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Rosamund Praeger and Robert Lloyd Praeger blue plaque

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Rosamund Praeger and Robert Lloyd Praeger blue plaque
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Rosamund modelled clay while Lloyd watched insects, turning a cramped County Down kitchen into a workshop where human muscle and animal instinct shared one table. They stayed until 1954 and 1953, leaving behind neither monument nor manifesto, only the plaques now nailed above the door. Ulster History Circle set their names in blue because forgetting them would require believing that love and observation could happen nowhere visible.
This blue commemorative plaque records: Rosamund Praeger sculptor 1867-1954 and Lloyd Praeger naturalist & historian 1865-1953 lived here Recorded plaque organisation: Ulster History Circle.
Rosamund Praeger was a notable Irish sculptor known for her depictions of rural life and mythology, while her brother Robert Lloyd Praeger was a distinguished naturalist and geographer who made significant contributions to the study of Ireland's flora and geological formations.

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