Person    | Male  Born 10/9/1753  Died 20/1/1837

Sir John Soane, R.A. F.R.S.

Architect and collector. Born in Goring-on-Thames, son of a bricklayer. Architect of the Bank of England, the Dulwich Picture Gallery, St. John’s, Bethnal Green and his own tomb. He also rebuilt much of Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing, which he had bought in 1801 as a country home and as a place where he could teach architecture to his two sons. They turned out not to be interested or capable enough (they were also unsatisfactory just as sons) and he sold it in 1810. Died at home 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields.

We must have initially mistyped "Born in Goring" as "Bornin Goring" because when we revisited this page we discovered that, for 6 years, it had been auto-corrected to "boring Goring". We apologies to all Goring-on-Thames residents.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir John Soane, R.A. F.R.S.

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Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial

This elaborate piece of high Victoriana was designed by George Highton of Bri...

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Dulwich Picture Gallery

Dulwich Picture Gallery Dulwich Picture Gallery, England's very first public ...

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John Soane at Pitzhanger

{The slate edging on one side of the drive carries this inscription:} Famous ...

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Sir John Soane statue

Soane designed the Bank of England in 1793. It was rebuilt between the wars a...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Sir John Soane, R.A. F.R.S.

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Soane's Tomb

This beautiful and sombre monument incorporates Soane's favourite emblems of ...

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Brightwen Binyon

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Alfred Cross

Alfred Cross

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Charles Holden

Charles Holden

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Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital

WC2, Chandos Place

In the picture of the building the plaque can be seen behind the cyclist. This Ophthalmic Hospital and the next-door Charing Cross Hospit...

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Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria

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The fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Queen Victoria was celebrated on Monday 20 June 1887. In George Gissing's 1894 novel 'In the Year of Jubilee' characters discuss whether to participate...

Event, Royalty

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Foundling Hospital

Foundling Hospital

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Paul Mervyn Pascall

Paul Mervyn Pascall

N6, Church Road, All Saints Church

The last digit of the year is difficult to decipher, but we've plumped for 1918 being the year. The cross is planted in a heap of stones...

War dead | WW1
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (d.1915)

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (d.1915)

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