This bust is a 20th-century replica after Louis-François Roubiliac, 1757.
NW1, Euston Road, The British Library
All the sculptures are inside the main building.
See Father Jellicoe for the Gilbert Bayes finials, some of which are/were on display in the BL.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Robert Cotton
Antiquarian and politician. Born Robert Bruce Cotton in Denton, Huntingdonshi...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Robert Cotton
Sculptor. Born Lyon. Made his reputation in 1749 with the tomb of the Duke of...
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Sir Robert Cotton
This inscription is opposite the entrance, below the Shakespeare statue.
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Michael Rysbrack, 18th century.
This bust is a 20th-century replica after Anne Seymour Damer, 1814.
The building is Grade II listed, a terrace of Bath stone buildings incorporating gateway to Dean's Yard. 1853-54 by Sir George Gilbert Sc...
Bloomsbury House was built in 1887 for the College of Preceptors. Designed by by F. Pinches it is Listed Grade 1. The College, now call...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
The Guardian reports: "the first stand-alone memorial to an Asian woman in the UK" and elsewhere we read that it is "one of the few anywh...
We can find no information about this bust.
The building projects over the pavement with an arched colonnade for pedestrians. On the keystone of each arch, at the ends and along the...
Born Dunedin, New Zealand. Pioneering plastic surgeon who worked for the Royal Air Force during World War II, treating badly burnt aircrew. Appointed C.B.E. in 1944. Knighted 1947. Helped found ...
This plaque is puzzling in a number of ways: Material? Date erected? Where erected? Why erected? It’s not a simple burial marker since th...
Westminster Councillor. Married to Hugh Garside. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly investigated this woman: Mair Eluned Rees was born on 30 August 1931 in Cardiff or Neath (depending on source...
Died when hit by a van at about 11am on a Summer Sunday. Cycling to Tooting Bec Lido she had just turned into Cavendish Road, between the junctions of Abbeville Road and Englewood Road, when she w...
