Born in York. Neo-classical sculptor.
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John Flaxman
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Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial
This elaborate piece of high Victoriana was designed by George Highton of Bri...
John Flaxman
John, sculptor, lived and died here, B. 1755, D. 1826, Flaxman. {In the borde...
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William Behnes
Born London but brought up in Dublin. Very successful and prolific sculptor but he was a difficult man with "evil habits" (which seem to have been mainly liquid) and never achieved membership of t...
3 memorials
Walter Ritchie
Born Coventry. Apprenticed to Eric Gill. Often worked in brick. Died Kenilworth. Obit. in the Independent. 2023: Ian Greig of the Alcester & District Local History Society drew our attention t...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Frederick E. E. Schenck
Born Edinburgh to a German immigrant lithographer. Via Stoke on Trent he moved to London in 1888. Often worked with the architect Henry Hare. Speel provides a lot of information including that Sche...
4 memorials
1 memorial
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9 memorials
George Orwell
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a British colonial civil servant. Joined the Indian imperial police in Burma but left in 1927 and decided to become a writer. ...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Seriously Famous, TV & Radio, Bengal, Burma, France, India, Spain
12 memorials
Earl Beatty
Admiral. Born Nantwich. The youngest non-royal to become Rear Admiral since Nelson. Fought in WWI but more importantly, fearing defeat, kept the British Navy out of major sea battles and thus maint...
4 memorials
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...
376 memorials
Sidney Allen
We've noticed that we typed this as Sindey Allen and, assuming it's our mistake, we've corrected it.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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