Sculptor and painter. Born Hackney. Other work in London: Heston war memorial.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Arthur George Walker
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Emmeline Pankhurst monument
Walker sculpted the statue, Baker designed the plinth. Unveiled by Baldwin. ...
Florence Nightingale - statue
{On front of plinth:} Florence Nightingale {On left side of plinth:} Born May...
Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake
There are actually 2 busts (identical we think): one facing into the square a...
St Anne's Church Limehouse - WW1 memorial
The quotation "Greater love ... his friends." is from the biblical book of Jo...
St Silas cross
Unusually this memorial was erected before the end of the war. There may be ...
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William Ford Robinson Stanley
Inventor, manufacturer and philanthropist. Born William Ford Robinson Stanley in Islington. He filed 78 patents for precision drawing, mathematical and surveying instruments, as well as telescopes....
Person, Architecture, Art, Engineering, Literature, Philanthropy
Anna Walker
Mural painter active in 1985. Married to Ray and helped complete the Dalston mural after Ray's death.
Richard Dadd
Painter. Born Chatham in Kent. Died in a lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, outside London of "an extensive disease of the lungs".
Arthur Morrison
Writer and novelist. Born at 14 John Street, Poplar. He wrote detective novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. His best known work was 'A Child of the Jago', set in a fic...
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PRS for Music
Previously known as the Performing Rights Society. They have also erected plaques to Squeeze, Jethro Tull and Blur.
Royal College of Physicians
Founded by Thomas Linacre in 1518 with a charter granted by Henry VIII. Their first home was Linacre's own house in Knightrider Street. Their second home, at Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, was des...
Dennis Gabor
Electronics engineer and humanist. Born as Dénes Gábor, in Budapest, Hungary. He worked in Germany for several years, but moved to England when Adolf Hitler came to power. he invented holography in...
King Henry VIII
Son of Henry VII. Born Born Greenwich Palace, as the spare, not the heir but his brother Arthur predeceased him and their father, aged 15, but not before marrying Catherine of Aragon, who later in ...
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