Person    | Male  Born 12/12/1838  Died 17/3/1933

William Cawthorne Unwin

Categories: Education, Engineering

Civil and mechanical engineer. Born Essex. 1900 he became the first London University professor of engineering. Died unmarried, at his home, 7 Palace Gate Mansions, 29 Palace Gate.

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William Cawthorne Unwin

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Skempton Building plaques

2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...

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Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker

Acting school director. She worked with Joan Littlewood in the Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, which inspired her to found the East 15 Acting School in Loughton, Essex.

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1 memorial
Enfield Grammar School

Enfield Grammar School

Boys secondary school. Alumni include: Lord Jenkins of Putney, jazz musician Terry Lightfoot and photographer Oliver Gregory Pike.

Place, Education

1 memorial
Thomas Huxley

Thomas Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley. Biologist and anthropologist. Born Ealing.  An early adherent to Darwin's theory of evolution, he was a strong supporter while also pointing out what he saw as flaws.  At the R...

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2 memorials
Seizo Machida

Seizo Machida

Became a student at UCL in 1865.

Person, Education, Japan

1 memorial
University College London (UCL)

University College London (UCL)

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 no...

Group, Education

8 memorials