Kenneth Williams
Farley Court · Carry On star, and Polari on the radio
Kenneth Williams was one of Britain’s best-loved comic performers – the Carry On films, and the radio show Round the Horne, where as Sandy (with Hugh Paddick’s Julian) he brought the gay slang Polari to millions who had no idea what they were hearing.
Gay and often unhappy, he recorded a private life of great complexity in diaries published after his death. He lived at Farley Court, near Baker Street. English Heritage’s blue plaque marks the flat.