Architect, builder and patron of the arts.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Charles James Freake
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Sir C J Freake
Greater London Council Sir Charles James Freake, 1814 - 1884, builder and pa...
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1 memorial
John Johnson
Architect. Born Hoxton. Our information comes from the Victorian Web which names many buildings that Johnson worked on. This is not the other John Johnson architect (1807 – 1878) who designed Alex...
3 memorials
City of Ur
Ancient city of Mesopotamia (located mainly in modern-day Iraq). It dates from circa 3,800 B.C. The site is noted for its prominent ziggurat. It started to decline from around 550 BC and was no lon...
1 memorial
Robert Banks-Martin
Architect and East Ham Mayor, 1914-18. Born Norfolk. He visited troops from East Ham on the western front.
2 memorials
William George Hunt
Architect of the 1901 Shoreditch Town Hall Extension and of Campden Hill Mansions. Architect and surveyor of Bedford Gardens, Kensington in 1900 when he was working on houses in Addison Road. Will...
1 memorial
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Battle of St Vincent frieze
NW1, Euston Road, Triton Square
See "2018" below for the event that this relief depicts. Camden's Public Art List of Major Works in the Borough (warning: large file) sa...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
William Shipley
WC2, Henrietta Street, 25
This plaque commemorates the tercentenary of Shipley's birth and the site of RSA's first meeting place. Interesting that this is a Westmi...
3 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
The Surveyors Club was formed in 1792 but the modern group was formed in 1868 at a meeting in London's Westminster Palace Hotel. It received a royal charter on 26 August 1881. Its HQ has been at t...
1 memorial
Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial
NW1, Pancras Road, St Pancras Gardens
This elaborate piece of high Victoriana was designed by George Highton of Brixton in the decorative gothic style and is Grade II listed. ...
75 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Thomas Coutts
Banker. Born Edinburgh. With his brother, James, came to London and worked in a bank founded in 1692 by John Campbell. James married Campbell's grand-daughter and through her inherited the bank. Th...
2 memorials
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