 In 1911, he gave £30,000 to University College London to fund a new building for the School of Architecture, along with the Department of Applied Statistics and studios for the teaching of sculpture.The donation was initially anonymous, but in 1919 he consented to his name being revealed, and The Bartlett (the Faculty of the Built Environment) now bears his name.Bartlett also made a sizeable donation to Ernest Shackleton’s first voyage to Antarctica, where the explorer named a peak ‘Mount Bartlett’ after him.