Erection date: 1930
{Inscribed on the red granite plinth:}
Lincoln by Andrew O'Connor
Presented to the Gresham Committee by the Lincoln Committee 1930
{Inscribed into the stone on the left side:}
Lincoln by O'Connor
EC3, Royal Exchange Buildings, Royal Exchange
Easily missed, this bust was brought to our attention by IanVisits. It's at the eastern entrance to the building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
President Lincoln bust
16th President of the USA. Born Kentucky. Assassinated while watching a very ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
President Lincoln bust
Gresham College (founded in 1597 under the will of Sir Thomas Gresham) is fin...
Active in 1930. Trying to research this we found a number of "Lincoln Commit...
Sculptor. Born USA, not to be confused with his father also a sculptor with ...
We again thank David Hopkins for the Latin transcription (from some tortuous Gothic lettering) and translation. We've searched but the r...
Built in 1892 by Charles Henman Jr. this heavily decorated complex of buildings makes up Croydon's Town Hall. The building and the rounde...
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
The roundels on the north, river-facing, frontage are occupied by, left to right: Anson, Drake, Cook, Howard, Blake, Benbow, Sandwich, Ro...
The unabbreviated text would read in Latin: "Victoria dei gratia Britanniarum Regina", which translates as: "Victoria, by the Grace of Go...
Built circa 1770. The house and the estate were bought by Henry Thornton in 1792. William Wilberforce, his good friend, lived here until Thornton's marriage. Both men were MPs and important members...
In May 2017 a small exhibition at City University displayed a copy of a photograph showing “Unveiling of the plaque to commemorate George...
This stadium was demolished in 2016 and we can't find out what happened to the plaques so we have marked them all as lost.
The plaque fails to give the year of the Second Congress - it was 1847.
All four of the Leicester Square busts were removed in the 2010-12 redesign, and we don't know where they went.
