What is the Bloomsbury Project?
The -funded UCL Bloomsbury Project was established to investigate 19th-century Bloomsbury’s development from swampy rubbish-dump to centre of intellectual life
Led by Professor Rosemary Ashton, with Dr Deborah Colville as Researcher, the Project has traced the origins, Bloomsbury locations, and reforming significance of hundreds of progressive and innovative institutions
Many of the extensive archival resources relating to these institutions have also been identified and examined by the Project, and Bloomsbury’s developing streets and squares have been mapped and described
This website is a gateway to the information gathered and edited by Project members during the Project’s lifetime, 1 October 2007–30 April 2011, with the co-operation of Bloomsbury’s institutions, societies, and local residents
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Bloomsbury and the Bloomsbury Project
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Thomas Leverton Donaldson (1795–1885)
a summary of his Bloomsbury connections
He was born at 8 Bloomsbury Square; his father and uncle were both architects
He was the first Professor of Architecture at a university in England, appointed to the new Chair at University College London in 1842
Robson’s Directory for 1832 lists a T. L. Donaldson, Architect, at t no. 7 Hart Street
He later lived at 21 Upper Bedford Place, the house where he died in 1885
For more general biographical information about Thomas Leverton Donaldson, see his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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