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Howard Staunton is considered to be the first and only British-born world chess champion. A significant chess writer as well as player, he helped change the game from a leisure activity to a competitive sport.
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Blue Plaque commemorating promoter of musical knowledge Sir George Grove at 14 Westwood Hill, Sydenham, London SE26 6QR, London Borough of Lewisham.
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Blue Plaque commemorating promoter of musical knowledge Sir George Grove at 14 Westwood Hill, Sydenham, London SE26 6QR, London Borough of Lewisham.
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Blue Plaque commemorating comedian Tony Hancock at 20 Queen's Gate Place, South Kensington, London SW7 5NY, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Blue Plaque commemorating Hungarian composer Bela Bartok at 7 Sydney Place, South Kensington, London SW7 3NL, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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Blue Plaque commemorating the illustrator of Rupert Bear, Alfred Bestall at 58 Cranes Park, Surbiton KT5 8AS, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, London.
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Blue Plaque commemorating Frederic Chopin's last performance after leaving the house at 4 St James's Place, St James's, London SW1A 1NP.
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Blue Plaque commemorating code-breaker and pioneer of computer science Alan Turing at 2 Warrington Cresent, Maida Vale, London W9 1ER, City of Westminster.
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Blue Plaque commemorating Composer, Actor-Manager & Playwright Ivor Novello at 11 Aldwych, Covent Garden, London WC2B 4DG, City of Westminster.
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18th Century Anti-Slavery Campaigner awarded English Heritage blue plaque
The anti-slavery campaigner Ottobah Cugoano has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque. The plaque marks Schomberg House at 80–82 Pall Mall, where Cugoano, a former slave himself, was employed as a servant by artists Richard and Maria Cosway. It was while living here in the 1780s that Cugoano wrote the book, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Humbly Submitted to the Inhabitants of Great-Britain, one of the first black-authored anti-slavery books to be published in Britain, and – of its era – the most radical in its arguments.