A boilermaker on the RMS Titanic. A résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website.
He is also commemorated on a memorial at Craigton Cemetery, Berryknowes Road, Glasgow, and on another at Toxteth Park Cemetery, 215 Smithdown Road, Liverpool L15 2HF.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
George Alexander Chisnall
The memorial was originally displayed in the foyer of the Institute of Marine...
In 1819, made and sold Britain's first bicycle in its hobby-horse form. As a coachmaker Johnson was able to make significant improvements to the two-wheel velocipede, as invented by von Drais. He o...
Sculptor, painter, architect and poet.
Person, Architecture, Art, Engineering, Poetry, Sculpture, Seriously Famous, Italy
Pedestrian tunnel under the Thames designed by Sir Alexander Binnie, linking Greenwich town centre in the south with Island Gardens Park in the north. It is 1,215 feet (370.2 m) long and 50 feet (1...
Civil engineer, particularly with water projects. Born near Nottingham. Died at home at 14 Phillimore Gardens.
The conversion to automatic operation of all the lighthouses and light vessels. The last one to be done (perfectly timed to occur on Trafalgar Day) was North Foreland Light in Kent. For the 400 yea...
