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Bust

Sir Colin St John Wilson

Erection date: 1998

Inscription

{On a nearby plaque:}
Sir Colin St John Wilson RA
Celia Scott, 1998
Gift of the American Trust for the British Library

Site: British Library memorials (9 memorials)

NW1, Euston Road, The British Library

All the sculptures are inside the main building, mainly in or around the entrance foyer. The Wilson bust is in the south-east corner of the main foyer.

See Father Jellicoe for the Gilbert Bayes finials, some of which are/were on display in the BL lower level.

A plaque near the 4 busts in their brick roundels describes them as "the founders".

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Colin St John Wilson

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Sir Colin St John Wilson

Sir Colin Alexander St John Wilson, FRIBA, RA, was an English architect, lect...

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Sir Colin St John Wilson

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American Trust for the British Library

"For supporters in the United States, the American Trust for the British Libr...

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Celia Scott

Worked as an architect in New York and then in London. Then became an artist....

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Sir Hans Sloane - British Library

Sir Hans Sloane - British Library

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Sir Joseph Banks - British Library

Sir Joseph Banks - British Library

This bust is a 20th-century replica after Anne Seymour Damer, 1814.

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