This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Martin Jennings
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George Orwell statue
At 6' 2" Orwell was a tall man, but this statue is 2.5 metres (over 8'). He s...
John Betjeman statue
Bronze. Unveiled by Betjeman's daughter Candida Lycett-Green and Poet Laureat...
Mary Seacole statue
The statue is lit at night and the shadow of the figure on the bronze disk ph...
Plumber's Apprentice statue
This 7 foot statue was unveiled to mark the completion of the Cannon Street S...
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Eduardo Paolozzi
Sculptor and printmaker. Born in Edinburgh of Italian parents. His father (and we think his maternal grandfather) died on the Arandora Star. A major figure in the development of the pop-art style. ...
Ralph Beyer
From Birkbeck : "Sculptor, Ralph Beyer, who died in 2008 aged 86, fled from Nazi Germany arriving in England with his family in 1937 when he was 16 years old. His mother later returned to Germany ...
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Cheyne House
The house and garden can be seen on a number of old maps, such as 1865 OS. From British History online (written in 1913): "Cheyne House consists of two or three different blocks of buildings, none...
Christ’s Hospital School - sculpture - back
EC1, Newgate Street
"On Quitting School" (sometimes "On Leaving School") is a sonnet by Coleridge, aged 18, dedicated to saying goodbye to Christ's Hospital ...
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Archibald William Cockburn
Archibald William Cockburn of Cockpen (of Scottish heritage), QC and judge. Treasurer of the Temple Church in 1969. Married Jacqueline in May 1933 at St George's Hanover Square. They had no children.
17 Bruton Street
The London home of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore from 1920. The house from which their daughter married the Duke of York (the future King George VI) and the house to which the couple moved ju...
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