Born Coventry. Apprenticed to Eric Gill. Often worked in brick. Died Kenilworth. Obit. in the Independent.
2023: Ian Greig of the Alcester & District Local History Society drew our attention to an article about Ritchie.
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Hedley Hope-Nicholson
Barrister, literary critic and Charles I obsessive. He hyphenated his Nicholson with his wife's Hope. Andrew Behan researched this eccentric character, bur first a preamble from Andrew: "I couldn'...
2 memorials
1 memorial
1 memorial
William Behnes
Born London but brought up in Dublin. Very successful and prolific sculptor but he was a difficult man with "evil habits" (which seem to have been mainly liquid) and never achieved membership of t...
3 memorials
2 memorials
Previously viewed
V&A façade - Caxton
SW7, Cromwell Road
Excluding the allegories (such as Knowledge) there are 36 statues on the two public façades of the V&A Museum, on Exhibition Road and...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
George Grossmith, Snr
NW1, Dorset Square, 28
London County Council George Grossmith, 1847 - 1912, actor and author, lived here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Reginald Rowe
Wrote the forward to the 1942 biography of Octavia Hill by E. Moberly Bell. The Improved Tenements Association was set up in 1900. From The London Journal: "As a concession to the societies, and t...
1 memorial
Peter Sellers - Elstree and Borehamwood Station
WD6, Allum Lane, Station forecourt
The plaques are around the station forecourt, either on frames or laid into the pavement. The gold lettering on the marble effect on the ...
1 subject commemorated
Nicholas Barbon
Builder and economist, a key figure in the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire. Laid out Essex Street in 1675. Also redeveloped Red Lion Fields and the Temple. It seems he was an extrovert ro...
1 memorial
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