William Henry Smith blue plaque

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# 12 Hyde Park Street Standing before this elegant Mayfair townhouse, you're at the threshold of where William Henry Smith transformed himself from a railway bookstall entrepreneur into one of Victorian Britain's most influential political figures. During his residence at 12 Hyde Park Street in the...

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12 Hyde Park Street, Westminster, W2

Inscription

W. H. Smith 1825-1891 bookseller and statesman lived here