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Dead Celebrities Tour of London
Copyright 2003 by The Travel Experts at Go.For-Travel

You may have to go to Hollywood for the best tour of film- star homes, but London has been home to far more celebrities than any other city on Earth.

Some lived all their lives in London, others only part. Samuel Johnson maintained that "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of Life". Benjamin Franklin lived for some time in London and regarded England as home.

There are many famous homes, houses and preserved museums in London but for the visitor wanting to see more than the usual tourist route, the following, less well known sites may prove interesting.

BLAKE, William (1757-1827) Artist, Engraver
31 Great Queen Street: lived and worked here 1771-1778

BOSWELL, James (1740-1795) Biographer, Lawyer
122 Great Portland Street: completed the Life of Johnson.

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) Poet
50 Wimpole Street: eloped from here.

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882) Naturalist, Evolution
41 Great Marlborough Street:

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) Writer
48 Doughty Street: completed Pickwick Papers & Oliver Twist.

DISRAELI, Benjamin (1804-1881) Prime Minister
6 Bloomsbury Square: family home age 14 - 25.

FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867) Physicist
21 Albemarle Street: home & laboratory 1813 - 1858.

FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790) American Statesman
36 Craven Street: home from 1764 - 1775.

FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939) Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead: where he died.

JAMES Henry (1843-1916) Author
21 Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea: 1913-1916.

JOHSON, Samuel (1709-1784) Lexicographer
1 Inner Temple Lane: 1760 - 1765.

KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936) Author
43 Villiers Street, Westminster.

MARX, Karl (1818-1883) Socialist
28 Dean Street, Westminster: writing Das Kapital.

NELSON, Lord Horatio (1758-1803) Admiral
5 Cavendish Square and 103 New Bond Street.

NEWTON, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Mathematician
88 then 87 Jermyn Street.

NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910) Nurse
47 Harley Street: street still synonymous with medicine.

VAN GOUGH, Vincent (1853-1890) Artist
87 Hackfor Road, Lambeth: as a trainee art dealer.

WILDE Oscar (1854-1900) Playwright
34 Tite Street, Chelsea. 1884 -1895.

WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941) Writer
29 Fitzroy Square: Formation of Bloomsbury Group.

June 2003

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