Erection date: 1930
{Inscribed on the red granite plinth:}
Lincoln by Andrew O'Connor
Presented to the Gresham Committee by the Lincoln Committee 1930
{Inscribed into the stone on the left side:}
Lincoln by O'Connor
EC3, Royal Exchange Buildings, Royal Exchange
Easily missed, this bust was brought to our attention by IanVisits. It's at the eastern entrance to the building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
President Lincoln bust
16th President of the USA. Born Kentucky. Assassinated while watching a very ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
President Lincoln bust
Gresham College (founded in 1597 under the will of Sir Thomas Gresham) is fin...
Active in 1930. Trying to research this we found a number of "Lincoln Commit...
Sculptor. Born USA, not to be confused with his father also a sculptor with ...
Shakespeare to the left, Milton to the right.
What Pub tells a sorry tale: "Built in 1840. ... pub closed on 7 Sept. 2016 ... Planning app dated 03 Aug 2018: Change of use of first an...
While Prince of Wales Edward was Grand Master of the English Freemasons. The quote is from Milton's "To the Lord General Cromwell, on the...
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...
The artist Carrie Reichardt is part of this group, probably its main artist, "Mad in England" being her trademark. 2018: Via Facebook Carrie kindly confirmed that she had made this series for a co...
John Harris Heal established a feather dressing business at 33 Rathbone Place, moving to Tottenham Court Road in 1818. This became a family business selling beds and moved to larger premises in the...
We can find no information but assume this is/was a group created to protect the heritage of St John's Wood.
Also called Bunhill Fields Burial Ground and so easy to confuse with the non-conformist Bunhill Fields Burial Ground which is on the other side of Bunhill Row. From London Gardens Online: “Quaker ...
Poet Laureate. Born Lincolnshire. Wrote 'Morte d'Arthur' (1859-85) about King Arthur and 'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) a long elegy for his Cambridge friend and his sister Emily's fiancé, Arthur He...
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