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:This is an article about the place in London. For other uses of the name, see Putney (disambiguation).Putney is a district in South-West London in the London Borough of Wandsworth in London, England.
Putney is situated on the southern bank of the Thames opposite Fulham. At St Mary's Church, Putney in 1647, representatives of the New Model Army debated the constitutional future of England. The first University Boat Race was at Putney in 1845. Since 1856 it has been an annual event, beginning at Putney Bridge.
Famous residents
- Algernon Swinburne the poet
- Theodore Watts, who looked after Swinburne
- Constance GarnettConstance Garnett (nee Black ( 1861- 1946) was the first English translator who translated all of Chekhov's works into English. Garnett studied Latin and Greek, worked shortly as a school teacher and then, in 1893, started translating Russian literature,, translator of War and PeaceWar and Peace Voyna i mir ) is an epic novel of Russian history and society by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869, which tells the story of Russia during the Napoleonic Era. The Russian words for 'peace' and 'world' are homonyms, so the novel', Anna KareninaAnna Karenina is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1877 through 1878, set against the background of contemporary Russian society. Its theme is the institution of marriage and its relation to society and morality. The novel initially appeared serially i, Crime and PunishmentCrime and Punishment is a novel written in 1866 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Along with War and Peace, this novel is amongst the best known and most influential Russian novels of all time. The novel gives expression to Dostoevsky's existentialist, and other Russian literature.
- Leonard WoolfLeonard Woolf ( November 25, 1880 August 14, 1969) married Virginia Woolf in 1912. He was a political theorist and a civil servant who worked in Ceylon. He and his wife became the nexus of the Bloomsbury group and the couple founded the Hogarth Press., husband of Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf ( January 25, 1882 March 28, 1941) was a British author and feminist. Between the world wars, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Life and Work Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in Lon grew up in Putney
- Edvard BenesEdvard Bene ( May 28, 1884 September 3, 1948) was a leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement and the second President of Czechoslovakia. Since 1912 a teacher at the Charles University of Prague, 1916- 1918 a Secretary of the Czechoslovak National, the second President of Czechoslovakia, lived in Gwendolen Avenue during his exile in London from October 1938 to the end of World War II
- Clement Attlee was born, brought up and cremated in Putney.
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