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Joseph Aloysius Hansom blue plaque
Joseph Aloysius Hansom · Inventor of the Hansom Cab
Inscription
“Joseph Aloysius Hansom 1803-1882 architect, founder editor of 'The Builder' and inventor of the Hansom Cab lived here”
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1803-82
Life dates
27 Sumner Place, Kensington and Chelsea, SW7
SW3
Erected 1980
administered by English Heritage as part of the London wide plaque scheme, Greater London Council
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