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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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...
Brown Dog statue - original - lost
The structure is a reasonably standard late Victorian drinking fountain, in g...
Sarah Parker Remond
Sarah Parker Remond, 1826 - 1894, African American abolitionist, lecturer, su...
Zachary Macaulay - WC1
Zachary Macaulay FRS, 1768 - 1838, anti-slavery activist, statistician, one o...
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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...
Gregory Foster
By resolution of the University College Committee of the Sixth of June 1933 t...
UCL quad - creation
This quadrangle of University College London, of which the first stone was la...
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Lady Jean Medawar
Wife of Sir Peter Medawar, the man in our picture, and thus known as Lady Medawar. Worked passionately in the promotion of family planning, especially for young girls. Chair of the Family Plannin...
1 memorial
Margaret McMillan
Socialist propogandist and educationalist. Born at Throgg's Neck, Westchester county, New York. Both her parents were from Scotland, and the family returned there when her father died. She attended...
1 memorial
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Dean Colet
John Colet was the only surviving child of the 22 that his mother bore. Founded St Paul's School in 1509. Churchman and educational pioneer. Born London, son of a Lord Mayor whose wealth he inherit...
2 memorials
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William Shakespeare
Born and died in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birth date is usually given as the 23rd, the same date as his death, but all that is actually known is that he was baptised 3 days later, on the 26th. Even...
46 memorials
Blackheath Literary Institution
It was built by public subscription, but was very small as an auditorium and failed within 20 years. By 1858 the building had become a newpspaper reading room and lecture hall. It was damaged by a ...
1 memorial
House of Commons
The palace of Westminster has been the home of Parliament since a meeting there in 1295. It split into two "houses" in 1341 but, having been built as a royal residence, the palace had no suitable m...
4 memorials
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