Mieczysław Jan Ireneusz Lubelski (1886-1965) - Polish sculptor, author of monumental sculptures. Lubelski was a pupil of Xawery Dunikowski. His artistic activities included designing tombstones in the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, including the tombstone of Ludwik Zamenhof. The realisation of this 1921 project took place in Aberdeen (Scotland), where it was made of local grey granite and then transported to Poland. It is thanks to this project that Lubelski is remembered as the author of the Zamenhof monument in the novel A Curable Romantic. Between 1921 and 1927, he was a member of a Poznan art group called 'Dawn'. Its first members included such figures as Fryderyk Pautsch, Adam Ballenstedt, Bronisław Bartel, Wiktor Gosieniecki, Stanisław Jagmin, Mieczysław Lubelski, Władysław Roguski, Stefan Sonnewend and Jan Jerzy Wroniecki. The exhibitions organised by the society were characterised by an exceptional artistic level and had an inspiring influence on the developing young artistic colony in Poznań. Before the war, Lubelski's studio was located in Warsaw, in Saska Kępa, in a house designed in 1928 by Czesław Przybylski. In January 1926, Lubelski won a competition to design a monument to Tadeusz Kościuszko in Łódź. In order to supervise the work on the monument, he settled in Lodz in a studio at 6 Brzozowa Street. The foundation stone for the monument was laid on 3 May 1927, and it took Lubelski about four years to complete the work. The work was unveiled on 14 December 1930. In 1927, Lubelski presented two of his works at the exhibition "Polish Sculpture": "Hygea", which symbolised the transmission of knowledge (it was made of artificial stone), and a bust of General Unrug. In addition, he participated as a juror in a competition at this exhibition. There is a Polish War Memorial in the Northolt area, erected to commemorate the 2165 Polish airmen who fell in the Second World War. This memorial, described in memoirs, especially those from the war period, for example by Stefania Kossowska, was unveiled in 1948. It is located near RAF Northolt - the main base for Polish airmen during the Battle of Britain.