Erection date: 1855
To the intrepid young Bellot of the French navy who in the endeavour to rescue Franklin shared the fate and the glory of that illustrious navigator.
From his British admirers, 1853.
{The river-facing side carries:}
Bellot
33ft high red granite. Described in detail at the splendid PMSA.
SE10, Five Foot Walk, Royal Naval College
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bellot memorial obelisk
Explorer. Born Paris. For his participation in the 1845 Anglo-French exped...
Born Lincolnshire. Royal Navy. Governor of Tasmania 1836-43. where there is a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bellot memorial obelisk
Architect. His father and grandfather were both architects with the name Tho...
The language on the panels becomes increasingly convoluted and some of the abbreviations and Latin require clarification. Panel 1 - We b...
We knew that the obelisk now at St George's Circus spent much of its life in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, from about 1897 - 1998, and ...
Pink granite, 68.5 feet high, 186 tons. Vulliamy created, and Youngs cast, the bronze sphinxes at the base, about which our colleague, Al...
We found the inscription text at IWM. It's from a report of the unveiling in the Hackney and Kingsland Gazette 23 February 1921.
The plaque to the Mayoralty is attached low down on the base of the obelisk.
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 - 1797, author of 'A Vindication of the Right of Women', pioneer of women's rights and mother of Mary Shelley. ...
Sculptor and illustrator. Born Bloomsbury. Executed a large number of public statues and funerary works, and worked closely with George Gilbert Scott on the Albert Memorial. Died at home 52 Circus ...
Queen (in her own right) of the Netherlands 1890 - 1948, the longest reign of any monarch of that country. From the Picture source website: "Following the Nazi occupation during the Second World Wa...
Molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist. Born Chicago as James Dewey Watson. 1962 awarded a Nobel Prize with Crick and Wilkins, for their work on the theory of a double-helix structure for DNA.
Churchwarden of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook in 1884. Given the shared surname we thought this might be the Reverend White's son, Edward, but he would have been only 11 in 1884 so it's not hi...
