{On a small plaque below the bust:}
Thomas Linacre, c.1460 - 1524, First President of the College 1518 - 24.
Henry Weekes, 1876
This bust is fixed to the wall of the building in the garden seen in the picture.
NW1, St Andrew's Place, Royal College of Physicians
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Linacre bust
Founded by Thomas Linacre in 1518 with a charter granted by Henry VIII. Thei...
Born Canterbury. Studied at Oxford, Rome and Vicenza. Physician to Henry VII...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Linacre bust
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Linacre bust
St Andrew's Place Medical Precinct was opened by Her Majesty The Queen, Visit...
Left to right: Cons, Martineau, Hubback, Baylis. In our photo the pedestrian has just walked past Baylis. These mosaics are on the Maufe...
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
These two must be Somerset and Raglan but which is which we can't tell you.
Building by A. W. Cooksey, 1900. The small busts of the charity children recall the statues which flanked the original Cass statue in its...
Orwell lodged here for a short time, during which he had a punch-up with another lodger who came home drunk. It is possible that Orwell ...
Businessman. Founder of the John Jaques and Son Toy Company, which produced and patented ping pong equipment. See also Jaques of London.
2019: The Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group tell us that this plaque was installed in 2002/3 before they had established th...
Co-operative movement activist and social reformer. Born at Warrington, Lancashire. He joined the Anti-Slavery Society and was a supporter of the Northern cause in the American civil war. His invol...
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