Architect. Born 9 Portland Place, now Bartholomew Street, SE1. His partnership with Harold Peto was extremely successful. They designed many of the houses in Harrington and Collingham Gardens including 39 Harrington Gardens for W. S. Gilbert. Other London work: The Royal Exchange Buildings on Cornhill, Royal Academy of Music in Marylebone Road, Southwark Bridge. Died at home, 71 Palace Court, Bayswater.
2023: Spitalfields Life has a whole post about George's London etchings.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Ernest George
Sir Ernest George (1839 - 1922), architect, lived here. Southwark Council
Built by Sir Ernest George, Royal Academician, President Royal Institute of B...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Sir Ernest George
Henry Lofts erected this fountain without naming anyone he wished to commemor...
Thomas Griffin, fitters labourer, April 12, 1899, in a boiler explosion at a ...
{Beneath the 'bridge mark' of the Bridge House Estates and above the City of ...
The picture source website points out: The house at which this caller is visiting is No. 11, and there is a brass plate on the door bearing the words "G. Baxter, Offices No. 12".
At Arts and Humanities Research Council we found a brief biography of Leonard (1914-2004) which includes: "In 1951 he and his family moved to Bedford Park, Chiswick (the first garden suburb) where ...
Ancient city of Mesopotamia (located mainly in modern-day Iraq). It dates from circa 3,800 B.C. The site is noted for its prominent ziggurat. It started to decline from around 550 BC and was no lon...
The authoritative-looking picture source website gives the date of opening as 4 April 1892 (contradicting the plaque) and the closing date as 1949 for passengers and 1962 finally.
