Fountain

Charles Walker & Lady Graham

Inscription

{ On the west face:}
This garden was opened for the use of the public by Lady Margaret Georgiana Graham, daughter of the Marquess of Northampton, July 8 1885.

{On the east face:}
This public garden has been laid out and completed at the sole cost of Charles Clement Walker Esquire: of Lilleshall Old Hall Shropshire:
he of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Salop and Stafford, a native of the Parish of Clerkenwell, for the free use of the inhabitants thereof for health, recreation and enjoyment.
. . . . .
And in affectionate remembrance of his mother Agnes Walker, long resident in the parish. 1885.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles Walker & Lady Graham

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Agnes Walker

Resident of Clerkenwell, Sutton Street (now Northburgh Street) in 1823. Mothe...

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Charles Clement Walker

Andrew Behan has very kindly done some solid work on Walker in the census ret...

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Charles Walker & Lady Graham

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Lady Margaret Georgiana Graham

Second wife of Sir Henry John Lowndes Graham; daughter of 4th Marquess of Nor...

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Charles Clement Walker

Andrew Behan has very kindly done some solid work on Walker in the census ret...

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