This tablet commemorates the naming of this building in 1961 after the first Prime Minister of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Sir John Alexander MacDonald, G.C.B., P.C., Q.C.
The Hon. Paul Martin, P.C., Q.C., High Commissioner for Canada, October 1975.
{This text is then repeated in French.}
W1, Grosvenor Square, 1, MacDonald House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
MacDonald House
Born Glasgow, Scotland. Emigrated to Canada in 1820. first Prime Minister of ...
There were 16 of these open-book style ground plaques, marking the corners of blocks A - D, the 4 main large blocks of buildings in WW2 C...
July 2017: Imgur has a photo showing this plaque replaced with a photo of Fury on a sheet of A4 paper, so we've marked the plaque as lost...
This stone was laid by Lady Kortright, 5 August 1896 and the hospital opened by HRH Princess Louise, 21 July 1897.
In 1903-10 the Savoy Hotel was built by Colcutt and Macmurdo. The magnificently Art Deco Savoy Theatre is in the western section. The sho...
English Heritage David Edward Hughes, 1831 - 1900, scientist and inventor of the microphone, lived and worked here.
From their website: "Sculpture Castings is a leading fine art foundry based in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Offering the complete foundry service and using a range of traditional skills..." Oddly the Ar...
This is a large plaque, perhaps 2 or 3 feet wide. We tracked this plaque down at the Museum of London in November 2021 (before the Museu...
This 1910 Town Hall is by Percy Robinson with W. Alban Jones. Sculpture is by Henry Poole. The 1939 eastern extension is by E. C. P. Monson.
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