By resolution of the University College Committee of the Sixth of June 1933 this part of the College is henceforward known as Foster Court in commemoration of the First Provost of the College, Sir T. Gregory Foster Baronet.
WC1, Malet Place, Foster Court
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Gregory Foster
First name was Thomas but he did not use it. The first Provost of University...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Gregory Foster
The first English university established since Oxford and Cambridge and the f...
The image of this lost plaque comes from Wikipedia, where the story of this plaque on 41 Maitland Park Road is told. First erected on 22 ...
The splendid A London Inheritance has found a booklet that was published to raise money for the rebuilding fund. That site quotes extensi...
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
The plaque is on the wall to the right of the gate, in our photo hidden by the bush. A notice on the gate explains that the sections of ...
"The death" to which this inscription refers is Nelson's, so the gift was made on 21 October 1905 though the gardens were not opened unti...
See Denmark Place arson attack for information about the venue and the event. It is thought more than 150 people were inside the building when the attack happened. 37 died and 23 were injured. T...
Group, Tragedy, Bolivia, Colombia, Libya, Mauritius, Scotland, Spain
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) 1903 - 1950, lived and worked here as senior master of the former Hawthorn High School for Boys, April ...
Sir Francis Galton, 1822-1911, explorer, statistician, founder of eugenics, lived here for fifty years.
A family squabble developed into a fight in which Paul Hamilton, 30, of nearby Woodstock Terrace fatally stabbed his cousin, Liam Hamilton, in the back with a large kitchen knife, near the site of ...
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