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Dadabhai Naoroji, an Indian nationalist and the first Indian to win a popular election to Parliament in the UK, is commemorated with a blue plaque at 72 Anerley Park, Penge, where he lived around the turn of the 20th century.
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CUGOANO, OTTOBAH (born c 1757)
A blue plaque at 80-82 Pall Mall, London, commemorates Ottobah Cugoano, the author and anti-slavery campaigner.
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Blue Plaque commemorating singer Al Bowlly at Charing Cross Mansions, 26 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0DG, City of Westminster.
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BUXTON, Sir Thomas Fowell (1786–1845)
The anti-slavery campaigner and social reformer Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton is commemorated at the Directors’ House, Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London, his main home from 1808 until 1815.
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Blue Plaque commemorating composer Eric Coates at Chiltern Court, Baker Street, London NW1 5SG, City of Westminster.
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A blue plaque in Putney, London Borough of Wandsworth, commemorates Abdus Salam, the physicist and Nobel Prize winner. He lived there between 1957 and 1996.
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FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790)
Blue plaque commemorating statesman Benjamin Franklin at 36 Craven Street, Charing Cross, London WC2N 5NF, City of Westminster.
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WILBERFORCE, William (1759-1833)
The politician and abolitionist William Wilberforce is commemorated with a blue plaque on the site of his former home at 111 Broomwood Road in Battersea. He lived at Broomwood House (which was demolished in 1904) from 1797 until 1808, during the height of his campaign against slavery.
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Blue Plaque commemorating writer Grahame Greene at 14 Clapham Common North Side, Clapham, London SW4 0RF, London Borough of Lambeth.
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Thomas Wallis was an architect whose firm transformed design for industry and transport. He is commemorated with a blue plaque at Victoria Coach Station, which he designed, and where the Wallis, Gilbert and Partners’ offices were located.