General Sir Philip Chetwode

Subject: General Sir Philip Chetwode

Died 6/7/1950, 75 years ago

Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode, 7th Baronet of Oakley, GCB, OM, GCSI, KCMG, DSO, GCStJ. Senior Army officer. Served in the Second Boer War and in WW1, on the Western fro...

Person, Armed Forces

2 memorials
The XIVth Dalai Lama

Subject: The XIVth Dalai Lama

Born 6/7/1935, 90 years ago

Spiritual leader of the Gelug or 'Yellow Hat' school of Tibetan Buddhism. Born (in his present incarnation) as Lhamo Dhondup in Taktser, in the east of Qinghai province of China. His spiritual name...

Person, Religion, China/Hong Kong, India, Tibet

1 memorial
King Edward VI

Subject: King Edward VI

Died 6/7/1553, 472 years ago

Only son of Henry VIII (with Jane Seymour who died 12 days after the birth), born Hampton Court. Became king aged 9 and died of consumption 6 years later, at Greenwich Palace. While king he was sup...

Person, Royalty

12 memorials
John Flaxman

Subject: John Flaxman

Born 6/7/1755, 270 years ago

Born in York. Neo-classical sculptor.

Person, Sculpture

7 memorials
Kenneth Grahame

Subject: Kenneth Grahame

Died 6/7/1932, 93 years ago

Author. Born Edinbugh. Aged 5 lost his mother and was brought up in England by his grandparents. Very successful at school in Oxford, he was denied university for financial reasons, which explains ...

Person, Literature, Scotland

2 memorials
Jet Harris

Subject: Jet Harris

Born 6/7/1939, 86 years ago

Musician. Born Terence Harris in Kingsbury. He played with several groups before joining Cliff Richard's backing group The Drifters. At his suggestion they changed their name to The Shadows. He and...

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Revd. Thomas Helmore

Subject: Revd. Thomas Helmore

Died 6/7/1890, 135 years ago

Choir-master and hymn-writer. Born Kidderminster. Died at home in Pimlico.

Person, Music / songs, Religion

1 memorial
King Henry II

Subject: King Henry II

Died 6/7/1189, 836 years ago

King of England 1154–89. Born in France, son of Empress Matilda. The first of the Plantagenets monarchs. First friend and then murderer of Thomas Becket. Father of Richard I and King John - for a m...

Person, Royalty

2 memorials
Sir William Hooker

Subject: Sir William Hooker

Born 6/7/1785, 240 years ago

Botanist. Born William Jackson Hooker at 7 Magdalen Street, Norwich. He collected specimens of mosses from Scotland and Iceland. Became first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1841. Fat...

Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Science, Iceland / Faroe Islands, Scotland

1 memorial
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, D.B.E., F.R.S.L.

Subject: Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, D.B.E., F.R.S.L.

Born 6/7/1952, 73 years ago

Author. She has won the Booker Prize twice with 'Wolf Hall' (a fictional account of the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell) and 'Bring up the Bodies'. Hilary Mary Thompson was born on 6 July 1952 in...

Person, History, Literature

1 memorial
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