It was originally founded in 1760 and acquired its present name in 1907. Notable alumni include the architects Nicholas Grimshaw and Basil Spence and the playwright John Arden. (D.A. Edin stands for Diploma of Associate, Edinburgh College of Art).
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Edinburgh College of Art
Artist active in 2020 with a number of long-running projects, and involved in a number of campaigns. She is a long-time campaigner against the death penalty and communicated with Herman Wallace for...
Artist and engraver of Indian scenes. Orphaned early, he was adopted by his uncle, Thomas Daniell, a landscape painter, and taken as his assistant to Indian, returning to London in 1794. Died at ho...
Unveiled in its original location, at Stanhope Gate by the Dorchester Hotel, by the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII to be), French and Conna...
Trained as a minister but worked as a tutor. Â Elected Fellow of the Royal Society through his friendship with Isaac Newton. Unmarried. Died in Coleman Street. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
Admiral and hydrographer (map making for sailors). Developed the Beaufort Scale (for winds) in 1805. Born Co. Meath, Ireland. He kept journals, written in code, and these reveal that, as a widower ...
Born into the landed gentry. Began his career with the Bank of England in 1921. Knighted in 1955 for services to banking. Lord Mayor of London 1959-60.
Anat Rosenberg was born on 22 July 1965 in Hadera, Israel and came to London in 1990. She was an administrator for the charity NCH Action for Children (now called Action for Children) and lived in ...
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