Henry Buxton Forman

Subject: Henry Buxton Forman

Born 11/7/1842, 183 years ago

Born Camden Place, Southampton Street, Camberwell. Bibliographer and forger. An authority on the lives and works of Shelley and Keats. He also had a lifelong career in the Post Office and was award...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
William Edward Forster

Subject: William Edward Forster

Born 11/7/1818, 207 years ago

Born Dorset. Member of Parliament for Bradford, 1861- 1886, where there is another statue of him. Educational reformer. Died at 80 Eccleston Square.

Person, Education, Industry, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Henry Cotton

Memorial: Henry Cotton

Erected 11/7/2017, 8 years ago

SE22, Crystal Palace Road, 47

Henry Cotton, 1907 - 1987, champion golfer, lived here. English Heritage

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Admiral Sir Caspar John

Subject: Admiral Sir Caspar John

Died 11/7/1984, 41 years ago

Born 18 Fitzroy Street. Pioneer in the fleet air arm. British first sea lord from 1960 -1963. Invested as Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath (G.C.B.) 1960. Died Hayle, Cornwall.

Person, Armed Forces

1 memorial
Leon Lebor

Subject: Leon Lebor

Born 11/7/1950, 75 years ago

United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Leon Lebor was born on 11 July 1950. His birth was registered in Marylebone, London, his mother's maiden n...

Person, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial
Lesney Products & Co. Ltd.

Subject: Lesney Products & Co. Ltd.

Ended 11/7/1982, 43 years ago

The company's name came from the forenames of its founders Leslie Smith (1918 - 2005) and Rodney Smith (1917 - 2013). They were not related, but had been schoolfriends and also served together in t...

Group, Engineering

2 memorials
Charles Macklin

Subject: Charles Macklin

Died 11/7/1797, 228 years ago

Actor and playwright. Probably born in County Donegal, Ireland in about 1699. Lived in Bow Street.. Died at home in Tavistock Row.

Person, Theatre, Ireland

1 memorial
Paul Nash

Subject: Paul Nash

Died 11/7/1946, 79 years ago

Painter and watercolourist. Served with the Artists' Rifles in WW1.

Person, Art

2 memorials
Newquay House - left

Memorial: Newquay House - left

Erected 11/7/1933, 92 years ago

SE11, Newburn Street, Newquay House

In 1933 the Duke of Cornwall was Prince Edward, who would later briefly become King Edward VIII.

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Lieutenant Harold Thomas Noakes

Subject: Lieutenant Harold Thomas Noakes

Born 11/7/1899, 126 years ago

Harold Thomas Noakes was born on 11 July 1899 in Stockwell, the elder son of Thomas Frederick Noakes (1868-1915) and Ada Lizzie Hunt Noakes née Smith (1871-1919). He was baptised on 20 August 1899 ...

Person, Belgium

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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