Erection date: 23/10/1953
{Inscribed on stone plinth:}
Livingstone
In Kensington Gore façade, on right of picture. The unveiling ceremony is detailed here (thanks to Jamie Davis for the link).
SW7, Kensington Gore, Royal Geographic Society
Ornamental Passions's post had good photos of the statues. Apparently cabbies call this "hot and cold corner" (think about it). The room behind is the lecture hall.
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Explorer, missionary, writer and medic. Born at Blantyre, just south of Glasg...
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Born Aberdeen. Winner of the Prix de Rome. Other work in London includes the ...
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Unveiled by Andrew Motion, author of a Keats biography. The quotation comes from Keats’ epic poem "Fall of Hyperion. A Dream", 1819.
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...
This B&W photo is from London Picture Archive where it is captioned: "Trinity Almshouses, statue of Captain Richard Maples, removed f...
We found the following at Discovering Dickens "An 18th-century account of it, from Harrison’s New and Universal History, Description and...
This statue used to be in the Constitutional Club (disbanded 1979) at 28 Northumberland Avenue.
Resident of Durga Chowk. From 69 Gurkha Field Squadron, 36 Royal Engineers, killed while trying to clear mines and booby traps from a school in Negrovce, 20 miles west of Pristina, Kosovo. Two civ...
Born Flintshire, Wales. Came to London in 1807 to train as a lawyer at the Temple. Called to the bar in 1811. But he was unsuccessful in this profession and turned to writing about Welsh history...
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