![]() She is best known for her ghost stories published as "Weird Stories". (Plaque unveiled on 24 February 2010)Ĭharlotte Eliza Lawson Riddell (1832-1906) - 'Gothic' novelist, author of 56 books, novels and short stories and part owner and editor of "St James's Magazine". He lived at Cecile House, 104 Crouch Hill, N8. He was a writer and editor of the "Liverpool and Manchester Journal" (subsequently the "British Journal of Photography"). George Shadbolt (1819-1901) - Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, early photographer and student of optics with a strong interest in innovative techniques including micro-photography, photographic enlargement, compound and combination printing and stereoscopic angles. He lived at Highwood Lodge, 85 Fortis Green, N2. He was assistant librarian in the British Museum for 19 years, during which he was instrumental in starting the Volunteer movement. He was also a critic, essayist and follower of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. (Plaque unveiled on 5 September 2008)Ĭoventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823-1896) - artist, scientist and poet best known for "The Angel in the House", but his best work is found in the volume of odes called "The Unknown Eros". He lived at 101 St James's Lane, Muswell Hill, N10. He was a founder of the Savage Club and a writer and journalist of domestic science who corresponded with and aided Charles Darwin with his studies. William Bernhardt Tegetmeier (1816-1912) - naturalist, published authority on poultry, beekeeper who discovered how bees created the hexagon shaped cells in their hives, and racing pigeon pioneer. She lived in Ship Inn Yard near High Cross United Reform Church, 310 High Road, Tottenham, N15. She was a founder of the Lying-in Charity for Women and the Penny Savings Bank. Priscilla Wakefield (1751-1832) - Quaker author who wrote a number of travel and science books for children and was actively involved in the abolition of slavery and prison reform. He lived at 25 Southwood Avenue, Highgate, N6. William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) - artist, illustrator and cartoonist known as ‘the Gadget King’ unparalleled as a practitioner of the comic image portraying perversely logical contraptions that gently mocked the products of the industrial age. He lived at ‘Rookfield’, which formerly stood on the site of 14 Cranmore Way, Muswell Hill, N10. William Jefferies Collins (1856-1939) - builder and developer. ![]() While in London, they lived at 51 Alexandra Park Road, Muswell Hill, N10. Oliver Tambo (1917-1993) - former President of the African National Congress, and his wife Adelaide Tambo (1929-2007). ![]() He lived at 74 to 80 Muswell Hill Broadway, Muswell Hill, N10. William Barlow (1845-1934) - Fellow of the Royal Society, crystallographer and mineralogist who deduced that there are just 230 different kinds of symmetry arrangements which form the basis for crystal structures, known as 'space groups'. Historical Green Plaques were erected in Haringey for:
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