Architect. Born 9 Portland Place, now Bartholomew Street, SE1. His partnership with Harold Peto was extremely successful. They designed many of the houses in Harrington and Collingham Gardens including 39 Harrington Gardens for W. S. Gilbert. Other London work: The Royal Exchange Buildings on Cornhill, Royal Academy of Music in Marylebone Road, Southwark Bridge. Died at home, 71 Palace Court, Bayswater.
2023: Spitalfields Life has a whole post about George's London etchings.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Ernest George
Sir Ernest George (1839 - 1922), architect, lived here. Southwark Council
Built by Sir Ernest George, Royal Academician, President Royal Institute of B...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Sir Ernest George
Henry Lofts erected this fountain without naming anyone he wished to commemor...
Thomas Griffin, fitters labourer, April 12, 1899, in a boiler explosion at a ...
{Beneath the 'bridge mark' of the Bridge House Estates and above the City of ...
Stonemason, architect and civil engineer. Born Eskdale, Dumfriesshire. Aged 12 left school to work for a local stonemason. Aged 25 rode on horseback to London. Built roads, bridges and canals. Telf...
Architect. Born Gloucester. War & Son provides the rest of this page: Charles Holloway James was born in Gloucestershire in 1893 and worked as a draughtsman for local architect, Walter Brian W...
One of the Secretaries to the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition 1851. Engineer and navel architect. Born at Parkhead, near Glasgow. Died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight
The mediaeval church dates from 1174. Rebuilt in 1437 and then destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. Rebuilt by Christopher Wren 1680.
These plaques were generously photographed for us, at great risk of life and limb, by Matt Brown of Londonist on a privileged visit to th...
Architect and artist. Born Lambeth. Founding member of RIBA. Travelled extensively and illustrated topographical publications. Waymarking has the text of a 1997 paper by Leslie du Cane which sa...
Interesting that a plaque has been erected to the Mortlake Tapestry Works but not to John Dee, who was (what we would now call) scientifi...
The Gamages/Benetfink plaque was brought to our attention by this post at A London Inheritance. In our photo you can see a path leading ...
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