Born as Mary Seton Fraser Tytler in India but brought up in Scotland. 1886 married G. F. Watts. Co-founded the Compton Potters' Arts Guild and the Arts & Crafts Guild in Compton, Surrey. There she also had built the Watts Mortuary Chapel in Compton (1895); and the Watts Gallery (1903–04).
She had been involved with the Postman's Park Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice from its inception but on her husband's death in 1904 she took over his role and installed another 37 memorials.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Mary Watts
This is a lovely plaque but the fireman's helmet on a plaque for a police con...
David Selves, aged 12, off Woolwich supported his drowning playfellow and san...
A railway signalman controlled the trains by operating the points and signals...
The surname was actually Jarman, and the woman that Mrs Jarman tried to save ...
Alexr. Stewart Brown of Brockley, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, th...
Architect, jeweller and designer. A leading figure in the British Arts & Crafts movement. Born near Liverpool. Trained with and worked in John Sedding's practice. Taught at the Central School ...
In 1985 working with the London Pottery (96 Kingston Road, London Pottery, SW19). And in 2022: MD at The London Pottery Co Ltd, MD at The London Design Studio Co Ltd, (now at the Kingston Road addr...
The 1869 map shows this area not yet developed. The 1893 map shows a number of buildings on the site, labelled "Technical Institute". A history of Delaware County, Pennsylvania has a reference to ...
Probably born Tenterden, Kent. Printer, in 1474, producing the first book printed in English "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye". Died Westminster.
The church gets its name from the pattens (clog-like shoes) made and sold in the lane beside the church. An early building was pulled down and reconstructed in 1538. After the Great Fire it was aga...
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The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Southwark, Camberwell and Bermondsey. Southwark council annually invites proposals for new plaques fro...
The Chairman of this organisation, Mr Homer, served in the Royal Army Service Corps 1958 - 60. He wants to get plaques in county towns and towns of military importance. There are currently {July ...
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