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Conway Hall

Conway Hall

Conway Hall

Open to the public

Association or society in Central London

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Throughout its history (over 200 years), South Place Ethical Society has collected texts and archive material relating to its Freethinking and Humanist aims. However, in addition to printed material, it has also collected portraits of those involved with the Society. Portraits of Bertrand Russell, Thomas Paine, and Moncure Conway (abolitionist and friend of Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, and Charles Darwin) hang alongside key figures of Freethought and Humanism: William Johnson Fox, George Jacob Holyoake (painted by Walter Rowland Holyoake), Chapman Cohen, and Charles Albert Watts (painted by John Collier). We also have portraits of Robert Ingersoll (American Civil War veteran, defender of agnosticism and friend of Walt Whitman), E. M. Forster, Edward Clodd (Chairman of the Rationalist Press Association) and John Saunders, who played at the South Place Concerts for 27 years.

25 Red Lion Square, London, Greater London WC1R 4RL England

0207 061 6747

Conway Hall is located in Holborn, London, and all the portraits are accessible in our Library. Open to the public Sunday–Thursday 10am–5pm.

http://conwayhall.org.uk/1/Home

Artworks

  • Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907)
    Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) Theodore Spicer-Simson (1871–1959) (copy of)
    Conway Hall
  • George Jacob Holyoake (1817–1906)
    George Jacob Holyoake (1817–1906) unknown artist
    Conway Hall
  • Chapman Cohen (1868–1954)
    Chapman Cohen (1868–1954) John Henry Amshewitz (1882–1942)
    Conway Hall
  • Ellen Dana Conway (1833–1897)
    Ellen Dana Conway (1833–1897) Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)
    Conway Hall
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) Daniel Chester French (1850–1931)
    Conway Hall
  • Stanton Coit (1857–1944)
    Stanton Coit (1857–1944) British School
    Conway Hall
  • Edward Clodd (1840–1930)
    Edward Clodd (1840–1930) John Collier (1850–1934)
    Conway Hall
  • 24 more

Artists

  • Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907)
    Theodore Spicer-Simson (1871–1959)
  • Head of a Man
    John Henry Amshewitz (1882–1942)
  • Queen Victoria (1819–1901)
    Lawrence Holofcener (1926–2017)
  • Mask of Lachesis
    Richard Louis Garbe (1876–1957)
  • William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898)
    Albert Toft (1862–1949)
  • E. M. Forster (1879–1970)
    Philip Whichelo (1905–1989)
  • Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891)
    Francis Verheyden (1843–1919)
  • And the Gods Laugh
    Victor Stanley Rose (1911–1991)
  • Mr Francis Riddell
    Charles Kay Robertson (1860–1931)
  • Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907)
    Walter Rowland Holyoake (1835–1889)

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