The four Adam brothers: John (1721-1792, born Edinburgh), Robert - the important one, James and William, (1738-1822, suicide) together designed classical buildings. Father was an architect. Initially resented in London, as shown by a contemporary song: "Four Scotchmen, by the name of Adams, who keep their coaches and their madams..."
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Adam brothers
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Robert and James Adam - WC2
This plaque was lost when No.4 and all but one of the other houses in the Ter...
The Adelphi
The inscription was created by Sharpington. The photo on his page (27 Novembe...
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Michelangelo
Sculptor, painter, architect and poet.
Person, Architecture, Art, Engineering, Poetry, Sculpture, Seriously Famous, Italy
5 memorials
Frederick Catherwood
Artist, architect and explorer.  Born at 21 Charles Square.  Topographical artist.  He visited many Mediterranean countries drawing their monuments and ruins.  In 1839-40 Catherwood and John Lloyd ...
1 memorial
2 memorials
William Jefferies Collins
Architect and housing developer. He purchased twenty three acres at the foot of Muswell Hill in 1899, and began to build traditional family sized houses. This area had been occupied by Rookfield, A...
1 memorial
Frank M. Harvey
The man on the 1905 plaque is probably not F. Milton Harvey who would have been only 29. Perhaps his father?
1 memorial
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