Name panel

Smeaton at IC

Inscription

Smeaton

Site: Imperial College (34 memorials)

SW7, Prince Consort Road, Imperial College

This building, the Royal School of Mines, (1906, Aston Webb). has 34 memorials: a foundation stone, 2 busts and 30 scientists' surnames plus Prince Albert, inscribed above the first floor windows.
The Beit bust is to the right of the entrance, Wernher's to the left. The foundation stone is on the front of Wernher's plinth.

The names read, left to right, starting in Exhibition Road: Tredgold, Rankine, Hopkinson, Watt, Whitworth, Wolfe Barry, Fairbairn, Armstrong, Stephenson, Brunel, Hawksley, and on Prince Consort Road: Bateman, White, Froude, Smeaton, Telford, Rennie, Unwin, Baker, Coode, Wheatstone, Kelvin, (entrance), Siemens, Percy, Murchison, HRH Prince Albert, De la Beche, Lyell, Bessemer, Ramsey, Judd

The names for Wolfe Barry, Unwin and Prince Albert are presented in decorative cartouches.

Apart from their association with this building and the surname we have no information about who these men are. The archivist at Imperial College could not help so we have done the best we can to identify them. Siemens was a large and successful family but we believe we have chosen the right one. We are very open to corrections, so let us know if you think we've got any of these names wrong.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Smeaton at IC

Subjects commemorated i

John Smeaton

Civil engineer.  Born and died at Austhorpe Lodge, Whitkirk, near Leeds. In 1...

Read More

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Smeaton at IC

Also at this site i

Nearby Memorials

Nipper Alley

Nipper Alley

KT1, Clarence Street

The naming of the alley after the HMV dog (buried nearby), upset the Kingston Society, who wanted it called Empire Way after the former t...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Fairbairn at IC

Fairbairn at IC

SW7, Prince Consort Road, Imperial College

This building, the Royal School of Mines, (1906, Aston Webb). has 34 memorials: a foundation stone, 2 busts and 30 scientists' surnames p...

1 subject commemorated
Judd at IC

Judd at IC

SW7, Prince Consort Road, Imperial College

This building, the Royal School of Mines, (1906, Aston Webb). has 34 memorials: a foundation stone, 2 busts and 30 scientists' surnames p...

1 subject commemorated
LSHTM - Jenner

LSHTM - Jenner

WC1, Gower Street, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

This listed building was designed by Vernor Rees in 1926, one of the first steel-framed buildings ever erected. The balconies are decorat...

1 subject commemorated
Battersea Town Hall - Grand Hall entrance

Battersea Town Hall - Grand Hall entrance

SW11, Town Hall Road, Grand Hall

Intriguingly, the panels are 'palimpsests' or overwritten texts. We can make out some of the previous words and they seem to be saying ba...

3 subjects commemorated

Previously viewed

Cecil Thomas

Cecil Thomas

Sculptor and medalist.  Born 24 Hedley Road, Shepherd's Bush.  Many commissions for the Royal Mint.  Other work in London: the Tubby Clayton and  Alfred Henry Forster tombs (effectively horizontal ...

Person, Sculpture

4 memorials
Marconi - W2

Marconi - W2

W2, Hereford Road, 71

Guglielmo Marconi, 1874 - 1937, the pioneer of wireless communication, lived here in 1896 - 1897. London County Council

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
James Esdaile
1 memorial
R. Welder

R. Welder

Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.

Person, Armed Forces, South Africa

War dead, Other war
1 memorial
P. E. Beachcroft

P. E. Beachcroft

Chairman of Jahncke Ltd in 1912.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial