{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...
For an idea of what this area used to be like see this 1894ish map. It was all redeveloped following the 1928 flood. This block was desig...
The bust was originally located in the garden of Lincoln House, Parkside, the home of its sculptor Hilda Seligman and her husband Dr Rich...
In April 2009 this statue was beheaded, allegedly by protestors from an unauthorized Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam demonstration.
Here is a video of the unveiling.
Building erected in 1883 by George Attenborough for his jewellery and pawn-broking business, Attenborough and Sons. Architects: Archer an...