Person    | Male  Born 1887  Died 1972

Vernon Hill

Categories: Art, Sculpture

Vernon Hill

Sculptor and illustrator. Born Halifax, Yorkshire. Other work in London in St Columba's Church, Pont Street and Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Hanwell.

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Vernon Hill

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Runnymede Air Forces Memorial

The poem was apparently written soon after the memorial was completed.  Photo...

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Antoine Watteau

Antoine Watteau

Artist. Born Jean-Antoine Watteau in Valenciennes. In 1702, he moved to Paris and worked as a scene painter at the Opera. He is credited with inventing the genre of 'fêtes galantes', which shows sc...

Person, Art, France

1 memorial
Phil May

Phil May

Illustrator. Born Philip William May at 66 Wallace Street, New Wortley, Leeds. He worked at several jobs before moving to Australia as cartoonist on the 'Sydney Bulletin'. In 1888 he went to study ...

Person, Art, Australia, France, Italy

1 memorial
Maggie Hambling

Maggie Hambling

Artist and sculptor.  Born Suffolk.

Person, Art, Sculpture

2 memorials
Marcus Stone

Marcus Stone

Born Marcus Clayton Stone in London, the son of artist Frank Stone who was friends with Thackeray and Dickens. Trained by his father, he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy before he was eighteen. ...

Person, Art

1 memorial

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War memorial St Mary Magdelene - Paddington

War memorial St Mary Magdelene - Paddington

W2, Rowington Close

Most war memorials at churches make some reference to 'members of this parish who fell' or have a list of the dead, or those who served. ...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Booker Prize

Booker Prize

Literary award. Originally known as the Booker–McConnell Prize, after the company Booker, McConnell Ltd who first sponsored the event. When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker...

Media, Benefactor, Literature

1 memorial
World War 1

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

402 memorials
Terry Ainsworth

Terry Ainsworth

Terence John Richard Ainsworth was born on 3 December 1928, the elder son of James Richard Ainsworth and Florence Ada Ainsworth née Clark (1905-1986). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Viacheslav Bukhaev

Viacheslav Bukhaev

Architect.  Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Person, Architecture, Russia

2 memorials