Sculptor. Born Edwin John Cumming Russell. He studied at the Brighton School of Art and the Royal Academy School. Other works in London include sundials at Tower Hill and at the Marine Society in Vauxhall. Father of sculptor Tanya Russell.
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Edwin Russell
This is made of fibreglass finished in cold cast bronze, and the scroll form ...
Born Aberdeen. Winner of the Prix de Rome. Other work in London includes the 1963 Joy of Life group in the Hyde Park fountain, pictured by Ornamental Passions.
Born Worcestershire. A ceramic artist he worked for Doultons of Lambeth. Bob Speel identifies other work in London: the grand pediment on Harrods, "a 1896 panel for the Reredos of St Ann's Church i...
Sculptor. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Charles Edward Whiffen was born in 1867 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the son of Edward Whiffen and Jane Whiffen née Adams. Hi...
Italian Sculptor. Born Catania, Sicily. Professor of Sculpture in Naples. Died Rome.
Writer. Born in Erith, Kent. During WW2 he served in Burma where he spent eighteen hours adrift in the Indian Ocean after his ship was torpedoed. After the war he joined the Daily Express and becam...
The Surveyors Club was formed in 1792 but the modern group was formed in 1868 at a meeting in London's Westminster Palace Hotel. It received a royal charter on 26 August 1881. Its HQ has been at t...
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