Person    | Male  Born 13/6/1839  Died 8/12/1922

Sir Ernest George

Categories: Architecture

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. 

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Sir Ernest George

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Sir Ernest George - SE1

Sir Ernest George (1839 - 1922), architect, lived here. Southwark Council 

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Sir Ernest George - SW1

Built by Sir Ernest George, Royal Academician, President Royal Institute of B...

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Henry Lofts

Henry Lofts erected this fountain without naming anyone he wished to commemor...

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PP - 3A - Griffin

Thomas Griffin, fitters labourer, April 12, 1899, in a boiler explosion at a ...

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Southwark Bridge opened

{Beneath the 'bridge mark' of the Bridge House Estates and above the City of ...

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Frederick Manable

Frederick Manable

In the 1860s, as the Superintending Architect to the Metropolitan Board of Works he designed Finsbury Park with the MBW's landscape designer Alexander McKenzie. Parks and Gardens has "..there are ...

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
Sam Dawkins and Donna Walker

Sam Dawkins and Donna Walker

Active in 2006, Sam Dawkins, from Warwickshire and Donna Walker, from Windsor, both architectural students from the University of Edinburgh.

Group, Architecture

1 memorial
Thomas Yorke

Thomas Yorke

Architect based in Highgate in 1926.

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
John Penfold

John Penfold

Surveyor and architect. Born John Wornham Penfold in Haslemere, Surrey. He was a founding member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and is best known for designing the British hexagona...

Person, Architecture, Craft / Design

2 memorials
Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace

Originally erected in Hyde Park to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was on the section south of Rotten Row and east of West Carriage Drive with the mid-point opposite Rutland Gate.  The cast-...

Building, Architecture, Commerce, Museums / Libraries, Music / songs, TV & Radio

4 memorials

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George du Maurier - WC1

George du Maurier - WC1

WC1, Great Russell Street, 91

London County Council George du Maurier, 1834 - 1896, artist and writer lived here, 1863 - 1868.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
A3 - Michelangelo

A3 - Michelangelo

W2, Westbourne Grove, 26, HBA

The Bayswater Athenaeum was built in 1863 by architect Arthur Billing of Newman and Billing. The name was originally inscribed in the pan...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
DLR extension to Lewisham - Lewisham

DLR extension to Lewisham - Lewisham

SE13, Lewisham DLR Station

On a cluttered wall, the plaque is the lower one on the right.

1 subject commemorated, 3 creators
Cecil Beaton - SW7

Cecil Beaton - SW7

SW7, Pelham Place, 8

Unveiled before 5 November 2020.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
PP - 3C - Rogers

PP - 3C - Rogers

EC1, Edward Street

The Stella was a passenger ferry in service with the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) that was wrecked on 30 March 1899 off the Ca...

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators