Sculptor. Born Glasgow. Good friend and associate of Rodin. Also by Tweed is the Wellington Monument in St. Paul’s Cathedral. Died in a nursing home at 18 Langham Street.
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John Tweed
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John Tweed SW10
The plaque gives his birth year as 1863, when, according to the Oxford Dictio...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
John Tweed
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Kitchener statue
{On the front of the plinth:} Kitchener, 1850 - 1916 {On the front of the lo...
Rifle Brigade
There are 3 statues on this memorial: to the left - a rifleman of 1806; to th...
Sir George White
{On both sides of the plinth:} Field-Marshal Sir George Stuart White, V.C., ...
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Meridian Bronze
We're not certain we have found the right foundry. Its name seems right but it's Australian which seems wrong. From their website: "Established in 1973 by Peter Morley, Meridian Sculpture was the ...
Auguste Rodin
Sculptor. Born Paris. His works include: the Thinker, the Kiss. Regularly visited England from 1900 on and in 1914 he donated some significant pieces of his work to Britain. Died at home, Paris.
Frank Lynn Jenkins
Born Torquay, Devon. Other work in London: 'Abundance' on Thames House, Queen Street Place and the monument for Thomas Joseph Tate in the St. Marylebone Cemetery, East End Road, N3. Moved to Americ...
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Bethnal Green WW2 disaster
The worst civilian disaster of WW2. 173 men, women and children lost their lives as they went down into Bethnal Green underground air raid shelter in response to a siren. They died not from a bomb ...
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea. It was originally planned to call it just Kensington, but Chelsea was added after local prot...
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This person's grave was destroyed by a WW2 bomb. The name is on the north-east face of the pedestal.
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