Person    | Female  Born 8/6/1895  Died 29/12/1991

Dora Gordine

Categories: Sculpture

Countries: Latvia

Born Latvia. First visited London in 1926. The Picture Source website provides a biography. Married Richard Hare and built, with him, Dorich House which is where she died and is now a museum.

For more information on this sculptor we suggest the book ‘Working Against the Grain: Women Sculptors in Britain c.1885-1950’ by Pauline Rose.

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Dora Gordine

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Sun Yat-Sen

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Thomas H. Wren

Thomas H. Wren

From Bonhams: Wren was apprenticed at the Compton pottery set up by Mary Watts. After her husband's death Wren was commissioned to produce the memorial relief for Postman's Park and also, after a d...

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1 memorial
Sam Burford

Sam Burford

British sculptor. 2007: MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design. 2018: Lives and works in London.

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
Rafael de la Cova

Rafael de la Cova

Sculptor.  Born Caracas.  Died Havana.

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1 memorial
William Wagstaff

William Wagstaff

William Wheatley Wagstaff. Sculptor, architectural sculptor, stone carver, sculpture business and foundry owner. Born Keighley, West Yorkshire. By 1910 he had moved to London. WW1 he was employed ...

Person, Sculpture

2 memorials

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World War 1

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

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Owen Owen

Owen Owen

Founder of a chain of department stores. Born Wales to a farming family. 1860 apprenticed to an uncle at a drapers shop in Bath. 1868 opened his own drapers in Liverpool. Very successful and by 18...

Person, Commerce, Wales

1 memorial
Hy. W. Riseley

Hy. W. Riseley

Resident of the West Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Eva Leale

Eva Leale

The daughter of the landlord of The Swan public house at Walton-on-Thames. The composer Jerome Kern stopped at the pub while on a Thames river trip and fell in love with her. They married in Walton...

Person, Friend / family, USA

1 memorial
Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth

Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth

One of Viscount Rothermere's three sons, of which the elder two died in WW1.

Person, Politics & Administration

War dead, WW1
2 memorials