Introductory History
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feminist novelist, biographer, historian and literary critic |
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William Tallemach or Tollemache Sculptor |
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Charles Raymond Smith Sculptor |
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Francis Perceval Eliot Soldier and Man of Letters |
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The Revd John Ashley Founder of the Missions to Seamen |
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Sir Barry Close East India Company General |
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William Fairlie of Fairlie, MP, East India Company Merchant, Financier and Ship Owner |
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William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC, FRS British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Prime Minister of Great Britain, serving in 1783 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1807 to 1809. |
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The sculptor J. C. F. Rossi was born in Nottingham, his father being an Italian doctor. He studied sculpture under Locatelli and became a student at the Royal Academy Schools, exhibiting there for the first time in the following year. He formed a partnership with a mason-sculptor called J. Bingley, and drawing on his early training in terra cotta, made a variety of terra cotta and stone statues. He flourished in the 1790s, winning commissions for architectural sculpture on important buildings, and designing four monuments in St Paul's. He began his own ceramic stone business, with a kiln, cottage and stables in Lisson Grove. Here he made the angels, now gilded, which surround the cupola of St Marylebone church, for which he was paid £300 in 1814. |
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Charles Dickens, perhaps the greatest of English story tellers, lived in Marylebone for many years, within a stone's throw of the church. It was in his house, No 1 Devonshire Terrace, that some of his books were written.
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Dickens’ House at 1 Devonshire Terrace, St Marylebone |
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