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University College London (UCL)

Categories: Education

The first English university established since Oxford and Cambridge and the first not to discriminate on race, class or religion, and the first to accept women on equal terms. Jeremy Bentham was not its founder but was its spiritual father.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
University College London (UCL)

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Brown Dog statue

See our page for the original statue for a description of the Brown Dog affai...

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Brown Dog statue - original - lost

The structure is a reasonably standard late Victorian drinking fountain, in g...

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Sarah Parker Remond

Sarah Parker Remond, 1826 - 1894, African American abolitionist, lecturer, su...

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Zachary Macaulay - WC1

Zachary Macaulay FRS, 1768 - 1838, anti-slavery activist, statistician, one o...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
University College London (UCL)

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Bentham in Queen Anne's Gate

Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and reformer, 1748 - 1832, lived in a house on th...

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Gregory Foster

By resolution of the University College Committee of the Sixth of June 1933 t...

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UCL quad - creation

This quadrangle of University College London, of which the first stone was la...

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UCL - WW1

This inscription is placed here to perpetuate the memory of the members of th...

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Other Subjects

Manor House School

Manor House School

The school buildings are still there, on the North Side between Wix's Lane and Taybridge Road.  The building dates back to 1792 when it was Byrom House.  Sold in 1841, it became The Beeches.  1876 ...

Group, Education

1 memorial
Central Foundation Girls School

Central Foundation Girls School

Moved from Spital Square in 1975 to the building in Bow Road.  Spitalfields Life reports on a 2013 school reunion at the old building, which is now Galvin Restaurant - old photos and reminiscences.

Group, Children, Education

1 memorial
The Round School

The Round School

It was the principal elementary school in Wimbledon Village, run as a charity school for poor children. Amongst its trustees was William Wilberforce who lived locally. Lord Nelson also donated mone...

Building, Education

1 memorial
Takayuki Hori

Takayuki Hori

Became a student at UCL in 1865.

Person, Education, Japan

1 memorial
Eaton Hodgkinson

Eaton Hodgkinson

Professor of engineering. FRS.  Born Cheshire.  Studied the strength of columns of various materials and pioneered the application of mathematics to structural design.  Late in life his mental abil...

Person, Education, Engineering

1 memorial

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Italian Hopsital, Queen Square

Italian Hopsital, Queen Square

The Ospedale Italiano was founded by John Ortelli, to overcome the language problems encountered in other London hospitals. The hospital started in two houses he donated in Queen Square. These were...

Group, Medicine, Italy

1 memorial
G. J. Grace

G. J. Grace

Churchwarden of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey in 1883.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Auxiliary Firewoman Violet Irene Pengelly

Auxiliary Firewoman Violet Irene Pengelly

Firewoman with the Auxiliary Fire Service. Killed during an air-raid at Cubitt Town School which was being used as an emergency depot. She was aged 19. Violet Irene Pengelly was born on 4 January ...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
2 memorials