Scientist, artist, etc. - a polymath, the first "renaissance man".
Born in Vinci, Italy (No? Really?). Died in France.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Leonardo da Vinci
Commemorated ati
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Glyn Philpot
Glyn Warren Philpot. Artist, known for his portraits. Born Clapham but brought up in Kent. It's fixed now, but when we first did the research Wikipedia had Philpot "married" to Vivian Forbes long b...
1 memorial
Samuel Courtauld
Industrialist and art collector. 1932 founded The Courtauld Institute of Art. Managed the family textile firm as a director from 1908, and as chair 1921-46. Served twice as chair of the Trustees ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Yehudi Menuhin
Born in New York, child of recent immigrants, achieved fame as a violinist at age 7. Spent most of his career in Britain, becoming a British citizen in 1985. Initially working in the classics, as p...
1 memorial
Charity scholars
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we can find no origin story explaining why and when the first such statues were erected. We note that there seems to be a ...
23 memorials
Rosslyn Heights
NW3, Belsize Lane, Rosslyn Heights
Rosslyn Gardens, the red-brick mansions on the northern side of this road (now nos. 4-26 Belsize Lane) was built about 1881.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Battle of Waterloo
SE1, Waterloo Station
The Fitzwilliam Museum has a page showing an original medal and: "The victory of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 led to the first British Ar...
3 subjects commemorated,
3 creators