Architect and antiquary, Born London. Educated at Westminster. Harrow Old Schools was his first building.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Charles Robert Cockerell
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Charles Cockerell
English Heritage C. R. Cockerell, 1788 - 1863, architect and antiquary, live...
Old Schools
The Old Schools This is the original building at Harrow, finished in 1615 an...
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Giles Dance
Architect/mason. Father of George Dance the Elder (1695 - 1768) and grandfather of George Dance the Younger. Member of the Merchant Taylors Company. The dates are approximate.
E. J. May
Born Edward John May. Estate Architect at Bedford Park 1880 - 1885. Died Chislehurst. From the Bedford Park panel: "E. J. May was the last pupil of Decimus Burton before joining Shaw’s practice as...
Henry Wilson (art)
Architect, jeweller and designer. A leading figure in the British Arts & Crafts movement. Born near Liverpool. Trained with and worked in John Sedding's practice. Taught at the Central School ...
Gerald Horsley
Architect. Son of John Callcott Horsley. His best known buildings are in a Baroque style. He designed St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, and a few stations for the North Western Railway such a...
John & Ruth Howard Charitable Trust
The Trust will consider giving grants for the preservation of buildings of historic or architectural interest anywhere in England (but not Wales), with a preference for the Greater London area (not...
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Navy Office, Seething Lane
Built on the site of Walsingham's mansion, this was the Navy Office in which Samuel Pepys lived and worked. Survived the Great Fire partly due to Pepys' efforts. Destroyed by another fire in 1673...
Sinking of the Marchioness
The pleasure boat The Marchioness collided with another vessel and sank with the loss of 51 lives. In nearby Southwark Cathedral there is a Marchioness memorial stone. The following comes from a B...
Suffragettes' Women's Hall
This 1893 map (extract here) shows a hall, Salisbury Hall, beside the pub (Morpeth Arms) set back behind a house on Old Ford Road. This 1870 map shows the hall labelled 'Bethal Chapel (Baptist)'. ...
Building, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Religion
Richard William Robertson
For 39 years the organist of All Saints Talbot Road, W11. Andrew Behan has researched Robertson: Richard William Robertson was born in Kensington in 1880, the eldest of the eleven children of Will...
Sir William Robert Pryke
Lord Mayor in 1925-6. Born Hoxton. Chairman of Pryke & Palmer Ltd, iron and hardware merchants. Member of the governing body of the Irish Society though we could find no immediate Irish heritag...
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