SAVILE BLUE & GREEN
PLAQUES IN GREATER LONDON
As I walk to and from our bookshop along the south side of Bedford Square in Bloomsbury (often four times a day if lunch at the Club is included) I almost always look at the Blue Plaque on No. 41 for the writer Anthony Hope [Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933)], author of The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and other novels of adventure and romancer, and wonder what life was like in that grand house where he lived with his young American wife, Elizabeth and children from 1903 to 1917. In the 1911 Census he (aged 48) is living there with his wife (aged 27), their daughter Millicent (5), son Richard (5), a nursery governess, nurse, parlourmaid, housemaid, and cook. He was member of the Savile only from 1887 to 1891 when he was still earning a living as a barrister, though already writing short stories, and living at 2 Bridewell Place with his widowed father, Rev. Edward Comerford Hawkins, Vicar of St Bride’s, Fleet Street, who was a member from 1869 until his death in 1906. In Who’s Who he later listed his clubs as the Garrick and Athenaeum, but I suppose we must forgive him.
It set me thinking about other Savilian plaques and I have found that at least 66 Savilians (& 1 Temporary Member) are honoured by Blue & Green Plaques in Greater London. If you notice one that I have missed please let me know.
ALEXANDER Sir George (1858-1919) "ACTOR MANAGER lived here" 57 Pont Street, Chelsea SW1X 0BD
ALMA-TADEMA Sir Lawrence (1836-1912) "Painter lived here 1886–1912" 44 Grove End Road, St John's Wood NW8 9NE BALCON Sir Michael (1896-1977), "Film Producer worked here 1938-56" Ealing Studios, Ealing Green, Ealing W5 5EP, and a Green Plaque "lived here 1927-39" at 57a Tufton Street, SW1P 3QL BARRIE Sir James M. (1860-1937) "NOVELIST AND DRAMATIST lived here” 100 Bayswater Road, Bayswater W2 3HJ & (with others) “Livered here” 1-3 Robert Street, Adelphi, Charing Cross WC2N 6BN BEERBOHM Sir Max (1872-1956) "ARTIST AND WRITER born here" 57 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington W8 4RU
57 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington
BESANT Sir Walter (1836-1901) "Novelist and Antiquary Lived and died here" 18 Frognal Gardens, Hampstead NW3 5XA BLISS Sir Arthur (1891-1975) "Composer lived here 1929-39" East Heath Lodge, 1 East Heath Road, Hampstead NW3 1BN
BODLEY George Frederick (1827-1907) "Architect lived here 1862–1873" 109 Harley Street, Marylebone W1T 6AN
BOULT Sir Adrian (1889-1983) "Conductor lived at flat No.78 1966–1977" 78 Marlborough Mansions, Cannon Hill, West Hampstead NW6 1JT CARTER Howard (1874-1939) "Egyptologist and discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamen lived here" 19 Collingham Gardens, South Kensington SW5 0HL COPEMAN Sydney Monckton (1862-1947) "Immunologist and developer of smallpox vaccine lived here" 57 Redcliffe Gardens, Chelsea SW10 9JJ CROOKES Sir William (1832-1919) "SCIENTIST lived here from 1880 until his death" 7 Kensington Park Gardens, Notting Hill W11 3HB
DAY-LEWIS Cecil (1809-1903) "Poet Laureate lived here 1957-72" 6 Croom's Hill, Greenwich SE10 8HL DILKE Sir Charles Wentworth (1843-1911) "Statesman and Author lived here" 76 Sloane Street, Brompton SW1 9SF DONAT Robert (1905-58) "Actor lived here" 8 Meadway, Hampstead Garden Suburb NW11 7JT
8 Meadway, Hampstead Garden Suburb
DYSON Sir Frank Watson (1868-1939) "Astronomer Royal lived here 1894-1906" 6 Vanbrugh Hill, Blackheath SE3 7UF EDDINGTON Sir Arthur Stanley (1882-1944) "Mathematician and Astrophysicist lived here" 4 Bennett Park, Blackheath SE3 9RB ELGAR Sir Edward (1857-1934) "Composer lived here 1890-91" 51 Avonmore Road, West Kensington W14 8RT; & a Green Plaque “opened and recorded in these studios on 12th November 1931” at Abbey Studios, 3 Abbey Road NW8 9AY FISHER Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962) "Statistician and Geneticist lived here 1896–1904" Inverforth House, North End Way, Hampstead NW3 7EU FORSTER Edward Morgan (1879-1970) "Novelist lived here" Arlington Park Mansions, Sutton Lane, Turnham Green W4 4HE FRAMPTON Sir George (1860-1928) "Sculptor lived and worked here 1894–1908" 32 Queen's Grove, St John’s Wood NW8 6HJ FRY Charles Burgess (1872-1956) "All-round Sportsman was born here" 144 St James's Road, Croydon CR0 2UY FRY Roger Eliot (1866-1934) "In this house Roger Fry 1866–1934 Artist and Art Critic ran the Omega Workshops 1913–1919", 33 Fitzroy Square, Fitzrovia W1P 6AY
GOSSE Sir Edmund (1829-1948) "Writer and Critic born here 56 Mortimer Road, De Beauvoir Town N1 5AP GREEN John Richard (1837-1883) "Historian of the English People lived here 1866-1869" St Philip's Vicarage, Newark Street, Whitechapel E1 2AA & “lived in a house on this site 1869-1876 4 Beaumont Street, Marylebone W1G 6AA HAGGARD Sir Henry Rider (1856-1925) "Novelist lived here 1885-88" 69 Gunterstone Road, West Kensington W14 9BS HARDY Thomas (1840-1928) "Poet & Novelist lived here 1878-81" 172 Trinity Road, Tooting SW17 7HT & (with others at) The Adelphi Terrace, Charing Cross WC2N 6BJ
172 Trinity Road, Tooting
HAWKINS Sir Anthony Hope (1863-1933) "Novelist lived here 1903–1917" 41 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury WC1B 3HX HOLST Gustav (1874-1934) (temporary member) "Composed wrote The Planets and taught here" St Paul's Girls' School, Brook Green W6 7BS HOWELLS Herbert (1892-1983) "Composer and Teacher lived here 1946-83" 13 Beverley Close, Barnes SW13 0EH HUXLEY Sir Julian Sorell & Leonard HUXLEY (1860-1933) [& Aldous Huxley] "Men of Science and Letters lived here" 16 Bracknell Gardens, Hampstead NE3 7EB HUXLEY Leonard (1860-1933) (see above)
JAMES Henry (1843-1916) "WRITER lived here 1886–1902" 34 De Vere Gardens, Kensington W8 5AQ JONES Dr (Alfred) Ernest Jones "Pioneer Psychoanalyst lived here" 19 York Terrace East, Regent's Park NW1 4PT KELVIN, William Thomson, Lord (1824-1907) "Physicist and Inventor lived here" 15 Eaton Place, Belgravia SW1X 8BN KIPLING Rudyard (1865-1936) "poet and story writer lived here 1889–1891" 43 Villiers Street, Charing Cross WC2N 6NE
43 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
LOCKYER Sir Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) "Astronomer, Physicist and Founder of Nature lived here 1876– 1920" 16 Penywern Road, Earl's Court SW5 9ST LOW David "Cartoonist lived here at No. 33" Melbury Court, Kensington High Street, Kensington W8 6NH
MILNE Alan Alexander (1882-1956) "Author lived here" 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea SW3 6DT MOORE Henry (1898-1986) "Sculptor lived and worked here 1929–1940" 11a Parkhill Road, Hampstead NW3 2YH MURROW Edward R. (1908-65) "American Broadcaster lived here in flat No.5 1938–1946" Weymouth House, 84-94 Hallam Street, Fitzrovia W1W 5HF NEWBOLT Sir Henry (1862-1938) "Poet lived here" 29 Campden Hill Road, Holland Park W8 7DX NICHOLSON Sir William (1872-1949) "Painter and Printmaker lived here 1904–1906" 1 Pilgrim's Lane, Hampstead NW3 1SJ NICOLSON Sir Harold (1886-1968) (with Vita Sackville-West) "Writers and Gardeners lived here" 182 Ebury Street, Belgravia SW1W 8UP
ORPEN Sir William (1878-1931) "Painter lived here" 8 South Bolton Gardens, South Kensington SW5 0DH PARRY Sir Hubert (1848-1914) "MUSICIAN lived here" 17 Kensington Square, Kensington W8 5HH PATER Walter (1839-94) "Aesthete and Writer lived and worked here 1885–1893" 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington W8 6LP PATMORE Coventry (1823-96) "Poet and Essayist lived here 1863–1864" 14 Percy Street, Fitzrovia W1T 1DR PEARSON Karl (1857-1936) "Pioneer Statistician lived here" 7 Well Road, Hampstead NW3 1LH POWELL Michael (1905-90) & Emeric PRESSBURGER (1902-88) "Film-Makers worked here in Flat 120" Dorset House, Gloucester Place, Marylebone NW1 5AG PRESSBURGER Emeric (1902-88) (see above)
PRIESTLEY John Boynton (1894-1984) "Novelist, playwright and essayist lived here" 3 The Grove, Highgate N6 6JU RAMSAY Sir William (1852-1916) "Chemist Discoverer of the Noble Gases lived here 1887-1902" 12 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill W11 2LA RICHARDSON Sir Ralph (1902-83) "Actor lived here 1944-1968" Bedegar's Lea, Kenwood Close, Hamsptead Garden Suburb NW3 7JL
Bedegar’s Lea, Kenwood Close, Hampstead Garden Suburb
ROTHENSTEIN Sir William (1872-1945) "Painter and Writer lived here 1899–1902" 1 Pembroke Cottages, Edwardes Square, Kensington W8 6HE SHARP Cecil James (1859-1924) "Collector of English Folk Songs and dances lived here" 4 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead NW3 5SU SMITH William Henry (1825-91) "BOOKSELLER and STATESMAN lived here" 12 Hyde Park Street, Paddington W2 2JN STANFORD Sir Charles Villiers (1852-1924) "Musician lived here 1894–1916" 56 Hornton Street, Holland Park W8 4NU
STEPHEN Sir Leslie (1832-1904) "Scholar and writer lived here" 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington SW7 5DH
STRACHEY (Giles) Lytton (1880-1932) "Critic and Biographer lived here" 51 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury WC1 0PN THORNEYCROFT Sir (William) Hamo (1850-1925) "Sculptor lived here" 2a Melbury Road, Holland Park W14 8LP WALTON Sir William (1902-83) "Composer lived here" Lowndes Cottage, 8 Lowndes Place, Belgravia SW1X 8DD
Lowndes Cottage, 8 Lowndes Place, Belgravia
WATERHOUSE Alfred (1830-1905) "Architect lived here" 61 New Cavendish Street, Marylebone W1G 7AR
WAUGH Evelyn (1903-66) "Writer lived here" 145 North End Road, Golders Green NW11 7HT WEISZ Victor (Vicky) (1913-66) "Cartoonist lived and died in a flat in this building" Welbeck Mansions, 35 Welbeck Street, Marylebone (plaque on New Cavendish Street elevation)
WELLS Herbert George "WRITER lived and died here" 13 Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park NW1 4JR YEATS William Butler (1865-1939) "Irish poet and dramatist lived here" 23 Fitzroy Road, Primrose Hill NW1 8TP
FIND A PLAQUE NEAR YOU CR0 - C. B. Fry E1 - John Richard Green N1 - Sir Edmund Gosse N6 - J. B. Priestley NW1 - Dr Ernest Jones, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats NW3 - Sir Walter Besant, Sir Arthur Bliss, Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Julian & Leonard Huxley, Henry Moore, Sir William Nicholson, Karl Pearson, Sir Ralph Richardson, Cecil Sharp
NW6 - Sir Adrian Boult NW8 - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sir George Frampton, Sir Edward Elgar NW11 - Robert Donat, Evelyn Waugh SE3 - Sir Frank Watson Dyson, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington SE10 - Cecil Day-Lewis SW1 - Sir George Alexander, Sir Michael Balcon, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Lord Kelvin, Sir Harold Nicolson, Sir William Walton SW3 - A. A. Milne SW5 - Howard Carter, Sir Norman Lockyer, Sir William Orpen SW7 - Sir Leslie Stephen SW10 - Sydney Monckton Copeman SW13 - Herbert Howells W1 - George Frederick Bodley, Roger Fry, John Richard Green, Ed Murrow, Coventry Patmore, Aldred Waterhouse, Victor (Vicky) Weisz W2 - Sir J. M. Barrie, W. H. Smith W4 - E. M. Forster W5 - Sir Michael Balcon W6 - Gustav Holst (temporary member) W8 - Sir Max Beerbohm, Henry James, David Low, Sir Henry Newbolt, Sir Hubert Parry, Walter Pater, Sir William Rothenstein, Sir Charles Stanford W11 - Sir William Crookes, Sir William Ramsay W14 - Sir Edward Elgar, Sir H. Rider Haggard, Sir Hamo Thorneycroft WC1 - Lytton Strachey WC2 - Sir J. M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, Rudyard Kipling
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