This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
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Morley mosaics - KEW - Octavia Hill
Octavia Hill, born 1838. The founder of modern social work through her tirele...
Octavia Hill - Finchley
Hill's family were living in Brownswell Cottages in 1851. These were on Finc...
Octavia Hill - W1
English Heritage Octavia Hill, 1838 - 1912, housing reformer and co-founder o...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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Jamestown tree
Virginians seem keen on sending us their soil: in 1921 they gave us a statue ...
National Tree Week 1987
National Tree Week is an event which has been promoted by the Tree Council si...
Sutton House & the Robertson brothers
Sutton House This building was given to the National Trust by W. A. Robertson...
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Chelsea Society
The Chelsea Society was founded by the Chelsea author Reginald Blunt (son of Gerald), with the aim of protecting the historical fabric of Chelsea and of influencing future environmental changes.
William Butterfield
Gothic Revival architect. Born London. Wikipedia give a list of his works and it is long, mainly churches, including in London: All Saints - Margaret Street; St Augustine's - Queen's Gate; St. Ma...
Queen Eleanor’s Cross
The last of 12 Eleanor Crosses erected to celebrate Eleanor's last journey. Queen Eleanor of Castile died near Lincoln, with her husband, King Edward I, at her bedside, and was to be buried in Wes...
Alfred Head
Born Holloway. Islington artist and Borough Architect for Islington in 1974. the Riviera Reporter contains an interview with Alfred Head.
Walter Gropius
Architect. Born Walter Adolph Georg Gropius in Berlin. He founded the Bauhaus school. His door handle designs are still being made today. At the rise of Hitler he and his wife Ilse moved to London ...
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Arthur Davis
Born London, as Arthur Joseph Davis. In collaboration with Charles Mewes, he designed the Ritz Hotel, the Royal Automobile Club (Pall Mall), the interior of the Carlton Hotel (lost), the old Mornin...
Edward de Vere
17th Earl of Oxford. Possibly born at Castle Hedingham, Essex. He wrote poetry and was a court favourite. Since the 1920s, he has been among the alternative candidates for the authorship of Shakes...
Mercers' Company
Records go back to 1348. From the Guild‘s website: "In its widest sense mercery could describe all merchandise, although in London the term evolved to mean the trade specifically in luxury fabrics,...
Tate Galleries
Four art galleries. The original was founded in Millbank in 1897, as the National Gallery of British Art. It was renamed in 1932 after Henry Tate who had laid the foundations for the collection. Ta...
Sir Aston Webb
Also designed the eastern façade of Buckingham Palace, the entrance façade to the V&A Museum, Admiralty Arch and the French Huguenot Church in Soho Square.
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