1836 - W.S. Gilbert - 1911
Playwright & poet. His foe was folly & his weapon wit.
{at the feet of the ladies are:}
Tragedy
Comedy
{on the scroll with the shield beneath - the Latin text translates as "I would rather die than change". :}
Mallem mori quam mutare
{bottom left:}
Geo. Frampton 1914
WC2, Victoria Embankment
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
W.S. Gilbert monument
Playwright, lyricist & poet. Born 17 Southampton Street as William Schwen...
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W.S. Gilbert monument
Sculptor. Born at 91 Brook Street, Lambeth. Died at home at 91 Carlton Hill,...
There are so many issues with this memorial, it's difficult to know where to begin. We take the main part of the inscription to mean tha...
In the inscription "they gave their lives" is given as a quotation but its source is not obvious. When we visited, in addition to a few ...
There is a cross on the reverse of the monument.
This is a multi-part monument across two sites. The elements at this site (kiosks and piers) used to be further to the east, possibly w...
This memorial used to be in Puzzle Corner because we were too blind and ignorant to be able to read the letters at the centre of the cr...
Wikipedia questions the veracity of this plaque, while acknowledging that Ho was in London between 1913 and 1919, living in West Ealing a...
Founded at the Pankhurst family home in Manchester. The headquarters was relocated to 4 Clement's Inn in 1906. Moved to Lincoln’s Inn House in Kingsway in 1912 - 17. LSE History gives: "... the Wo...
The Freemasons commissioned this memorial to mark the 300th anniversary of The United Grand Lodge of England in 2017 and the centenary of...
Merged with the Heritage Foundation.
The Adam brothers built a very large development including a run of houses with a terrace that over-looked the river, which was much closer before the Embankment was built. It was this terrace that...
