Person    | Male  Born 1/9/1857  Died 25/2/1938

William Douglas Caroe

Categories: Architecture

Countries: Cyprus, Denmark

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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Inigo Jones

Inigo Jones

Architect and stage designer. Born near Smithfield. Never married. He studied architecture in Italy and brought the new Palladian designs to Britain. Became Surveyor of the King's Works, the king's...

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St Martin within Ludgate

St Martin within Ludgate

The mediaeval church dates from 1174. Rebuilt in 1437 and then destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. Rebuilt by Christopher Wren 1680.

Place, Architecture, Religion

1 memorial
John Elger

John Elger

Architect, master builder and speculative developer. Active in London and Bedford.  From British History: "... a Bedford carpenter's son who had made his name in the 1820s and '30s as a speculative...

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1 memorial
Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Born 70 Parson Street, Glasgow. Architect, designer and watercolourist. He was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and the main exponent of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. Married Margare...

Person, Architecture, Art, Seriously Famous, Scotland

1 memorial

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Hilary Weston

Hilary Weston

Born and raised in Dublin as Hilary Mary Frayne. Married Galen Weston in 1966. They moved to Toronto in 1974, and HW became a Canadian citizen. Lieutenant Governor of Ontario  1997 - 2002.

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration, Canada, Ireland

1 memorial
Lilis Puspita

Lilis Puspita

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial