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Blue plaques celebrate great figures of the past and the buildings that they inhabited   The Blue Plaques scheme has been run by English Heritage since 1986 and there are over 760 in London.  Click here for further information.

 

Please note that the Blue Plaques shown here are all within Bloomsbury, but not all of them are on properties owned by The Bedford Estates.

 

More Blue Plaques in Bloomsbury are being added to this page.

 

Charles Darwin - Naturalist

Biological Sciences Builidng, University College London, (site of 1-10) Gower Street

Charles Dickens - Novelist

Tavistock Square 

   
 

Robert Travers Herford - Scholar

Dr William's Library, 14 Gordon Square

 

Sir George Williams - Founder of Y.M.C.A

13 Russell Square

   
 

Thomas Hodgkin - Physician

35 Bedford Square

 

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

7 Gower Street

Ophelia, by Sir John Everett Millais in 1851/2, was painted in this house.

   
 

Thomas Wakley - Reformer

35 Bedford Square