The first English university established since Oxford and Cambridge and the first not to discriminate on race, class or religion, and the first to accept women on equal terms. Jeremy Bentham was not its founder but was its spiritual father.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
University College London (UCL)
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Brown Dog statue
See our page for the original statue for a description of the Brown Dog affai...
Brown Dog statue - original - lost
The structure is a reasonably standard late Victorian drinking fountain, in g...
Sarah Parker Remond
Sarah Parker Remond, 1826 - 1894, African American abolitionist, lecturer, su...
Zachary Macaulay - WC1
Zachary Macaulay FRS, 1768 - 1838, anti-slavery activist, statistician, one o...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
University College London (UCL)
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Bentham in Queen Anne's Gate
Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and reformer, 1748 - 1832, lived in a house on th...
Gregory Foster
By resolution of the University College Committee of the Sixth of June 1933 t...
UCL quad - creation
This quadrangle of University College London, of which the first stone was la...
Other Subjects
Royal Mathematical School
Initiated by Sir Robert Clayton who had read about the French schools of navigation. He persuaded King Charles II to support the UK equivalent as part of Christ's Hospital. "Samuel Pepys in the Adm...
1 memorial
Eton Boating Song
Written by William Johnson Cory. First performed in 1863, the first verse goes:. . . . Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees,...
1 memorial
George Green School
Founded by shipbuilder George Green as an infants' school, at the corner of Chrisp Street and East India Dock Road. Further premises were used in Prestons Road. The school outgrew those premises (n...
3 memorials
Anne Winifrede O'Reilly
Schoolteacher. Headteacher at Peckham Emergency Central School, 1940 - 46, and the first head at Walworth's first comprehensive school, 1947 - 55, when she retired. Founding member of the All En...
1 memorial
Trinity School of John Whitgift
Part of the Whitgift Foundation, founded by John Whitgift. Formerly known as the Whitgift Middle School, it was renamed in 1954, reflecting the school's increasing equality with Whitgift School. It...
1 memorial
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