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
Sir Ernest George (1839 - 1922), architect, lived here. Southwark Council
Built by Sir Ernest George, Royal Academician, President Royal Institute of B...
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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 ...
Also designed the eastern façade of Buckingham Palace, the entrance façade to the V&A Museum, Admiralty Arch and the French Huguenot Church in Soho Square.
Born Bloomsbury. A treasured only child he had minimal education, never learning to spell. Indoctrinated by his father into the architecture of the Middle Ages, he became a religious fanatic who dr...
Architect and decipherer of Linear B script. While still at school he heard about the discovery of Knossos by Arthur Evans, and about the undeciphered Linear B script on the tablets. This mystery ...
Architect. Born Oxford. 1856 moved to London and joined the circles around the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. William Morris used him to design the Red House. Also designed Prinsep's house at 1 Ho...
