This monument in the memory of Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S. & 12 years President of the Royal Geographic Society was erected in the year 1921 by the Peruvian nation in gratitude for his services as historian of their country.
SW7, Kensington Gore, Royal Geographic Society
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Markham
12 years President of the Royal Geographic Society. Born at Stillingfleet, Yo...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Markham
He is wearing a plaid - a large tartan shawl/blanket, as modelled by Mel Gibson.
Tennyson died October 1892, the same year that this building was 'erected' according to the foundation stone, though above the entrance 1...
The original bust was first installed in 1965 in Military Park, Newark, New Jersey. Additional bronzes were cast for this site and for th...
Royal Observatory Greenwich comments on a photo of this portrait and its 2 neighbours: "Halley, Newton and Napier as they appear on the o...
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The low rise terrace of shops on the west side of Kilburn High Road, immediately north of Coventry Close are addressed 1-12 Kilburn Bridg...
Historical painter and diarist. Born Plymouth. Not a successful man; Haydon's biographer, Paul O'Keefe, says that Haydon has been called "the William McGonagall of British painting". One morning af...
Horticulturalist. Born Edward Augustus Bowles but professionally known as E. A. Bowles. Born at his family's home, Myddelton House near Enfield, where he later created a garden, now open to the pu...
A family squabble developed into a fight in which Paul Hamilton, 30, of nearby Woodstock Terrace fatally stabbed his cousin, Liam Hamilton, in the back with a large kitchen knife, near the site of ...
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