Born Dublin, Ireland as Abraham Gottheimer. The King of Italy conferred the title of Baron Grant - for improvement schemes in Milan. He was also MP for Kidderminster. His financial dealings were never straight forwarded and he ended as a bankrupt.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Albert Grant
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Albert Grant & Shakespeare
"There is no darkness but ignorance" is a quote from "Twelfth Night". The scu...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
James Leathart
Born Alston, Cumberland. Lead manufacturer and art collector. He worked for the company of Locke, Blackett & Co. In Newcastle for most of his career, eventually becoming sole managing partner. ...
1 memorial
Bronze Age Ltd
Casting foundry based at the Limehouse Basin. It provides a service to artists who wish to cast their original sculptures in bronze or aluminium. Owned and run by Mark Kennedy.
5 memorials
Atlas Dyeworks
The Simpson, etc. plaque commemorates the Dyeworks which were at Victory Place 1859 - 68. This page refers to that site but also refers to the Hackney Dyeworks to which Atlas expanded. The photo sh...
2 memorials
Sir William Siemens
Born Germany. Electrical engineer, inventor and businessman. Came to England in 1843 with an electro-plating invention. Became naturalised British subject in 1859. Also worked with the regenerativ...
1 memorial
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Henry Edmunds
Owner of the Cholderton Estate. He is the great-grandson of Henry Charles Stephens, who founded the estate in order to develop his multiple interests in arable agriculture, aboriculture, architectu...
1 memorial
John Shaw, Jnr.
Born 25 Great James Street, Holborn. Father who was also an architect designed St Dunstans in the West. Junior also worked on St Dunstans but the building next door, number 187, is Junior's own. He...
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Frank Meisler
Architect and sculptor. Born Danzig. Arrived in England via the Kindertransport. Active in 2006. Art Forum obit. Born in what was then Danzig and is now Gdansk, Poland. Meisler was himself one of t...
Person, Architecture, Sculpture, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Poland
1 memorial
William Evans
Businessman and Sheriff of London and Middlesex, 1839-40. The image of Evans has a small drawing at the bottom captioned: "Interior of the room in which Mr Sheriff Evans was confined". This set u...
1 memorial
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