Novelist George Eliot was baptised (as Mary Ann Evans) at Chilvers Coton Church, Nuneaton.
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Categories: West Midlands, living and working
Philosopher Jeremy Bentham lived for forty years in a house on the site now occupied by the Ministry of Justice (102 Petty France).
The house, in what came to be called Queen’s Square Place, was bequeathed to Bentham by his father Jeremiah on his death in 1792. Jeremiah had first rented the house in May 1763 [...]
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This was the birthplace and childhood home of Alan Turing, pioneer of computer science.
On 23 June 1998, on what would have been Turing’s 86th birthday, Andrew Hodges, his biographer, unveiled an official English Heritage Blue Plaque here.
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2 Warrington Crescent is now the Colonnade Hotel.
Categories: London, Places of interest, birthplace, living and working
Novelist George Eliot moved to Griff House shortly after she was born in nearby South Farm in 1819.
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Categories: Places of interest, South East, living and working
A blue plaque marks the childhood home of Nobel prize-winning physicist Paul Dirac.
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This is a private home and not open to the public.
Categories: Places by region, Places of interest, South West, living and working
Novelist E. M. Forster rented 9 Arlington Park Mansions in Chiswick from 1939 until at least 1961.
Categories: London, living and working
26 Brunswick Square was novelist E. M. Forster’s London base from 1930 to 1939, after which he rented 9 Arlington Park Mansions in Chiswick until at least 1961.
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Categories: East of England, Places of interest, ideas and activism, living and working
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Categories: East of England, Places of interest, living and working