Elizabethan seafarer. With Peter Hill he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers. In the nearby church of St Mary the Virgin there is a brass plate commemorating 'Peter Hills, Mariner, one of the Elder Brothers of the Company of the Trinity, and Master of Trinity House in 1593'.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Robert Bell
{On the plaque between the two charity scholars:} St Mary Rotherhithe free sc...
In 1466 the school attached to the church of St Dunstan in the East was one of the five recognised grammar schools in the City of London. In 1888 this boys independent school was moved out to Catfo...
A further education college in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.It has four different campuses, the largest of which is on Poplar High Street.
First school in England for the education of the deaf. Established by Thomas Braidwood. On old maps one can see a large house just a little to the north of the plaque location but we can find n...
Teacher and educational reformer. Born in Zurich. Motto "Learning by head, hand and heart". Wrote novels explaining his principles, e.g. 'Leonard and Gertrude', 1781. Died Brugg, Switzerland.