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 ...
This building, 1896, designed by Ewan Christian, has 18 busts contained in medallions around the top of the facades. Starting at the east...
The busts are on the keystones of the library first floor window arches, numbered left to right. Ornamental Passions has posted about th...
The three central first floor windows of the Strand Block of Somerset House are each topped, below their pediment, with a relief portrait...
Shakespeare to the left, Milton to the right.
By 1608 this street was known as Peticote Lane for the second-hand clothes, etc. which were bought and sold here, right on the boundary with the City. In about 1830 the street name was changed to M...
Railway and tunnelling engineer. Born in Grahamstown, South Africa. Arrived in England in 1859. Studied with and then worked with civil engineer Peter W. Barlow on the Tower Subway tunnel. The trav...
John Douglas Slim, son of General Slim. 2nd viscount. 1944 joined the army. 1971 made President of the Burma Star Association. His Wikipedia page gives details of his life and confirms that he di...
Active in the queer arts community, once photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for Vogue. Brixton was aged 41 when, cycling to work, a lorry crashed into her and she and died at the scene. According to t...
