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
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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,...
Unveiled by Princess Louise, and her husband the Duke of Argyll in 1904 in Kensington High Street, opposite St Mary Abbots Church, close ...
Designed by William Butterfield in 1865, this church is considered one of his best works.
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
The shield (showing the Port of London seal) above the text is surmounted by a galleon and supported on either side by gryphon-type creat...
Seamus Heaney unveiled the plaque and performed at a poetry reading later in Stratford Town Hall as part of the celebrations for the 150t...
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