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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Ananda Coomaraswamy
Commemorated ati
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
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
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...
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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...
Alexander Pope - W4
W4, Chiswick Lane South, 110
Alexander Pope, 1688 - 1744, poet, lived in this row, Mawson's Buildings, 1716 - 1719. English Heritage
Edward Appleton
WC2, Strand
Professor Sir Edward Victor Appleton King's College London Nobel Laureate Ionospheric radio, 1924
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...