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Unveiling the Lee Miller and Sir Roland Penrose Blue PlaqueUnveiling the Lee Miller and Sir Roland Penrose Blue Plaque.Blue plaques, erected in London since 1867, are among the most familiar features of the capital’s streetscape. They adorn the façades of buildings in areas as different as Primrose Hill, Soho and Wimbledon; some of these buildings are grand, others look very ordinary, but all are connected by the fact that a remarkable person lived or worked there at some point in history.
 
Blue plaques celebrate great figures of the past and the buildings that they inhabited. They open a window into another time by showing us where the great and the good have penned their masterpieces, developed new technologies, lived or died. Actors, authors, politicians, painters, scientists, sportsmen, campaigners and reformers – people from different countries, cultures and backgrounds – have all been commemorated in this way.
 
The London blue plaques scheme has been run by English Heritage since 1986, and continues to grow at a rate of around 10-15 plaques each year. In their full range, totalling over 800, the capital’s plaques build up a fascinating picture of the varied activities of different ages and the achievements of London’s myriad residents.
 
A pilot extension of the blue plaques scheme on a national basis took place in 1998-2005; in these years, plaques were erected in Liverpool & Merseyside, Birmingham, Portsmouth and Southampton.

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PAGE, Sir Frederick Handley (1885-1962),
Aircraft Designer and Manufacturer, lived here in Flat 3.
18 Grosvenor Square, W1
Westminster 1999

PALGRAVE, Francis Turner (1824-1897),
Compiler of 'The Golden Treasury', lived here 1862-1875.
5 York Gate, Regent's Park, NW1
Westminster 1976

PALMER, Samuel (1805-1881),
Artist, lived here 1851-1861.
6 Douro Place, W8
Kensington and Chelsea 1972

PALMERSTON, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount (1784-1865)
Lord, Palmerston, 1784-1865,
Statesman, lived here
4 Carlton Gardens, SW1
Westminster 1907
Note: Tablet beneath plaque reads: Tablet fixed 1907, Premises rebuilt 1933, Tablet refixed 1936

PALMERSTON, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount (1784-1865),
Lord, Palmerston, (1784-1865),
Prime Minister, Born here
20 Queen Anne's Gate, SW1
Westminster 1925

PALMERSTON, Lord (1784-1865).
In this house formerly a Royal residence lived Lord Parlmerston, Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary.
Naval and Military Club, 94 Piccadilly, W1
Westminster 1961

PANKHURST, Emmeline (1858-1928) and
PANKHURST, Dame Christabel (1880-1958),
Campaigners for Women's Suffrage, lived here.
50 Clarendon Road, Holland Park, W11
Kensington and Chelsea 2006

PANKHURST, Sylvia (1882-1960),
Campaigner for Women's Rights, lived here.
120 Cheyne Walk, SW10
Kensington and Chelsea 1985

PARRY, Hubert (1848-1918),
Musician, lived here.
17 Kensington Square, W8
Kensington and Chelsea 1949

PASSMORE EDWARDS
See EDWARDS, John Passmore

PATEL, Sardar Vallabhbhai Javerbhai (1875-1950),
Indian Statesman, lived here.
23 Aldridge Road Villas, W11
Westminster 1986

PATER, Walter (1839-1894)
Aesthete and Writer, lived and worked here 1885-1893
12 Earls Terrace, W8
Kensington and Chelsea 2004

PATMORE, Coventry (1823-1896),
Poet and Essayist, lived here 1863-1864.
14 Percy Street, W1
Camden 1960

PEABODY, George (1795-1869),
Philanthropist, died here.
80 Eaton Square, SW1
Westminster 1976

PEAKE, Mervyn (1911-1968),
Author and Artist, lived here 1960-1968.
1 Drayton Gardens, SW10
Kensington and Chelsea 1996

PEARSON, John Loughborough (1817-1897),
and later Sir Edwin Landseer LUTYENS (1869-1944),
Architects, lived and died here.
13 Mansfield Street, W1
Westminster 1962

PEARSON, Karl (1857-1936),
Pioneer Statistician, lived here.
7 Well Road, Hampstead, NW3
Camden 1983

PEEL, Sir Robert (1750-1830),
Manufacturer and Reformer, and his son, Sir Robert PEEL (1788-1850), Prime Minister, Founder of the Metropolitan Police, lived here.
16 Upper Grosvenor Street, W1
Westminster 1988

PELHAM, Henry (c.1695-1754),
Prime Minister, lived here.
22 Arlington Street, SW1 (Plaque on rear of building overlooking Queen's Walk, Green Park)
Westminster 1995

PENROSE, Sir Roland (1900-1984)
See MILLER, Lee

PEPYS, Samuel (1633-1703),
Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty, lived here 1679-1688.
12 Buckingham Street, WC2
Westminster 1947

PEPYS, Samuel.
In a house formerly standing on this site lived Samuel PEPYS (1633-1703), Diarist and ROBERT HARLEY, Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), Statesman; and in this house lived William ETTY (1787-1849); Painter, and Clarkson STANFIELD (1793-1867), Painter.
14 Buckingham Street, WC2
Westminster 1908

PERCEVAL, Spencer (1762-1812),
Prime Minister, lived here.
59-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2
Camden 1914

PETRIE, Sir Flinders (1853-1942),
Egyptologist, lived here.
5 Cannon Place, NW3
Camden 1954

PETTY, William, Earl of Shelburne, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805)
Prime Minister, Supporter of American Independence, lived here
The Lansdowne Club, 9 Fitzmaurice Place, Berkeley Square, W1
Westminster 2003

PHELPS, Samuel (1804-1878),
Tragedian, lived here.
8 Canonbury Square, N1
Islington 1911

PHILPOT, Glyn
See RICKETTS, Charles

PICK, Frank (1878-1941),
Pioneer of Good Design for London Transport, lived here.
15 Wildwood Road, NW11
Barnet 1981

PINERO, Sir Arthur (1855-1934),
Playwright, lived here 1909-1934.
115a Harley Street, W1
Westminster 1970

PISSARRO, Lucien (1863-1944),
Painter, Printer, Wood Engraver, lived here.
27 Stamford Brook Road, Chiswick, W6
Hounslow 1976

PITT, William, Earl of Chatham.
Here lived three Prime Ministers: William PITT, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778); Edward Geoffrey STANLEY, Earl of Derby (1799-1869); William Ewart GLADSTONE (1809-1898).
10 St James's Square, SW1
Westminster 1910

PITT, WILLIAM, the younger (1759-1806),
Prime Minister, lived here 1803 to 1804.
Replaces first plaque put up in 1904 and later removed.
120 Baker Street, W1
Westminster 1949

PITT-RIVERS, Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox (1827-1900),
Anthropologist and Archaeologist, lived here.
4 Grosvenor Gardens, SW1
Westminster 1983

PLAATJE, Solomon T. (1876-1932),
Black South African Writer and Campaigner for African Rights lived here,
25 Carnarvon Road, E10
Waltham Forest 1986

PLACE, Francis (1771-1854),
Political Reformer, lived here 1833-1851.
21 Brompton Square, SW3
Kensington and Chelsea 1961

PLATH, Sylvia (1932-1963),
Poet lived here 1960-1961.
3 Chalcot Square, Primrose Hill, NW1
Camden 2000

PLAYFAIR, Sir Nigel (1874-1934),
Actor-Manager, lived here.
26 Pelham Crescent, SW7
Kensington and Chelsea 1965

POMBAL, The Marquess of
Sebastiao; Jose; de Carvalho e Mello (1699 -1782)
See PORTUGUESE EMBASSY

POPE, Alexander (1688-1744),
Poet, lived in this row, Mawson's Buildings 1716-1719.
Mawson Arms PH (formerly Mawson's Buildings), 110 Chiswick Lane South, Chiswick, W4
Hounslow 1996

PORTUGUESE EMBASSY
These, two houses, were the, Portuguese Embassy, 1724-1747, The, Marquess of Pombal, Portuguese Statesman, Ambassador, 1739-1744, lived here
23-24 Golden Square, W1
Westminster 1980

POUND, Ezra (1885-1972)
Poet, lived here 1909-1914
10 Kensington Church Walk, W8
Kensington and Chelsea 2004

PRATT, William Henry, (1887-1969),
See KARLOFF, Boris

PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD, THE
In this house The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848.
7 Gower Street, WC1
Camden 1998

PRIESTLEY, J.B. (1894-1984),
Novelist, playwright and essayist, lived here.
3 The Grove, Highgate, N6
Camden 1994

PRIESTLEY, Joseph (1733-1804),
Scientist, Philosopher and Theologian, was Minister to the Gravel Pit Meeting here in 1793-1794.
Ram Place, E9
Hackney 1985

PRIORY of St John the Baptist, Holywell, and the THEATRE.
The site of this building forms part of what was once the precinct of the Priory of St John the Baptist, Holywell.
Within a few yards stood from 1577 to 1598 the first London building specially devoted to the performance of plays and known as 'The Theatre'.
86-88 Curtain Road, EC2
Hackney 1920

PRYDE, James
See RICKETTS, Charles

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