Artist and secretary of the Friends of Lordship Recreation Ground.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Joan Curtis
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Downhills air raid shelter WW2
The sculpture, inspired by a Pablo Picasso painting, was designed by Curtis a...
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Charles Eamer Kempe
Stained glass artist. Thee is a memorial to Charles Eamer Kempe in the South Transept of Chichester Cathedral.
1 memorial
Peggy Fortnum
Illustrator. Born in Harrow, Margaret Fortnum has illustrated about 80 children's books, most famously the Paddington series from the beginning to 1974. Andrew Behan has researched Fortnum: Margar...
2 memorials
Charles Ricketts
Charles de Sousy Ricketts. Artist, illustrator, author. Half French he was born in Geneva and brought up in Switzerland, London, France. He met his life partner, Charles Shannon, on his 16th birthd...
1 memorial
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent came to London in June 1873 aged 20 as an art dealer, in the firm Goupil. He was in England for two and a half years during which he had two short periods working in the Paris branch. Goupi...
2 memorials
Sir William Blake Richmond
Born 10 York Street. Painter. He entered the Royal Academy in 1858, winning two silver medals. His reputation rests on his portraiture of many prominent people. His painting of the Princess of Wal...
1 memorial
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King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway
Born in Stockholm to the crown prince of Sweden and Norway. Became king Oscar II of Sweden and Norway on the death of his brother on 18 September 1872. The union between the two countries failed in...
1 memorial
Tachbrook - Cowper
SW1, Bessborough Street
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
1 subject commemorated
Councillor David Avery
David James Avery was born on 2 December 1933, the third of the five children of Frederick Joseph Avery (1897-1988) and Ethel Maud Avery née Lambert (1901-1984) whose birth was registered in the St...
2 memorials
Sir William Empson
Poet and critic. Born near Goole, Yorkshire. Considered a great English critic, his best-known work is his first publication "Seven Types of Ambiguity" 1930. Married Hetta in 1941 and had two sons,...
2 memorials
King Ethelred II, the Unready
Also 'Aethelred'. King of England 978–1013 and 1014–16. Father of Edward the Confessor and Countess Goda. Died London.
1 memorial
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