Plaque

St Martin's Gardens

Erection date: 24/7/1889

Inscription

St Martin's Gardens, laid out as public grounds by the Vestry of St. Pancras. Declared open by The Countess of Rosebery, on the 24th day of July 1889.
William James Wetenhall, Anthony Boden - churchwardens
Frederick Purchese, Chairman
Andrew Sweet, Deputy Chairman - Highways Sewers and Public Works Committee,
Thomas Bentley Westacott, L.C.C. Chairman,
Edwin George Moore, Deputy Chairman - Parliamentary and General Purpose Committee
Thomas Eccleston Gibb - Vestry Clerk
William Booth Scott - M.I.C.E. - Chief Surveyor to the Vestry.

Site: St Martin's Gardens (2 memorials)

NW1, St Martin's Gardens, Camden Street

The plaques are just inside the gates, on the wall behind the pillar. The gravestones littering this park and its name suggest that it used to be the graveyard for St Martin's Church opposite, but London Cemeteries explains that it was opened in 1805 as the new cemetery for St Martin's in the Fields, in St Martin's Lane.

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St Martin's Gardens

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Anthony Boden

Churchwarden in St Pancras Vestry in the late 1800s.

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Thomas Eccleston Gibb

St Pancras Vestry Clerk in the late 1800s. Andrew Behan has kindly carried o...

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Edwin George Moore

Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary and General Purpose Committee, St Pancra...

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Frederick Purchese

Chairman of the Highways Sewers and Public Works Committee, St Pancras Vestry...

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William Booth Scott

William Booth Scott was born on 18 August 1822 in Hammersmith, the son of Joh...

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Martin's Gardens

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Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery

In 1874, on the death of her father, Mayer de Rothschild, she became the rich...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Martin's Gardens

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St Martin's Gardens - restored

St Martin's Gardens - restored

We initially struggled to identify just who the Countess of Rosebery was in 2...

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