Water colour painter. Born Stoke-on-Trent. Came to London to study painting. Died at home, 40 Upper Gower Street.
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Peter De Wint
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Fabian Benedict Peake
Artist and writer. Fabian Benedict Peake was the younger son of Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) and Maeve Patricia Mary Theresa Peake née Gilmore (1918-1983). His birth was registered as Fabian Peake in...
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Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE, FBA
Art historian. Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich was born in Vienna, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. He fled to Britain, after his first book 'A Little History of the World' was banned by the Nazi ...
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Leighton Fund
Originated as the bequest left by Lord Leighton in 1896. Bob Speel provides some useful information about what the fund has bought. The newspaper article quoted at Sloane Square fountain contains:...
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Gordon Home
Author, historian and artist. Gordon Cochrane Home. From London SE1: "...writer and artist who produced many pen and ink sketches of cathedrals, including Southwark, for A & C Black, J M Dent ...
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Henry Hugh Armstead
Sculptor and illustrator. Born Bloomsbury. Executed a large number of public statues and funerary works, and worked closely with George Gilbert Scott on the Albert Memorial. Died at home 52 Circus ...
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Harry Beckett
Harold Winston "Harry" Beckett. Trumpeter and flugelhorn player. Born Barbados. Resident in the UK from 1954.
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The Ring pub
SE1, Blackfriars Road, 72
The Surrey Chapel which became used as a boxing ring stood at this junction diagonally opposite this pub, on the site now occupied by TfL...
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