Statue

6 Burlington Gardens - Leibnitz

Erection date: 1869

Inscription

Leibnitz

Site: 6 Burlington Gardens (22 memorials)

W1, Burlington Gardens, 6

There are 22 statues on the façade of this building. Each is labelled with his (always 'his') surname. There are 12 at the top up against the sky (which don't photograph very well), listed left to right: Galileo, Goethe, La Place, Galen, Cicero, Aristotle, Plato, Archimedes, Justinian, Hunter, Hume, Davy. There are 10 lower on the building: Leibnitz, Cuvier, Linnaeus, Newton, Bentham, Milton, Harvey, Adam Smith, Locke, Bacon. Newton, Bentham, Milton, Harvey represent: Science, Law, Arts and Medicine. The others are in groups representing: ancient culture, illustrious foreigners, and English worthies. British History reveals who is which.  Shakespeare isn't missing - he was given pride of place on the internal staircase.

The building was constructed in 1866-9, as headquarters for the University of London (now in Senate House). For some years it was the Museum of Mankind, an outpost of the British Museum, but was recently acquired by the Royal Academy of Arts. This grand building, by Sir James Pennethorne, goes by the modest name of "6, Burlington Gardens".

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
6 Burlington Gardens - Leibnitz

Subjects commemorated i

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
6 Burlington Gardens - Leibnitz

Created by i

Patrick MacDowell

R.A., sculptor. Born Belfast. Works include: "The reading girl" and the group...

Read More

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
6 Burlington Gardens - Leibnitz

Also at this site i

Nearby Memorials

St Saviour's war memorial

St Saviour's war memorial

SE1, Borough High Street, 32 - 34, a pub (name keeps changing)

The bronze statue on the plinth is of an infantryman tramping through mud. The front of the plinth shows a soldier in classical costume a...

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Street Cat Bob

Street Cat Bob

N1, Islington Green

In 2007, as a homeless person living in supported housing, James Bowen was befriended by ginger cat Bob, who needed Bowen's help. Bowen w...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
General Gordon on a camel

General Gordon on a camel

WC2, St Martin's Place

To commemorate Gordon, the Corps of Royal Engineers, Gordon's own Corps, commissioned a statue from Edward Onslow Ford. The original spec...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Imperial Hotel - statue 10

Imperial Hotel - statue 10

WC1, Russell Square

On this site there used to be a sister hotel to Hotel Russell, also designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll and erected in 1898. It was demolish...

1 creator
Havelock statue

Havelock statue

WC2, Trafalgar Square

This was the first statue ever to be made from a photograph. There is a copy at Mowbray Park, Sunderland.

War dead | Other war
16 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

Previously viewed

Sir Joseph Rotblat

Sir Joseph Rotblat

Born Warsaw. gained a doctorate in physics in 1939 and then came to the UK but could not get his wife out and she died in a concentration camp. In 1944 he joined the Manhatten Project to develop nu...

Person, Peace, Politics & Administration, Poland

1 memorial
Red Barn Public House

Red Barn Public House

Located in Barnehurst, Kent. It was home to the local band 'George Webb's Dixielanders', who led a revival of jazz in Britain.

Building, Food & Drink

1 memorial