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...
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...
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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First Belgian School WW1
By June 1915, the population of Belgian refugees in Britain rose to 265,000. But we couldn't find anything on the web about the school in Cale Street.
1 memorial
University of Greenwich
Opened as the Woolwich Polytechnic; it became the Thames Polytechnic in 1970 and was granted university status in 1992.
1 memorial
Royal Hospital School
The hospital was founded by King William III and Queen Mary II, and the school started in 1712. It was was nicknamed the 'Cradle of the Navy' because of its tradition of training future sailors. Th...
2 memorials
Westminster School
Public school. Its full name is The Royal College of St Peter in Westminster. Pupils were taught here from at least the 12th century until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was re-founded by Q...
2 memorials
Rachel McMillan
Health visitor and educator. Born at Throggs Neck, Westchester county, New York. Both her parents were from Scotland, and the family returned there when her father died. She and her sister Margaret...
1 memorial
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Edward the Confessor
King of England. Son of Ethelred the Unready. Born between 1003 and 1005 at Islip, near Oxford. He is regarded as the last king of the house of Wessex. Little is known of his early life, except tha...
4 memorials
EMI
Music record label. Electric and Musical Industries Ltd was formed in London in March 1931 by the merger of the Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company. See there for EMI's beginnin...
2 memorials
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
D. F. Johnson
Chairman of HMV Shops Limited in 1984. If the web is anything to go by, unveiling the Nipper plaque is the only significant action Johnson ever took.
1 memorial
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