Louis de Soissons
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Louis Emanuel Jean Guy de Savoie-Carignan de Soissons CVO RA FRIBA (1890–1962) was the younger son of Charles de Savoie-Carignan, Count de Soissons. An architect, he was called for professional purposes Louis de Soissons.
Welwyn Garden City memorial garden to de Soissons in May 2017
Memorial to Sir Theodore Chambers, Welwyn Garden City (lettering designed by William Sharpington)
William Sharpington
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William Sharpington (1900–1973) was a British lettering artist who worked in sign painting and the design of monuments. In the view of John Nash and Gerald Fleuss, his workshop "produced, from the [1940s] to the [1960s], some of the most distinguished public lettering in England".
Sharpington working on lettering at the Adelphi in 1951
Memorial to John Collis Browne, Ramsgate
British Museum staff war memorial, Second World War section (detail)
Lettering for the Roosevelt Memorial, London