The London Blue Plaque Guide by Nick Rennison

Author:Nick Rennison [Rennison, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752499963
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

In a house on this site, The Swan and Hoop, JOHN KEATS, poet was born 1795

MOORGATE PUBLIC HOUSE, 85 MOORGATE, EC2

CITY OF LONDON

On this site formerly stood the cottage in which the poet JOHN KEATS served apprenticeship (1811–1815) to Thomas Hammond, a surgeon of this parish

3 KEATS PARADE, CHURCH STREET, N9

BOROUGH OF ENFIELD

On this site poet and apothecary JOHN KEATS and his friend, the poet, apothecary, surgeon and chemist Henry Stephens shared lodgings while studying at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals (1815–1816)

8 ST THOMAS STREET, SE1

GUY’S AND ST THOMAS’ CHARITIES FOUNDATION

Keats was born in London and went to school in Enfield. After leaving school he was apprenticed to an apothecary and he was himself licensed to practise in the profession, but chose to abandon it and concentrate on the writing of poetry. His first volume of verse was published in 1817 and attracted some favourable attention. It was also one of the targets of a vicious and snobbish critical assault by Blackwood’s Magazine on the alleged literary and social pretensions of what the magazine termed the ‘Cockney School’ of poetry. Keats’s younger brother Tom died of tuberculosis the following year and Keats, who had nursed him and was showing symptoms of the disease himself, moved into a house in Hampstead owned by a friend, the house now known as Keats House. It was at this time, despite ill health and the complications of his love for Fanny Brawne, who was living, with her family, next door, that Keats entered upon an extraordinary period of creativity, writing most of the poems, including ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, by which he is best remembered. However, he continued to grow sicker throughout the following two years and, after a last journey to Italy in search of a climate kinder to his tuberculosis, he died in Rome in 1821.

KELLY, SIR GERALD (1879–1972) portrait painter, lived here 1916–1972

117 GLOUCESTER PLACE, W1

Gerald Kelly was a portrait painter to the establishment. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he studied art in Paris and, uninterested in the experiments of the modernists, soon began to make his name in his chosen field. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1930 and became President of the Royal Academy for five years in the early 1950s. Among his best-known works are the state portraits he painted of George VI and his wife, the Queen Mother, in 1945, the year Kelly himself was knighted.

KELVIN, LORD (1824–1907) physicist and inventor, lived here

15 EATON PLACE, SW1

Born in Belfast, the son of a mathematics professor, William Thomson moved with his family to Glasgow in 1832. He attended university there and then studied at Cambridge before returning to Glasgow as Professor of Natural Philosophy at the exceptionally early age of twenty-two. He remained in the post for more than half a century. Thomson was one of the most gifted exponents of both pure and applied science in the nineteenth century. He is remembered particularly as the man whose researches led to the

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