Person    | Male  Born 1861  Died 1940

John Wenlock Rollins

Categories: Sculpture

John Wenlock Rollins

Sculptor whose London works include: the wonderful bronze doorway of the P&O Building in Cockspur Street, the fountain in front of the Horniman Museum, Poetry and Prose on the facade of Croydon Town Hall. Information from Tiscali. Buried Golders Green Crematorium.

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John Wenlock Rollins

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Whitgift statue

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Faith Winter

Faith Winter

Faith Weamy Beatrice Ashe was born in August 1927. Electoral registers from 1949 to 1954 list her living at Keston Cottage, The Street, Puttenham, Guildford, Surrey. Also on the registers at this a...

Person, Sculpture

3 memorials
Richard Moore

Richard Moore

Father of Capt. Francis W. Moore, M.C. whose name appears on the memorial erected by his father. If Moore Snr. really did the carving on the monument then he was a talented sculptor and we are surp...

Person, Benefactor, Sculpture

1 memorial
John Adams-Acton

John Adams-Acton

Sculptor.  Born John Adams in Acton and later added the (now) suburb's name to his, not because of pride in his place of birth but to differentiate himself from other artists of the same name.  Did...

Person, Sculpture

2 memorials
Mihail Chemiakin

Mihail Chemiakin

Sculptor. He spent his early years in East Germany, where his father was serving in the army. Returning to Russia, he worked at the Hermitage museum. He was exiled in 1971 for failing to conform to...

Person, Sculpture, France, Germany, Russia

1 memorial
Mary Grant

Mary Grant

Despite her Wikipedia page stating (in 2022) that she was born in 1831, she was actually born on 16 March 1830 in Edinburgh, Scotland, a daughter of John Grant (1798-1873) and Lucy Grant née Bruce ...

Person, Sculpture, Scotland

1 memorial

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Councillor G. Croot

Councillor G. Croot

Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905. This Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health, West Ham, 1909 gives more of his name, referring to 'G. Croot'.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Greater London Council

Greater London Council

Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone.  On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...

Group, Politics & Administration

241 memorials
Great Fire of London

Great Fire of London

Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area of one and a half miles by a half mile - 87 churches - 13,200 houses - only 6 people are recorded as having died (but ...

Event, Tragedy

55 memorials
Judge Donald Cryan

Judge Donald Cryan

His Honour Judge Donald Michael Cryan was born on 18 January 1948 and his birth was registered in Ealing. He was Called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1970 and appointed as a Circuit Judge in 1996....

Person, Law

2 memorials