The University also owns many of the squares which formed part of the Bedford Estate, including Gordon Square, Tavistock Square, Torrington Square and Woburn Square.

John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford kept a bust of Fox in his pantheon of Whig grandees at Woburn Abbey and erected a statue of him in Bloomsbury Square.

* Woburn Place and Woburn Square in London

Russell Square was designed as the focal point of the development for which he commissioned Humphry Repton to landscape after the success of his work for the Duke at his Woburn Estate.

Other local street names relating to the Duke of Bedford include Bedford Square, Bedford Place, Bedford Avenue, Bedford Row and Bedford Way ; Woburn Square and Woburn Place ( from Woburn Abbey ); Tavistock Square, Tavistock Place and Tavistock Street ( Marquess of Tavistock ), and Thornhaugh Street ( after a subsidiary title Baron of Thornhaugh ).

** Woburn Square

* Woburn Square

* Woburn Square

* Woburn Square

From 1958 to 1989 the Courtauld collection was housed in part of the premises of the Warburg Institute in Woburn Square.

Richard Addinsell was born in Woburn Square, London, to William Arthur Addinsell, who was a chartered accountant, and his wife, Annie Beatrice Richards.

With his wife, the former Henrietta Joan Tiarks, he appeared in the BBC series Country House, detailing daily life at Woburn Abbey, the Bedfords ' ancestral home in Bedfordshire, England.

It is best known as the location of Woburn Abbey ( a stately home ), founded by Cistercian monks in 1145 and bequeathed to the first Earl of Bedford in 1538 after the dissolution of the monasteries, and Woburn Safari Park.

His home Baldwin House -- originally built in 1660 and expanded in the 1800s — still stands in Woburn and is currently in use as a Chinese restaurant.

He was born in Foxton, Cambridgeshire, England, living there and on the island of Patmos, Greece, later settling in Woburn, Massachusetts, his father's home town.

By the 1970s, with the advent of the 128 Technology Belt, Westford began to act as a suburb for high-tech firms in Burlington, Woburn, and other areas, and later became a center of technology itself.

During the mid to late 1970s, the local community became concerned over the high incidence of childhood leukemia and other illnesses, particularly in the Pine Street area of east Woburn.

After high levels of chemical contamination were found in City of Woburn ’ s Wells G and H in 1979, some members of the community suspected that the unusually high incidence of leukemia, cancer, and a wide variety of other health problems were linked to the possible exposure to volatile organic chemicals in the groundwater pumped from wells G and H.

Grace's subsidiary, Cryovac, and Beatrice were suspected of contaminating the groundwater by improperly disposing of trichloroethylene ( TCE ), perchloroethylene ( perc or PCE ) and other industrial solvents at their facilities in Woburn near wells G and H.

This house was bought by the Duke of Bedford thirty years after its completion, and demolished, because the Duke wanted no other mansion close to Woburn Abbey.

The United Kingdom hosts several other annual oyster festivals, for example Woburn Oyster Festival is held in September.

In April 1786 John Adams ( the future second President of the United States on tour with Thomas Jefferson — who would serve as his vice president before becoming President himself ) visited Woburn Abbey and other notable house in the area, after visiting them he wrote in his diary " Stowe, Hagley, and Blenheim, are superb ; Woburn, Caversham, and the Leasowes are beautiful.

It soon gained in popularity as other amusements were added, including Woburn Safari Park on the grounds of the Abbey in 1970.

In Anthony Horowitz's 1987 book Public Enemy Number Two, the book's main character Nick Diamond is framed for the theft of the Woburn Carbuncles as part of a plan by two Scotland Yard detectives to imprison him in order to find out the identity of a criminal mastermind known as The Fence — who ironically turns out to be the class teacher who was supervising Diamond and the other children on the school trip to Woburn Abbey.

There are many examples of his work in other British collections, including several at the Wallace Collection and a set of 24 in the dining room at Woburn Abbey.

Woburn Abbey, Forde Abbey and many other mansions with Abbey or Priory in their name often date from this period as private houses.

Woburn Abbey, Forde Abbey and many other mansions with Abbey or Priory in their name often date from this period as private houses.

In April 1786 John Adams ( the future second President of the United States on tour with Thomas Jefferson — who would serve as his vice president before becoming President himself ) visited Hagley and other notable house in the area, after visiting them he wrote in his diary " Stowe, Hagley, and Blenheim, are superb ; Woburn, Caversham, and the Leasowes are beautiful.

Working closely with faculty, the Prefects of Woburn are responsible for making sure school events run smoothly, such as Welcome Day, photo days, and other various fairs such as the career and volunteer fairs.

PEG additionally started its own competition, called Woburn Challenge, to draw in both students from other schools and university students.

Adam de Woburn lived at Woburn Park in 1260 where famed gardener Philip Southcote chose to construct in the 1740s CE a two-storey house, also named Woburn Park, with an original ornamented farm (' ferme ornée ) on Woburn Hill with fields for cattle or crops, decorated with statues, grotto, vases, temples, archways and other features, much of which survives as part of St George's RC College.

In 1891, Russell inherited the title of Duke of Bedford, together with Woburn Abbey and several other estates which went with it, including Chenies, Buckinghamshire, and an area of central London around Bedford Square.

At that time the area included present day towns of Woburn, Winchester, Burlington, and parts of Stoneham and Wilmington.

The territory of Charlestown originally included what is now Melrose and Malden ( both until 1649 ), Stoneham ( until 1725 ), Somerville ( until 1842 ), Medford, Everett, Woburn, Burlington, and parts of Arlington and Cambridge.

Until the middle of the 19th century, Winchester comprised parts of Arlington, Medford, Cambridge, and Woburn.

A renewed interest in coprolite mining in the First World War extended the area of interest into parts of Buckinghamshire as far west as Woburn.

A series of small public libraries donated by patrons for the improvement of New England towns makes a small coherent corpus that defines Richardson's style: libraries in Woburn, North Easton, Malden, Massachusetts, the Thomas Crane Public Library ( Quincy, Massachusetts, 1880 – 1882 ), and Billings Memorial Library on the campus of the University of Vermont.

Timbrell was born in Kingston, Ontario and educated at Woburn Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario and York University in Toronto.

Woburn Square is the smallest of the Bloomsbury Squares and owned by the University of London.

Laws was educated at fee-paying independent schools: Woburn Hill School in the town of Weybridge, Surrey, from 1974 to 1979 ; and St George's College, Weybridge, a Roman Catholic day school in the same town, from 1979 to 1984.

Sullivan was chosen company president, and its vice president and eventual chief engineer was Loammi Baldwin, a native of Woburn who had attended science lectures at Harvard College and was a friend of physicist Benjamin Thompson.

Later he would walk from North Woburn to Cambridge with his younger friend and childhood neighbor, Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford, to attend the lectures of Professor John Winthrop at Harvard College.

Beginning with Woburn's first student representation at the event in 1986, over the next 18 years Woburn would be represented at the IMO an impressive eleven times, exceeding the representations of more famous academically elite high schools such as Earl Haig Secondary School ( seven times ), and Upper Canada College ( five times ).

is located in Addlestone Moor, on the Thames winter flood meadows ( prior to the construction of the Thames Barrier next to the Woburn Arms and the athletics track in Woburn Park which is now St George's RC College.

Baldwin was born at North Woburn, Massachusetts living at Baldwin House aka " The Baldwin Mansion ", educated at Westford Academy, and graduated from Harvard College in 1800.