Erection date: 2017
Lord Wolfson of Marylebone, 1927 - 2010, businessman and philanthropist.
WC1, Queen Square, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
The Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre is located in the hospital behind the bust. Opened 15 November 2013 this was funded by a £20 million award from the Wolfson Foundation. Hence the bust.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lord Wolfson bust
Businessman and philanthropist. Leonard Gordon Wolfson was the son of the fir...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Lord Wolfson bust
Bronze copy of the bust of Woolf sculpted by Stephen Tomlin in 1931, on a five-foot-high plinth of Portland stone designed by Stephen Bar...
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
Bust was made in 1980, the same year that Camden gave permission for it to be placed in the square and an appeal for funds was launched.
According to the plaque these are, clockwise from top left: Pete Pope, Tony O'Leary, Grinling Gibbons, Shirley Stewart. Transpontine con...
Until about 1936 the address was 12 Little James Street and up until at least 1944 the pub was the 'White Lion'. In fact the only eviden...
Civil engineer. Born Portsea, Hampshire. Constructions include: Great Western Railway and the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Died at home, 18 Duke Street (see below). A very popular Brit, as illustrate...
Sculptor. Born Lyon. Made his reputation in 1749 with the tomb of the Duke of Argyll in Westminster Abbey. Died penniless.
Missionary and social worker with the British poor, especially children. Born Thomas John Barnardo in Dublin with a Prussian father. "Brought to Christ" in 1862. Arrived at 30 Coburn Street in 1866...
Person, Children, Jack the Ripper suspects, Social Welfare, Ireland
Burnt at the stake in Stratford for his Protestant beliefs. A brewer, associated with Fust. Condemned by Bishop Bonner.
Also referred to as the Paddington rail crash. At 8.06am, a Thames train bound for Bedwyn in Wiltshire left Paddington station. Two minutes later, as it sped along at 41mph, it went through a signa...
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