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A FUND has been raised for the establishment of a memorial to the late Sir Gregory Foster, at College Hall, London, a hall of residence for women students in the University with which he was connected for more than thirty years, during twenty-one of which he was chairman of the Council. Tho memorial has taken the form of the provision of teak doors throughout the public rooms of the new building for the Hall recently erected in Malet Street and to be opened by H.M. the Queen on November 10. A memorial tablet designed by Mr. Brook Kitchin has also been placed in the entrance hall and bears a record of the services rendered by Sir Gregory Foster. A portrait painted by Mrs. Macleod has now been finished and has been hung in the council room of the Hall. It represents the sitter not as his friends knew him in the last years of his life, but as he will be remembered by those who knew him in the fullness of his strength and vigour, thus providing an interesting comparison with the portrait recently painted by Sir William Orpen which hangs in University College. The memorial tablet was unveiled on November 4 by Sir Alexander Gibb, who succeeded Sir Gregory Foster as chairman of the Council of College Hall. About a hundred or so of those who had subscribed to the memorial fund were present, and for the greater number of these the occasion presented the first opportunity of seeing the new building, which in itself is the greatest and most lasting memorial to Sir Gregory Foster's work in providing increased residential accommodation for tho students of the University of London.
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Memorial to Sir Gregory Foster, Bt. Nature 130, 733 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130733b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130733b0