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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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Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL)

Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL)

Trained linguists for covert work, mainly with Russian during the Cold War. The Army was based near Bodmin, the Navy at Coulsdon Camp (1952 - 4, at the Fox pub building), the RAF at Salisbury Villa...

Group, Armed Forces, Education, Russia

2 memorials
Naonobu Sameshima

Naonobu Sameshima

Became a student at UCL in 1865.

Person, Education, Japan

1 memorial
Guardian Angels Church & School

Guardian Angels Church & School

The church on the Mile End Road was opened in 1903, the school, shown in this picture, behind the church, in 1896. Both funded by the Howard Family of Norfolk.

Building, Education, Property, Religion

1 memorial
Joint Service Defence College

Joint Service Defence College

A training academy for British military personnel. It was established as the Combined Staff College in Latimer, Buckinghamshire. Renamed the National Defence College in 1971. Moved to Greenwich in ...

Place, Armed Forces, Education

2 memorials
Haggerston Road School

Haggerston Road School

We can find very little about this school, it's all just hints and pointers. AIM25's holdings for All Saints Church include some records about the parish school, presumably this one.  The earlies...

Building, Education

2 memorials

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Cannon Hall

Cannon Hall

A Queen Anne mansion. The name probably refers to the whole estate at the time, not just the house. About 1730, when the house was used as a court, a lock-up was built into the garden wall. Gerald ...

Building, Law

1 memorial
Mrs Dallas-Glyn

Mrs Dallas-Glyn

Born Edinburgh, Scotland as Isabella Gearns. Actress who adopted her mother’s maiden name of Glyn. In spite of her parents’ objections she went to Paris with her first husband Edward Wills to study...

Person, Theatre, Scotland

1 memorial