Person    | Male  Born 22/8/1877  Died 9/9/1947

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Categories: Art, History

Countries: Ceylon, Indian Sub-continent

A Tamil philosopher and art historian. Born in Ceylon of a Tamil father and an English mother, brought up in England. Studied at University College, London.

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Ananda Coomaraswamy

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Leonard Woolf's Ceylon

We have not followed all the various Sri Lankan lines of research opened up b...

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Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis

Artist and writer. Born Percy Wyndham Lewis but he didn't like the Percy and dropped it. He was born in his wealthy American father's yacht off Amherst, Nova Scotia, to a British mother who left he...

Person, Art, Literature, USA

1 memorial
Charles Maresco Pearce

Charles Maresco Pearce

Artist. Grant Waters has a review of his art which was not known to us before. A number of his London scenes are available on-line. Charles Maresco Pearce was born on 11 June 1874 in South Kensing...

Person, Art

1 memorial
Miya Ando
1 memorial
Sutton twin towns mural

Sutton twin towns mural

Created by Gary Drostle and Rob Turner to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Sutton's twinning with Wilmersdorf, Berlin. It comprises seven panels showing scenes of Sutton and its four European tw...

Place, Art, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy

1 memorial

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Cromwell Buildings

Cromwell Buildings

SE1, Redcross Way

The Prince Regent (later King George IV) had died more than twenty years before the Great Exhibition. They mean the 'Prince Consort', i.e...

4 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Alexander Pope - W4

Alexander Pope - W4

W4, Chiswick Lane South, 110

Alexander Pope, 1688 - 1744, poet, lived in this row, Mawson's Buildings, 1716 - 1719. English Heritage

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Edward Appleton

Edward Appleton

WC2, Strand

Professor Sir Edward Victor Appleton King's College London Nobel Laureate Ionospheric radio, 1924

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Avondale Park

Avondale Park

W11, Walmer Road, The Lodge, Miss Delaney's Nursery School

From RBKC: "Avondale Park, at the top of Pottery Lane, was created in 1892 when the area that had been a huge fetid pool known as "the oc...

6 subjects commemorated