Person    | Male  Born 1856  Died 26/5/1924

F. W. Pomeroy

Categories: Sculpture

Born London. His London work includes the 1906 Lady Justice on the dome of the Old Bailey and from Speel we learn that Pomeroy also did four enormous figures on the upstream side of Vauxhall Bridge, and the Boer War Memorial inside Guildhall. Died Kent.

RBKC's paper gives: "A long time resident of Kensington, he lived initially at 15 Douro Place and then, from 1907 to his death in 1924, at 15 Kensington Square."

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F. W. Pomeroy

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Francis Bacon

Erected to mark the tercentenary of Bacon's election as Treasurer of the Inn ...

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Kensington War Memorial

The monument was designed by Hubert C. Corlette and the figure sculpted by Fr...

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Queen Victoria - Woolwich TH

This is a marble copy of the bronze statue in Chester. "R & I" was a suf...

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Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray, poet, was born in a house on this site. "The curfew tolls the kn...

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Fred (Fritz) Kormis

Fred (Fritz) Kormis

Sculptor and medallist. Born Frankfurt, Germany. From the very informative West Hampstead Life: "Fritz was fourteen when he began an apprenticeship in a workshop specializing in decorative sculptu...

Person, Sculpture, Germany

3 memorials
Basil Watson, OJ, CD

Basil Watson, OJ, CD

Jamaican, USA-based sculptor from a family of artists: Barrington Watson, Watson's father, was an esteemed artist in his own right, his three sons are also artists, and Basil Watson's son, Kai, is ...

Person, Sculpture, Jamaica, USA

1 memorial
Will Davies

Will Davies

Sculptor active 2009.

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
Hilda Seligman

Hilda Seligman

Author and sculptor. Born Hilda Mary McDowell. In the 1930s she entertained both Mahatma Gandhi and Haile Selassie at her home in Wimbledon, and sculpted the bust of Selassie which now stands in Ca...

Person, Benefactor, Literature, Sculpture, India

1 memorial

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Wandsworth Fire Station - wall plaque

Wandsworth Fire Station - wall plaque

SW18, West Hill

This memorial originally comprised the two low marble plaques with the display stand between and a rather nice little fountain behind. O...

Civilian war dead | WW2
11 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Harmondsworth Vicarage Hall

Harmondsworth Vicarage Hall

Demolished after 1972 which is the date of this photo. Forebears says: "the Vicarage Hall, built in the vicarage grounds for parochial purposes in 1885, at a cost of £500, by the Rev. J. C. Taylor...

Building, Community / Clubs, Religion

1 memorial
Bombs 7 July 2005

Bombs 7 July 2005

In the middle of the morning rush hour four bombs went off on three tube trains, at 8.50am and a bus, at 9.47am. 52 people died. Plaques commemorating the victims have been placed at each of the b...

Event, Seriously Famous, Terrorism, Tragedy

12 memorials
Dame Sybil Thorndike

Dame Sybil Thorndike

Born Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. Actor. George Bernard Shaw wrote his play Saint Joan with her in mind. Created Dame of the British Empire in 1931. She was married to the actor Sir Lewis Casson. Di...

Person, Cinema, Theatre

3 memorials