Building    From 1914 

King Edward the Seventh's Galleries

Categories: Museums / Libraries

Building

An extension to the British Museum by the architect Sir John James Burnett.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
King Edward the Seventh's Galleries

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Edward VII Galleries, British Museum

So, all the sevens then. Eric Gill designed and carved this memorial.

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Chauncy Hare Townshend

Chauncy Hare Townshend

Collector, dilettante, ordained clergyman, mesmerist, and hypochondriac (list from Wikipedia). Born Godalming into a wealthy family. Famous for his 1821 meeting with the poet John Clare (whom he i...

Person, Museums / Libraries, Philanthropy

1 memorial
Sir John Summerson

Sir John Summerson

Museum curator and architectural historian. Born John Newenham Summerson at Barnstead, Coniscliffe Road, Darlington. He taught at Edinburgh College of Art, and had professorships at Oxford and Camb...

Person, Architecture, Museums / Libraries

1 memorial
Andrew Gifford, DD

Andrew Gifford, DD

Non-conformist minister and numismatist. Born Bristol. Became Baptist minister at Little Wild Street (see Samuel Stennett) in 1730 but in 1735 he had to leave when accused by a member of the congre...

Person, Museums / Libraries, Religion

1 memorial
F. W. Clifford

F. W. Clifford

District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1920-1942. Officer in the Order of St John. Nature, No. 3806, 10 October 1942 carries Clifford's obituary. At the time of his sud...

Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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G. Pasken

G. Pasken

Name on one of the main panels of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Aubrey House

Aubrey House

Built in 1698 by a group of doctors and apothecaries as a spa. It was originally called 'The Villa', became Notting Hill House in 1795 and was renamed as Aubrey House in the 1850s. It is now a grad...

Building, Property

1 memorial
Ada Jane King

Ada Jane King

Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 23. Buried in grave 2 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial