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DE GAULLE, General Charles (1890–1970)
General Charles de Gaulle led France’s government-in-exile during the Second World War and set up the headquarters of the Free French Forces at 4 Carlton Gardens. He later became the President of France.
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Blue plaque commemorating botanists Sir Joseph Banks, Robert Brown and David Don who lived at 32 Soho Square, Soho, London W1D 3AP, City of Westminster.
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Blue Plaque commemorating comedian Tommy Cooper at 51 Barrowgate Road, Chiswick, London W4 4QT, London Borough of Hounslow.
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Blue Plaque commemorating film-maker and gay rights campaigner Derek Jarman at Butler's Wharf Building, 36 Shad Thames, London, SE1 2YE, London Borough of Southwark.
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Blue plaque to the creator of The Muppets, Jim Henson. The plaque marks his former home 50 Downshire Hill in Hampstead, London, NW3 1PA, London Borough of Camden.
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Blue plaque commemorating politician Henry Labouchere at St James Independent School for Boys, Pope's Villa, 19 Cross Deep, Twickenham TW1 4QG, London.
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Blue Plaque commemorating musician Lionel Tertis at 42 Marryat Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 5BD, London Borough of Merton.
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Blue plaque to the creator of The Muppets, Jim Henson. The plaque marks his former home 50 Downshire Hill in Hampstead, London, NW3 1PA, London Borough of Camden.
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Blue Plaque commemorating film-maker and gay rights campaigner Derek Jarman at Butler's Wharf Building, 36 Shad Thames, London, SE1 2YE, London Borough of Southwark.
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A.V. Hill, Nobel Prize winner & sports medicine pioneer, receives English Heritage Blue Plaque
A.V. Hill (1886-1977), one of the founding fathers of sports medicine and the first Briton to win the Nobel Prize for Physiology, has been honoured with an English Heritage Blue Plaque at his former home in Highgate, North London. In addition to his work within the field of physiology, he was a highly respected independent MP during the Second World War and a humanitarian – he helped over nine hundred academics escape persecution by the Nazis.