolfitt], Sir Donald (1902-1968) |
| Brief: | Actor-manager, known especially for his touring wartime productions of Shakespeare |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Hampstead Hill Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1947-1948 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wollstonecraft [married name Godwin], Mary (1759-1797) |
| Brief: | Author and advocate of women's rights, arguably become the most discussed, admired, criticized, and mythologized feminist in history |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 58 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | 26 Charlotte Street |
| Resident: | 1795 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wollstonecraft [married name Godwin], Mary (1759-1797) |
| Brief: | Author and advocate of women's rights, arguably become the most discussed, admired, criticized, and mythologized feminist in history |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Store Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1791-1792 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Wollstonecraft [married name Godwin], Mary (1759-1797) |
| Brief: | Author and advocate of women's rights, arguably become the most discussed, admired, criticized, and mythologized feminist in history |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Oakshott Court |
| Contemp. address: | 29 The Polygon |
| Resident: | 1797 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wollstonecraft [married name Godwin], Mary (1759-1797) |
| Brief: | Author and advocate of women's rights, arguably become the most discussed, admired, criticized, and mythologized feminist in history |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 94 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Judd Place West |
| Resident: | 1796 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wolmark, Alfred Aaron (1877-1961) |
| Brief: | Post Impressionist painter and decorative artist, a pioneer of the New Movement in Art |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 37 Broadhurst Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1918-1934 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wolmark, Alfred Aaron (1877-1961) |
| Brief: | Post Impressionist painter and decorative artist, a pioneer of the New Movement in Art |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Elmwood, North End Way |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1935-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wolmark, Alfred Aaron (1877-1961) |
| Brief: | Post Impressionist painter and decorative artist, a pioneer of the New Movement in Art |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Belsize Studios, Glenilla Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1914 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wolpe, Katharina Petra (1931-2013) |
| Brief: | Concert pianist and teacher who recorded the complete works of Arnold Schoenberg |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Wellside, Well Walk |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1971-2013 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wolpe, Katharina Petra (1931-2013) |
| Brief: | Concert pianist and teacher who recorded the complete works of Arnold Schoenberg |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 87 Greencroft Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1961-1968 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wolstenholme, (Charles) Dean, the younger (1798-1883) |
| Brief: | Sporting painter and engraver who illustrated J. M. Eaton's Treatise on the Art of Breeding and Managing Tame, Domesticated and Fancy Pigeons |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s) see Wolstenholme, Dean, the elder (1757-1837) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 33 Highgate High Street |
| Contemp. address: | 3 High Street |
| Resident: | 1881-1883 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wolstenholme, (Charles) Dean, the younger (1798-1883) |
| Brief: | Sporting painter and engraver who illustrated J. M. Eaton's Treatise on the Art of Breeding and Managing Tame, Domesticated and Fancy Pigeons |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s) see Wolstenholme, Dean, the elder (1757-1837) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 360 Gray's Inn Road |
| Contemp. address: | 22 Chad's Row |
| Resident: | 1820-1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wolstenholme, Dean, the elder (1757-1837) |
| Brief: | Animal painter, especially hunting and shooting |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near Harpur Street |
| Contemp. address: | 4 East Street |
| Resident: | 1805-1810 |
| Notes: | Demolished, family home of Wolstenholme, (Charles) Dean, the younger (1798-1883) |
| Name: | Wolton [née Cheesman], Georgie (1934-2021) |
| Brief: | Architect and garden designer, an original member of Team 4 |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 3 Gloucester Gate |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1963-1965 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wolton [née Cheesman], Georgie (1934-2021) |
| Brief: | Architect and garden designer, an original member of Team 4 |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 34 Belsize Lane |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1977-1983 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wood, (Clarence) Lawson (1878-1957) |
| Brief: | Cartoonist and illustrator who lived in a C15 manor house that he moved brick by brick from Sussex to the Kent border |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 66 Woodsome Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1878-1881 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wood, Catherine Jane (1841-1930) |
| Brief: | Paediatric nurse and promoter of nurse education, registration, and welfare, the first trained head of nursing at Great Ormond Street Hospital |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Doughty Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1841-1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wood, Catherine Jane (1841-1930) |
| Brief: | Paediatric nurse and promoter of nurse education, registration, and welfare, the first trained head of nursing at Great Ormond Street Hospital |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street |
| Contemp. address: | 48-49 Great Ormond Street |
| Resident: | 1881 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wood, Catherine Jane (1841-1930) |
| Brief: | Paediatric nurse and promoter of nurse education, registration, and welfare, the first trained head of nursing at Great Ormond Street Hospital |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 27 Percy Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1891 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wood, Catherine Jane (1841-1930) |
| Brief: | Paediatric nurse and promoter of nurse education, registration, and welfare, the first trained head of nursing at Great Ormond Street Hospital |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9-11 Torrington Place |
| Contemp. address: | 25-26 Francis Street |
| Resident: | 1901 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wood, Haydn (1882-1959) |
| Brief: | Composer and concert violinist, best known for his song 'Roses of Picardy' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 25 Parliament Hill Mansions, Lissenden Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911-1916 |
| Notes: | Lissenden Gardens Tenants Assoc. plaque |
| Name: | Wood, John (1801-1870) |
| Brief: | History and portrait painter |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 81 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | 65 Upper Charlotte Street |
| Resident: | 1828-1870 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wood, John George (1827-1889) |
| Brief: | Natural historian and microscopist who wrote more than seventy books (e.g. Common Objects of the Microscope) |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 30 Howland Street |
| Contemp. address: | 40 Howland Street |
| Resident: | 1827 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wood, Mary Hay (1868-1934) |
| Brief: | Educationist and college head, founder of Hillcroft College for Working Women in Surbiton |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 17 Oval Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1934 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wood, Sir George (1743-1824) |
| Brief: | Judge and politician, a stern upholder of authority and the established order |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1817-1824 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wood, Sir Henry Joseph (1869-1944) |
| Brief: | Conductor, best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Elsworthy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1905-1937 |
| Notes: | GLC blue plaque |
| Name: | Wood, Sir Henry Joseph (1869-1944) |
| Brief: | Conductor, best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Primrose Hill Studios, Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1910-1914 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wood, Thomas McKinnon (1855-1927) |
| Brief: | Liberal party politician who served as Secretary for Scotland, Chancellor and chairman of the LCC |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | West Hill Court, Millfield Lane |
| Contemp. address: | Brookfield House |
| Resident: | 1901 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wood, Victoria (1953-2016) |
| Brief: | Comedian, writer, pianist and actress noted for her skills in observational comedy and in satirising aspects of social class |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 45 Highgate West Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 2001-2016 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Woodhouse, James (1735-1820) |
| Brief: | Poet and bookseller known as the "shoe-maker poet" |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Euston Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1820 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Woodman, Richard (1784-1859) |
| Brief: | Engraver and portrait painter |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Tottenham Court Road |
| Contemp. address: | 105 Terrace, Tottenham Court Road |
| Resident: | 1818-1820 |
| Notes: | Demolished, location uncertain |
| Name: | Woodman, Richard (1784-1859) |
| Brief: | Engraver and portrait painter |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 10 Royal College Street |
| Contemp. address: | 5 Great College Street |
| Resident: | 1841-1848 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Woodman, Richard (1784-1859) |
| Brief: | Engraver and portrait painter |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 53-54 Charrington Street |
| Contemp. address: | 68 Charrington Street |
| Resident: | 1849-1851 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Woodruff, Maurice (1916-1973) |
| Brief: | Clairvoyant and astrologer who featured in newspapers and on television |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Eton Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1949-1962 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Woods, Henry (1846-1921) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator, one of the leading Neo-Venetian school artists |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 53 Hunter Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Woods, Henry (1846-1921) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator, one of the leading Neo-Venetian school artists |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 King Henry's Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1872-1875 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Woodville, Richard Caton (1856-1927) |
| Brief: | One of the most prolific and effective painters of battle scenes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Park Village East |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1881 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Woodville, Richard Caton (1856-1927) |
| Brief: | One of the most prolific and effective painters of battle scenes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 189 Stanhope Street |
| Contemp. address: | 57 Stanhope Street |
| Resident: | 1856 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Woodville, William (1752-1805) |
| Brief: | Physician and botanist, pioneer of vaccination, physician to the smallpox hospital at St Pancras, compiled a 4 volume book on medical botany with 300 illustrations |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Ely Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1800-1805 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Woodward, Samuel Pickworth (1821-1865) |
| Brief: | Naturalist and palaeontologist, author of 'A Manual of the Mollusca', opponent of the theory of evolution |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Prince of Wales Road |
| Contemp. address: | 6 Grafton Place |
| Resident: | 1861-1865 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Woodyatt, Helen Charlotte (1924-2008) |
| Brief: | Author of over 30 illustrated children's books |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1A Ivor Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1979-2004 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Woolf, Adeline Virginia (1882-1941) |
| Brief: | Writer and publisher, regarded as one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors (Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 29 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1907-1911 |
| Notes: | GLC blue plaque |
| Name: | Woolf, Adeline Virginia (1882-1941) |
| Brief: | Writer and publisher, regarded as one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors (Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 52 Tavistock Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1924-1939 |
| Notes: | Demolished, Virginia Woolf society of Great Britain plaque |
| Name: | Woolf, Adeline Virginia (1882-1941) |
| Brief: | Writer and publisher, regarded as one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors (Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 37 Mecklenburgh Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939-1940 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Woolf, Adeline Virginia (1882-1941) |
| Brief: | Writer and publisher, regarded as one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors (Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 46 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1904-1907 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Woolf, Adeline Virginia (1882-1941) |
| Brief: | Writer and publisher, regarded as one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors (Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 38 Brunswick Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911-1912 |
| Notes: | Marchmont Association plaque, demolished |
| Name: | Woolf, Charles Moss (1879-1942) |
| Brief: | Film producer and distributor, formed W and F Film Service, General Film Distributors, and assisted the formation of Gainsborough |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 54 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1879-1901 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Woolf, Charles Moss (1879-1942) |
| Brief: | Film producer and distributor, formed W and F Film Service, General Film Distributors, and assisted the formation of Gainsborough |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Bracknell Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1913 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Woolf, Leonard Sidney (1880-1969) |
| Brief: | Political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant who wrote six volumes of autobiography |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 52 Tavistock Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1924-1939 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Woolf, Leonard Sidney (1880-1969) |
| Brief: | Political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant who wrote six volumes of autobiography |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 37 Mecklenburgh Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939-1940 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Woolf, Leonard Sidney (1880-1969) |
| Brief: | Political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant who wrote six volumes of autobiography |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 38 Brunswick Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911-1912 |
| Notes: | Marchmont Association plaque, demolished |
| Name: | Woollett, William (1735-1785) |
| Brief: | Engraver of masterly battle-pieces, appointed engraver-in-ordinary to George III |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Chitty Street |
| Contemp. address: | 1 North Street |
| Resident: | 1782-1785 |
| Notes: | Demolished. |
| Name: | Woolmer, Alfred Joseph (1805-1892) |
| Brief: | Prolific painter of literary and historical genre subjects |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 49 Chester Road |
| Contemp. address: | 9 Chester Road |
| Resident: | 1868-1875 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Woolmer, Alfred Joseph (1805-1892) |
| Brief: | Prolific painter of literary and historical genre subjects |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 34 Dartmouth Park Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | The Limes, Dartmouth Park Avenue |
| Resident: | 1875-1892 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892) |
| Brief: | Sculptor and poet, a founder-member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, sought after for portrait busts and public statues |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 69 Stanhope Street |
| Contemp. address: | 15 Mary Street |
| Resident: | 1838-1854 (not continuous) |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892) |
| Brief: | Sculptor and poet, a founder-member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, sought after for portrait busts and public statues |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Mackworth Street |
| Contemp. address: | 27 Rutland Street |
| Resident: | 1855-1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892) |
| Brief: | Sculptor and poet, a founder-member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, sought after for portrait busts and public statues |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 30 Osnaburgh Street |
| Contemp. address: | 13 Osnaburgh Street |
| Resident: | 1841 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) |
| Brief: | Romantic poet who became famous in his lifetime, Poet Laureate, strongly associated with the Lake District |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | ~34 Chalton Street |
| Contemp. address: | 15 Chalton Street |
| Resident: | 1795 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Worgan, John (1724-1790) |
| Brief: | Organist and composer who played at Vauxhall Gardens |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 44 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | 22 Gower Street |
| Resident: | 1790 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Worlidge [Worledge], Thomas (1700-1766) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter and etcher whose last work was a series of 182 etchings of gems from the antique |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 61 Great Queen Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1765-1767 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wormald, Francis (1904-1972) |
| Brief: | Palaeographer and art historian, director of the Institute of Historical Research, inveterate committee member and president of the Society of Antiquaries |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 Mecklenburgh Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1935-1941 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wormald, Francis (1904-1972) |
| Brief: | Palaeographer and art historian, director of the Institute of Historical Research, inveterate committee member and president of the Society of Antiquaries |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 45 Mecklenburgh Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1930-1935 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wornum, Ralph Nicholson (1812-1877) |
| Brief: | Artist, art historian and administrator. Keeper and Secretary of the National Gallery |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 156 Hampstead Road |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Bedford Place |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wornum, Ralph Nicholson (1812-1877) |
| Brief: | Artist, art historian and administrator. Keeper and Secretary of the National Gallery |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Belsize Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1873-1877 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wornum, Robert Nicholson (1780-1852) |
| Brief: | Inventor of the universally used upright action for the piano |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Camden Street |
| Contemp. address: | 2 Camden Street |
| Resident: | 1841-1852 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Worth, Adam [alias Henry J. Raymond] (1844-1902) |
| Brief: | Criminal and art thief, stole stole Gainsborough's portrait of Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire from Thomas Agnew & Sons, possibly the inspiration for Professor Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes stories |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | CHR 33 19-24 (2009) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Park Village East, |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1902 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wright, Anthony Edgar Gartside [pseud. Antony Grey] (1927-2010) |
| Brief: | Gay rights campaigner and Director of the Albany Trust |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 3, 121 Broadhurst Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1961-1963 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wright, John (1770-1844) |
| Brief: | Bookseller, author, editor and publisher associated with William Cobbett. Conducted crusade against the Grand Junction Water Works Company for supplying contaminated water to the city of Westminster |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 21 Osnaburgh Street |
| Contemp. address: | 26 Osnaburgh Street |
| Resident: | 1844 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wyatt, Benjamin Dean (1775-1855) |
| Brief: | Architect who designed Drury Lane Theatre, additions to Apsley House, Duke of York Column and Lancaster House, Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey. |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 43 Albany Street |
| Contemp. address: | 153 Albany Street |
| Resident: | 1834-1840 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wyatt, Benjamin Dean (1775-1855) |
| Brief: | Architect who designed Drury Lane Theatre, additions to Apsley House, Duke of York Column and Lancaster House, Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey. |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 17 Delancey Street |
| Contemp. address: | 36 Stanhope Street, Park Place |
| Resident: | 1855 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wyatt, Benjamin Dean (1775-1855) |
| Brief: | Architect who designed Drury Lane Theatre, additions to Apsley House, Duke of York Column and Lancaster House, Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey. |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 30 Royal College Street |
| Contemp. address: | 15 Great College Street |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wyatt, Sir Matthew Digby (1820-1877) |
| Brief: | Architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/architecture/wyattmd/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 54 Guilford Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1852-1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wyatt, Sir Matthew Digby (1820-1877) |
| Brief: | Architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/architecture/wyattmd/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Tavistock Place |
| Contemp. address: | 37 Tavistock Place |
| Resident: | 1861-1877 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Wyatt, Sir Matthew Digby (1820-1877) |
| Brief: | Architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://victorianweb.org/art/architecture/wyattmd/index.html |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 75 Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1841 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wyatt, Thomas Henry (1807-1880) |
| Brief: | Architect who became President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, works include Holy Trinity, Haverstock Hill |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 77 Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1838-1880 |
| Notes: | GLC blue plaque |
| Name: | Wyatt, Woodrow Lyle (1918-1997) |
| Brief: | Politician, author, journalist and broadcaster. Chairman of The Tote. |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Park Village West |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1958-1966 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wyld, James, the younger (1812-1887) |
| Brief: | Geographer to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, cartographer, exhibited a 40 foot diameter gas-lit globe in Leicester Square to coincide with the 1851 exhibition |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Park Village West |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1839-1856 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wylde, Henry (1822-1890) |
| Brief: | Conductor, composer, teacher and music critic. Founded and was principal of the London Academy of Music |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 129 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | 32 Upper Gower Street |
| Resident: | 1844-1846 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wyllie, William Lionel (1851-1931) |
| Brief: | Painter of maritime themes in both oils and watercolours, described as "the most distinguished marine artist of his day." |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family homes, see Wyllie, William Morison (1820-1895) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 102 Fellows Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1931 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wyllie, William Morison (1820-1895) |
| Brief: | Painter known for his coastal and maritime subjects |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 136 Albany Street |
| Contemp. address: | 67 Albany Street |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished, family home of Wyllie, William Lionel (1851-1931) |
| Name: | Wyllie, William Morison (1820-1895) |
| Brief: | Painter known for his coastal and maritime subjects |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 36 Gloucester Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1853-1878 |
| Notes: | Family home of Wyllie, William Lionel (1851-1931) |
| Name: | Wyndham [born Culverwell], Sir Charles (1837-1919) |
| Brief: | Actor and theatre manager who built both Wyndham's Theatre and the Noël Coward Theatre |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Heath Villas, Vale of Health |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1869-1870 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wynyard, Diana [real name Dorothy Isobel Cox] (1906-1964) |
| Brief: | Actress on stage and screen, best remembered as the heroine of 'Gaslight' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 104 Hillfield Court, Belsize Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1964 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wynyard, Diana [real name Dorothy Isobel Cox] (1906-1964) |
| Brief: | Actress on stage and screen, best remembered as the heroine of 'Gaslight' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Albert Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1958-1964 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Wyon, Allan (1843-1907) |
| Brief: | Generations of the Wyon family were die-engravers and medallists. Allan completed and brought to publication his brother Alfred's 'The Great Seals of England' |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s) see Wyon, Benjamin (1802-1858) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 33 Parkhill Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901-1907 |
| Notes: | Family home of Wyon, Olive (1881-1966) |
| Name: | Wyon, Allan (1843-1907) |
| Brief: | Generations of the Wyon family were die-engravers and medallists. Allan completed and brought to publication his brother Alfred's 'The Great Seals of England' |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s) see Wyon, Benjamin (1802-1858) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 Harley Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1891 |
| Notes: | Family home of Wyon, Olive (1881-1966) |
| Name: | Wyon, Allan (1843-1907) |
| Brief: | Generations of the Wyon family were die-engravers and medallists. Allan completed and brought to publication his brother Alfred's 'The Great Seals of England' |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s) see Wyon, Benjamin (1802-1858) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 Broadhurst Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1885 |
| Notes: | Demolished, family home of Wyon, Olive (1881-1966) |
| Name: | Wyon, Allan (1843-1907) |
| Brief: | Generations of the Wyon family were die-engravers and medallists. Allan completed and brought to publication his brother Alfred's 'The Great Seals of England' |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s) see Wyon, Benjamin (1802-1858) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 53 Maitland Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1881-1882 |
| Notes: | Demolished, family home of Wyon, Olive (1881-1966) |
| Name: | Wyon, Benjamin (1802-1858) |
| Brief: | Generations of the Wyon family were die-engravers and medallists. Benjamin was chief engraver of seals and took over the family firm. His seals include the great seal of William IV and medals to commemorate the opening of London Bridge and the coal exchange |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 29 Buckland Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | 14 Buckland Crescent |
| Resident: | 1858 |
| Notes: | Family home of Wyon, Allan (1843-1907) |
| Name: | Wyon, Benjamin (1802-1858) |
| Brief: | Generations of the Wyon family were die-engravers and medallists. Benjamin was chief engraver of seals and took over the family firm. His seals include the great seal of William IV and medals to commemorate the opening of London Bridge and the coal exchange |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 St Mark's Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1853-1857 |
| Notes: | Family home of Wyon, Allan (1843-1907) |
| Name: | Wyon, Olive (1881-1966) |
| Brief: | Author, translator, feminist and theologian |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s) see Wyon, Allan (1843-1907) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 33 Cantelowes Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1929-1939 |
| Notes: | |
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