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...
Clock-maker. We had 1989 as his date of death but in July 2024 we received this contact from Chris: "Dan’s distant nephew (grandson of his sister Elizabeth) here. Just to correct that 1989 is when...
Court dressmaker. Designed the Queen's wedding dress and her bridesmaids'. Born 2, Streatham Hill. Died at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor.
A British-American occultist, artist, illustrator, writer and storyteller. Most famous for the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, first published 1910, she created the standard classic deck of the English-sp...
Person, Art, Craft / Design, Gender Issues, Literature, Paranormal, Jamaica, USA
Born Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, Germany, as Albert Francis Augustus Charles Emanuel. Married his first cousin, Victoria, in 1840. President of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Generally in...
The Tree Council was founded in 1974 to keep up the momentum of 1973's National Tree Planting Year - "Plant a Tree in '73". They ran the first National Tree Week in 1975 and in 2004 claimed that up...
Born, son of Elizabeth and John Dickens, at No.1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth (where there is a museum). For a map showing many of his London addresses see Londonist. His family were so p...
From their website: "The Equiano Society was founded by Arthur Torrington and Samuel B. King in London in November 1996. Its main objective is to publicise and celebrate the life and work of Olauda...
Actor, comedian and singer. Born in Hackney. He used his short stature and malleable features to create a popular comic persona. On stage he was often partnered by George Grossmith junior. See ther...
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