Erection date: 23/10/1953
{Inscribed on stone plinth:}
Livingstone
In Kensington Gore façade, on right of picture. The unveiling ceremony is detailed here (thanks to Jamie Davis for the link).
SW7, Kensington Gore, Royal Geographic Society
Ornamental Passions's post had good photos of the statues. Apparently cabbies call this "hot and cold corner" (think about it). The room behind is the lecture hall.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Livingstone statue
Explorer, missionary, writer and medic. Born at Blantyre, just south of Glasg...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
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Born Aberdeen. Winner of the Prix de Rome. Other work in London includes the ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Livingstone statue
This identification of the statues on front of this building is only tentative, suggested by Ornamental Passions.
This badly deteriorated statue could be anyone. We have found a reference to it as a statue of a barbarian. It was dug up by British troo...
There are two plaques on the blue bench behind the statues: Plaque 1: The characters for this Portrait Bench chosen by your community ce...
The monument, officially titled the Prince Consort National Memorial, celebrates Victorian achievement and Prince Albert's passions and i...
This photo of the statue in place in Red Lion Square comes from RedLionSquare. The cut-out photo comes from McFall's website from where c...
Barbara Mary Austin was born on 2 August 1920 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, the youngest of the four children of Edward Neville Lefroy Austin (1873-1924) and Nora Frances Aust...
Founder of The Finchley Society. Andrew Behan found their website very informative: Jean Leslie Scott, The Finchley Society’s founder, was born on 21 March 1921 and lived in Finchley since her ch...
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