Update: Porter plaque

5 June 2008

Lewisham has honoured the eminent historian Roy Porter by affixing a plaque to his childhood home.

Professor Porter, who died in 2002 at the early age of 56, came to the (then) Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1979 and was Director of the history of medicine unit in 2001 when it passed to UCL. Sir Steve Bullock, the Mayor of Lewisham, unveiled the plaque at 13 Camplin Street, New Cross Gate, on 5 June 2008.