Person    | Male  Born 25/11/1835  Died 11/8/1919

Andrew Carnegie

Industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Born Dunfermline, Scotland in a one-room cottage. 1848 the family emigrated to Pennsylvania, USA. Only about 5 feet in height and garrulous, Carnegie entered the business world and became extremely wealthy, mainly through his steel empire. In the early 1900s he sold the Carnegie Steel Company for a huge amount of money which he then used for his philanthropic career. Unusually he was not motivated by religion but by social values.

His gifts included 3,000 public libraries (Carnegie Legacy England lists over 20 in London), mainly in English-speaking countries. He also created a number of institutions in Dunfermline and Scotland generally.  We've searched for, but not found, a list of the gifts that he made in London.

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Andrew Carnegie

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Carnegie - Hammersmith

This building was the gift of Andrew Carnegie, AD 1905.

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Carnegie - Islington West Library

Metropolitan Borough of Islington Public Libraries This building, towards whi...

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Peter Pain

Peter Pain

A Huguenot refugee from Dieppe. He, along with his family and a French minister were killed by a massive gunpowder explosion at the Temple Mills in Leyton in 1690. Wikipedia puts the explosion "on ...

Person, Industry, Tragedy, France

1 memorial
Gordon Usmar

Gordon Usmar

Gordon Usmar was born on 26 October 1881 in Chiswick, Middlesex (now Greater London), one of the six children of John Henry Usman (1847-1929) and Agnes Ness Usman née Grant (1851-1946). His birth w...

Person, Industry

1 memorial
Ludwig Mond

Ludwig Mond

Born in Germany. Studied chemistry and then worked in factories, coming to England in 1862. Following marriage in 1866 Frida and Ludwig moved to England, had two sons: Robert (see the Infants Hospi...

Person, Industry, Science

1 memorial
Harland & Wolff - Galleon's Point

Harland & Wolff - Galleon's Point

Shipbuilders, ship repairers and engineers with an address in Woolwich Manor Way, but it was an extensive site. We think it was bounded by, clockwise: Woolwich Manor Way, Albert Road, Barge House R...

Group, Industry

2 memorials
Sir Henry Doulton

Sir Henry Doulton

Businessman, inventor and manufacturer of pottery. Born Vauxhall Walk where his father was a partner in a pottery business, Doulton and Watts. Followed his brother, John junior, into the business. ...

Person, Craft / Design, Industry, Politics & Administration

3 memorials

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V&A façade - Chambers

V&A façade - Chambers

SW7, Cromwell Road

Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
occupants of lost graves at St John the Baptist upon Walbrook

occupants of lost graves at St John the Baptist upon Walbrook

The dead interred in the ancient church & churchyard of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook during four centuries. The formation of the District Railway having necessitated the destruction of the...

Group, Other

1 memorial