Sculptor. Philip Henry Christopher Jackson was born Inverness. Studio in Midhurst, West Sussex. Other works: giant equestrian artwork of the Queen, erected in Windsor Great Park, to celebrate her golden jubilee; George VI for Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; Manchester United manager Sir Matt Busby for the football club's Old Trafford ground.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Philip Jackson
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Bomber Command Memorial
The campaign to bomb civilians was so controversial that the bombers were giv...
Chelsea Pensioner statue
Commissioned by the Royal Hospital Chelsea to commemorate the Second Millenni...
Gandhi statue - Parliament Square
{On the front of the plinth:} Mahatma Gandhi {On the base of the statue, at ...
Gurkha soldier
Unveiled by the Queen. Modelled by Jackson on the 1929 statue by Goulden in t...
Joan Littlewood - Stratford statue
This bronze statue, called The Mother of Modern Theatre, is based on an iconi...
Other Subjects
Paul Raphael Montford
Sculptor. Born in Kentish Town to father Horace. Other works in London: Battersea Town Hall (1892) and the panel on the King Charles Street bridge on Whitehall. Other websites refer to Montford's 1...
Caius Gabriel Cibber
Sculptor. Born Denmark. Came to England in about 1655 and arrived in London by 1660. Also carved the amazing statues of Melancholy and Raving Madness that used to adorn the entrance gates of Bethl...
Paula Haughney
Sculptor. Her website, our picture source, says that she "lives and works in the east end with a studio in the Bromley by Bow community centre."
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EC1, Newgate Street
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14 Croydon - Henry Purcell
CR9, Katharine Street, Croydon Public Library
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Percy Crane
Auxiliary fireman killed in the bomb attack on Henry Cavendish School, Balham. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Percy Crane was born on 1 December 1907 in Clapham, a son of Si...
King George V - Bexleyheath bust
DA6, Bexleyheath Market Place
The original temporary plaster bust was unveiled at the tower's opening ceremony in 1912, but during the 1930s it started to disintegrate...
King Henry VIII
Son of Henry VII. Born Born Greenwich Palace, as the spare, not the heir but his brother Arthur predeceased him and their father, aged 15, but not before marrying Catherine of Aragon, who later in ...
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