Chairman of Governors of the Burdett-Coutts and Townshend Foundation School in 1924 and still alive and laying plaques in 1953. Nephew to William Burdett-Coutts.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
S. Burdett-Coutts
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Burdett-Coutts School
These improvements were carried out with trust funds in memory of the late Ri...
Chauncy Hare Townshend Schools - war damage
This plaque is on the central cotagey-looking building which looks undamaged....
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John MacGregor, Esq.
One of the managers of the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital.
John Harris
Clerk to Vestry and District Board of Works, Westminster, 1882.
Rotherhithe Old Town Hall
Built in 1895 by the architects Murray and Foster. The caryatides can be seen in the image either side of the entrance at the right. In 1905 Rotherhithe merged with Bermondsey and St Olave and t...
Christopher Buckmaster
Councillor and Mayor of Kensington and Chelsea, 2003 - 2004.
Washington Irving
American writer who is best known for his short stories 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle'. Born 3 April 1783 in the USA, he travelled to Europe coming to England in 1815. He also ...
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Peake Knight, 1st traffic lights
SW1, Bridge Street, 12
City of Westminster John Peake Knight, 1828 - 86, inventor of the world's first traffic lights which were erected here, 9th Dec. 1868. ...
Old Limehouse
E14, Three Colt Street, Lime Kiln Wharf
The lettering in the frieze at the top of the metal gates read "Lime Kiln Wharf". The building to the right of our photo has an entrance ...
Virtues - Rest
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
A sign outside a public house. The NG's leaflet confidently says the pub is in Kent. We found a pub of this name in Wheddon Cross, Minehe...
Pete Broadbent
Bishop of Willesden from 2001. He caused controversy when Prince William and Catherine Middleton became engaged. He announced he was a republican, calling the couple 'shallow celebrities' and sayin...
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