Born London as Edward Alfred Briscoe Drury. More of his work can be seen on the Old War Office in Whitehall. Ornamental Passions has a good page on it.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Alfred Drury
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Burlington House courtyard - Joshua Reynolds
{On the pedestal, at the front:} Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723 - 1792 First Pre...
London Troops memorial plaque - Fulham
We recognised this as a flat version of the monument at the Royal Exchange an...
London Troops War Memorial
Designed by Aston Webb with figures by Alfred Drury. The Duke of York who un...
Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society - Alexander McLeod statue
{On the clock tower façade, all in glazed terracotta: Below the windows:} Ce...
Other Subjects
Alan Collins
Sculptor. Born Surrey as Alan Rodney Collins. Trained in England and became associated with the Seventh Day Adventists. Provided a lot of sculpture for Guildford Cathedral. Joined the Seventh-day ...
José Simões de Almeida
Sculptor. Born at Figueiró dos Vinhos, Portugal. Known as 'Nephew' to distinguish him from his uncle who had the same name and was also a sculptor. He trained at the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon. ...
Earnest George Gillick
Also responsible for, among others, the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, the Cenotaph in central Glasgow, figures on Marble Arch.
Denys Mitchell
Sculptor. Buy Design reports that Mitchell died in August 2015.
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Blackheath Proprietary School
Established to give its pupils an education similar to that of the public schools. It was so called as it was owned by a group of a hundred share holding proprietors who could send or nominate a pu...
World War 2
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
Barry Evans
Actor. Born Barry Joseph Evans in Guildford, Surrey. He was abandoned as a baby, and brought up at the orphanage boarding schools run by the Shaftesbury Homes. His acting break was as the lead char...
Charles Lamb
Born at 2 Crown Office Row, Inner Temple. Studied at Christ's Hospital where he became friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Elia" is the pseudonym Lamb used for a series of essays he wrote for th...
Cecil Rhodes
Mining magnate and politician in southern Africa. Prime Minister of the Cape Colony 1890-96. As a businessman he founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which ...
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