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

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Categories: Art, History

Countries: Indian Sub-continent, Sri Lanka

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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B. P. Arnold

B. P. Arnold

Bernard Philip Arnold M.M., was born on 30 May 1893 in Birmingham, Warwickshire. He was one of the five children of Edward Alexander Arnold (1860-1908) and Osburga Arnold née Smallwood (1856-1936)....

Person, Art, Sculpture

8 memorials
Philip de Laszlo

Philip de Laszlo

Painter. Born Budapest.  In 1907 moved to London and stayed, though he often travelled for portrait commissions which included many royal families. His good relations with what became the enemy in...

Person, Art, Hungary

1 memorial
John Edwards

John Edwards

abstract painter and sculptor, and teacher. Born in London and grew up in Hornsey. Head of painting and sculpture at St Martin's School of Art, London, in the 1980s. In the last decade of his life,...

Person, Art

1 memorial
Joseph William Comyns Carr

Joseph William Comyns Carr

Born 47 Devonshire Street. Author, gallery director and theatre manager. In 1877 he became co-director of the Grosvenor Gallery in Bond Street, which promoted the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brother...

Person, Art, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Theatre

1 memorial
Donald McGill

Donald McGill

Cartoonist. Born Donald Fraser Gould McGill in (depending on source), 46 Park Street, Regent's Park or Blackheath. He started work as a naval draughtsman, but began illustrating postcards when a re...

Person, Art

2 memorials

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Grosvenor Chapel

Grosvenor Chapel

W1, South Audley Street

Built in 1730 this chapel provided the architectural model for many New England churches.

2 subjects commemorated
Fig Tree Court

Fig Tree Court

EC4, Inner Temple, Elm Court

An information board provides: "The end of Inner Temple Hall facing Elm Court is the Knights' medieval crypt and buttery, the oldest room...

3 subjects commemorated
Earl Birkenhead

Earl Birkenhead

SW1, Grosvenor Gardens, 32

London County Council F. E. Smith, Earl of Birkenhead, 1872 - 1930, lawyer and statesman, lived here.

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