Inscriptions: Joyce Carey
This blue plaque on 12 Parks Road reads:
JOYCE
CARY
NOVELIST
LIVED HERE
1920–1957
Joyce Cary (1888–1957) was born Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary. He was an Anglo-Irish novelist and artist who had studied at Trinity College, Oxford in 1912.
He was a colonial offier in Nigeria until 1920, when after some success in writing he retired and bought this house, where he lived until his death with his wife Gertrude and their four sons.
Wikipedia: Joyce Cary