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.
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...
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...
Other Subjects
Janet Johnson
Welfare worker. All we can find out about her is contained in her plaque in Redcross Street where she lived. She was the manager of the Central London School for Orphans and Destitute Children at H...
First Japanese students
In 1863 five noblemen of the Choshu clan left Japan to study at UCL. No one from Japan had previously studied outside their own country and they had to keep their departure hidden from the governme...
The John Roan Foundation
Charity. John Roan who died in 1644, was Yeoman of Harriers to King Charles I. He bequeathed his estate to educate the town-born children of Greenwich. It owns several properties in Greenwich, the ...
St Luke's Parochial Schools
St Luke's Old Street Conservation Plan (a pdf) refers to "History of St Luke's School" by M. Routledge, 1989, a book or leaflet, we assume.
Manresa House
Originally called Bessborough House, it was built by William Ponsonby in the 1760s. It was sold to the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits) in 1861 and renamed Manresa House after the town in Spain where...
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North London Railway
Rail company. It had lines connecting the north of London to the East and West India Docks in the east of the city. The main east to west route is now part of London Overground's North London...
W. Drummond
Administrator of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862. Drummond is the only name on the Putney Pest House plaque given 'Esqr.' rather than 'Mr' or 'Dr'. It clearly is meant to indicate something b...
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