Portrait painter, collector and President of the Royal Academy
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Thomas Lawrence
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Sir Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence. P.R.A. lived here. Born 1769. Died 1830. {Beneath thi...
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Putney School of Art
Founded by William Lancaster, Baron Pollock and Sir Arthur Jelf. For the first 11 years this was based in rooms over the parish offices in Putney High Street. Lancaster then funded the freehold s...
foundation of the Barbican Arts Centre
1971 - Construction work begins with an estimate of 6 years to completion. 1982 - Barbican opened by The Queen. Londonist have found a map that shows the Barbican overlaid on top of the old street...
Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE, FBA
Art historian. Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich was born in Vienna, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. He fled to Britain, after his first book 'A Little History of the World' was banned by the Nazi ...
Derek Jarman
Artist, film director, stage designer, writer, gardener, and queer activist. Born as Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman in Northwood. Had a studio at Butler's Wharf in the 1970s. Died of an AIDS-related...
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Euston War Memorial
NW1, Euston Road
This memorial forms the roundabout in the bus station in front of Euston Station.
John Le Mesurier
Actor. Born John Elton Halliley in Bedford. Adopting his mother's surname, he was a supporting actor in many films of the 1950s and 1960s, but was projected to national fame as Sergeant Wilson in t...
François Guizot
SW7, Pelham Crescent, 21
English Heritage François Guizot, 1787-1874, French politician and historian, lived here, 1848-1849.
P. L. Toms
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
AC Cobra
Designed in 1962 by AC Cars in collaboration with Carroll Shelby, this was generally acknowledged to be one of the fastest two-seater production sports cars in the world. It went on to achieve fam...