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Soho Square is a garden square in Soho, London, hosting since 1954 a de facto public park let by the Soho Square Garden Committee to Westminster City Council. It was originally called King Square afte
View of Soho Square in 1992
Soho Square in 1816. At that time farm animals were often driven into London.
The statue of Charles II by Caius Gabriel Cibber stands at the centre of Soho Square
Plaque on the Kirsty MacColl memorial bench in Soho Square
William Beckford (novelist)
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William Thomas Beckford was a British writer and politician. He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner. Beckford was the son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, the daughter of
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…directed that the statue be returned, and it was restored to Soho Square in 1938. The politician William Beckford lived at No. 22 from 1751, and his son William Thomas Beckford, author of the Gothic novel Vathek, may have been born there. In the 1770s, the naturalist Joseph Banks who had circumnavigated the globe with James…
Portrait of William Beckford by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782
William Beckford's Grand Tour through Europe, shown in red
The Fonthill vase, of Chinese Jingdezhen porcelain but adorned with metallic mounts in Europe, was the earliest piece of Chinese porcelain documented to reach Europe, in 1338. It was once in the possession of William Beckford. It is now in the National Museum of Ireland.
The Rubens Vase