Born Aberdeen. Winner of the Prix de Rome. Other work in London includes the 1963 Joy of Life group in the Hyde Park fountain, pictured by Ornamental Passions.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones
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Livingstone statue
In Kensington Gore façade, on right of picture. The unveiling ceremony is de...
Other Subjects
Bruce Bairnsfather
Cartoonist. WW1 artist. Born Muree, India. He was serving on the western front at the time of the Christmas Truce of 1914 and drew and wrote about it. An article in the Malvern Gazette 21/9/11, pro...
Person, Art, Literature, France, India
Vernon Hill
Sculptor and illustrator. Born Halifax, Yorkshire. Other work in London in St Columba's Church, Pont Street and Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Hanwell.
Lady Ottoline Morrell
Literary hostess and patron of the arts. Died in a clinic at Tunbridge Wells. Her Wikipedia page gives much information about her life and confirms that she was born on 6 June 1873 as Ottoline Vio...
Sir Ambrose Fleming
Electrical engineer. Born John Ambrose Fleming in a house named Greenfield in Lancaster. Best known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube. He was also an accomplished photographer...
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Rossetti fountain
SW3, Chelsea Embankment
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect this memorial because in the list on the back Forman is given ...
Croydon atmospheric railway
An experiment by the London and Croydon Railway. Pumping stations were built which created a vacuum in a pipe laid between the rails. Each carriage had a piston that entered a slot in the tube, sea...
Woolwich Boer war memorial
SE18, Grand Depot Road
{On the front face of the plinth:} To the glory of God Erected by the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the 61st Battery Roy...
20 subjects commemorated
Princess Royal Nurses Home
WC1, Guilford Street
According to Time Magazine at the time this foundation stone was laid, summer of 1933, the Princess Royal was suffering "a frantic debili...
Marsham Street - street sign
SW1, Marsham Street , 2
This sign is suffering from being so low down. It would have originally been on a building at first or second floor level, well ventilate...
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