Born near Liverpool, son of the Danish Consul. Became an architect in the Arts and Crafts style, specialising in churches. The splendid 1 Millbank was built for the Church Commissioners in 1903. Died at a house he had built in Cyprus, where he spent the winter months.
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William Douglas Caroe
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Harrow on the Hill war memorial
Names are inscribed on the vertical faces of the 4 steps leading up to the pl...
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2 memorials
Charles Walter Clark
Architect. Chief architect for the Metropolitan Railway Company, designing 25 London Underground stations. Also designed houses for Metro-land, which that railway opened up for housing. His Wikiped...
2 memorials
Sir Joseph Paxton
Architect responsible for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Born Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire. The Crystal Palace Company gave him, free of rent, Rockhills, a Regency house to the north of the Crystal Pala...
4 memorials
Merton Place
Country house, built about 1750 for Henry Pratt. Lord Nelson arrived here in 1801 after his separation from his wife Fanny. In his time the grounds were extensive, a quarter square mile. He used ...
2 memorials
Bridewell Palace / Prison
Built by Henry VIII, who lived there 1515-23. It deteriorated so that Edward VI gave it to the City of London who then used it as a prison, hospital (actually school) and workrooms. "Bridewell" was...
2 memorials