{On the plinth:}
William Frederick Danvers Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden, born 1868, died 1928. Head of the firm of W.H. Smith and Son. Member of Parliament for the Strand Division, 1891 - 1910. Chairman of King's College Hospital.
A public-spirited unselfish gentleman.
WC2, Lincoln's Inn Fields
There was apparently a bust surmounting this plinth with seat but - no more.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
W. H. Smiths - WC2
Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna opened a small newsvendors in 1792 in Li...
On his father's death in 1891 he became head of the family firm of W.H. Smith...
This shop front has, like a lot of shop fronts of this period, atop the flanking pillars, decorative capitals and corbels. On this shop ...
Inside this building on the upper-ground floor there are 4 busts - 2 in the foyer area at the entrance from the pavement (at the west) an...
As so often, Ornamental Passions have a good post on this sculpture.
According to the plaque these are, clockwise from top left:Â Debra Lee, Phineas Pett, Tsar Peter the Great, Dr Burnhart Gloss, Catherine o...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
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