Person    | Male  Born 1873  Died 1939

Omar Ramsden

Categories: Craft / Design, Sculpture

Countries: USA

Silversmith. Born Sheffield but spent some of his childhood in America. Had studios in Chelsea and then Fulham, with a staff of up to 20. He was a designer and businessman. There's a suggestion that he didn't actually work the silver himself. The web provides a good display of Ramsden's designs in an Art Nouveau style. Credit for the Beit plaque is given to Ramsden on the Imperial College timeline but it seems an odd item in his body of work.

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Omar Ramsden

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Sir Otto Beit

"The munificence of his benefactions" - we just don't write plaques like that...

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Emily Hoffnung

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John Penfold

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J. Starkie Gardner

J. Starkie Gardner

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William Morris (designer)

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William Caslon IV

William Caslon IV

In 1816 produced the first sans-serif printing type. Great grandson of William Caslon I.

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T. A. Hamblin

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C. Bennett

Name on one of the corner plaques of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

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Robert F. Davies

Robert F. Davies

Worked at the Stock Exchange and died in WW1.

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial