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Plaque

Burdett-Coutts School

Erection date: 1924

Inscription

These improvements were carried out with trust funds in memory of the late Right Honourable W. Burdett-Coutts.
S. Burdett-Coutts, Chairman of Governors AD 1924

Site: Burdett-Coutts School (1 memorial)

SW1, Rochester Street, Burdett-Coutts & Townshend Foundation CE Primary School

founded by Angela Burdett-Coutts in 1849 and a member of that family still (2016) sits on the governing board. William had died just 3 years before the plaque was erected.

The plaque is over what is now the main entrance, at the A-board on the pavement in our photo.

See Chauncy Hare Townshend Schools for more information.

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Burdett-Coutts School

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William Burdett-Coutts

Born of British stock in America as William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett. On his f...

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Burdett-Coutts School

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S. Burdett-Coutts

Chairman of Governors of the Burdett-Coutts and Townshend Foundation School i...

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