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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Lord Richard Haldane

Lord Richard Haldane

Politician and educationalist. Born Richard Burdon Haldane at 17 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. Entered parliament in 1879. As Secretary of State for War, he founded the Territorial Army and made the...

Person, Education, Politics & Administration, Scotland

1 memorial
Reverend William Armstrong Buck, M.A.

Reverend William Armstrong Buck, M.A.

STCG62 gives the history of S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia in Sri Lanka. W. A. Buck arrived in September 1896 to be the Warden. "The Rev. W. A. Buck was educated at Merchant Taylors’ and won a C...

Person, Education, Religion

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St Luke's Parochial Schools

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.

Building, Education

6 memorials
First Japanese students

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...

Group, Education, Japan

1 memorial