Architect. Born 9 Portland Place, now Bartholomew Street, SE1. His partnership with Harold Peto was extremely successful. They designed many of the houses in Harrington and Collingham Gardens including 39 Harrington Gardens for W. S. Gilbert. Other London work: The Royal Exchange Buildings on Cornhill, Royal Academy of Music in Marylebone Road, Southwark Bridge. Died at home, 71 Palace Court, Bayswater.
2023: Spitalfields Life has a whole post about George's London etchings.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Ernest George
Sir Ernest George (1839 - 1922), architect, lived here. Southwark Council
Built by Sir Ernest George, Royal Academician, President Royal Institute of B...
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Sir Ernest George
Henry Lofts erected this fountain without naming anyone he wished to commemor...
Thomas Griffin, fitters labourer, April 12, 1899, in a boiler explosion at a ...
{Beneath the 'bridge mark' of the Bridge House Estates and above the City of ...
Architect. Born in Scotland, a descendent of the Campbells of Cawdor Castle. One of the initiators of the Neo-Palladian movement through his publication, the 3-part Vitruvius Britannicus.
Architects. Projects include the restoration of the Natural History Museum facade, Liverpool Street Station concourse and the Isokon Building.
Architect. Born Wells Wintemute Coates in Tokyo of Canadian parents. He was influenced by Le Corbusier's principal that buildings should be 'machines for living' , which was reflected in his best k...
Unveiled by the Queen in the presence of many members of the Kennedy family and the PM Harold Macmillan. Videos of the unveiling at Briti...
Essayist, biographer, lexicographer and speaker of quotes. Born Lichfield, Staffordshire. Left home and travelled to London with David Garrick. "When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; f...
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Southwark, Camberwell and Bermondsey. Southwark council annually invites proposals for new plaques fro...
In records prior to 1800 their names made it is easy to confuse the house that stood here with another which stood at what is now Pitzhanger Park, about a mile to the north. In 1768, George Dance ...
Founded by Edward VI in the remains of Greyfriars Monastery for the education of poor children. The first pupils arrived in November 1552. In 1682 Sir Robert Clayton erected much of the building, d...
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