Architect. He designed the Egyptian Avenue and the Terrace Catacombs in Highgate Cemetery.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Stephen Geary
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King's Cross statue of George IV
Our image (1835 by George Sidney Shepherd) comes from View from the Mirror wh...
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Charles Heathcote
Architect. Designed many buildings in Manchester- see the Picture source website. Andrew Behan found the photo and has researched this man: Charles Henry Heathcote's birth was registered in the 2n...
William Henry Boney
Architect. Also designed the Jackson's Lane Methodist church, Highgate and Little Stanmore Church. Active 1889 and 1905. Since we first published this article we have, in November 2024, been con...
Josiah Gunton
Architect. specialist in non-conformist churches. Born in Cambridgeshire. By 1881 he was living in Hackney. He was articled to Gordon and Lowther architects and became a partner in 1885. His son W...
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Robert Raikes
Promoter of the Sunday School movement. Born and died Gloucester.
African and Caribbean Armed Forces
After the outbreak of WWI, black recruits could be found in all branches of the British armed forces. They volunteered at recruitment centres, and were joined by West Indians, travelling at their o...
Sir William Wallace
Scottish knight and national hero. Born Renfrewshire. Convicted of treason Wallace was executed at Smithfield. He was hanged, drawn and quartered - a very gruesome death reserved for traitors. Mel ...
All Hallows Staining
"Staining" indicates stone-built, as opposed to all the other All Hallows churches in the City which were of wood. All that is left is the tower of the second church on the site, built about 1320. ...
Grinling Gibbons
Born Rotterdam. Wood carver and sculptor. Other works in London: a marble font in St James's Piccadilly, carvings in Whitehall Palace. Lived and died in Bow Street. See Discovering London for some ...
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