Son of Martha.
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John Gordon Crawford
A wealthy, early member of the Burns Club of London (founded 1868). Undiscovered Dundee by Brian King informs: "... retired Glasgow merchant, who had lived in London for many years, had met the cos...
Lady Winifred Fortescue
Writer and actress. Born as Winifred Beech in a Suffolk rectory. Died France. 1914 she married John Fortescue (1859-1933, librarian, archivist at Windsor Castle and British Army historian), despit...
Vice-Admiral Sir Donald Gosling
Served in the Royal Navy in 1944-8. Entered business and was the founding member of a highly successful business partnership that took over National Car Parks, which became the largest car parking...
Emily Sparkes
Emily Carpenter, daughter of a Bromley gamekeeper, met George Sparkes while working as his housekeeper. In 1865 she became his second wife. "He is said to have educated the lively and intelligent E...
Susie Burrows
One-time (including June 2020) chair of Newington Green Action Group, which worked with Mary on the Green, the campaign to erect a statue commemorating Mary Wollstonecraft on Newington Green. In 20...
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Peter Pan planters at GOSH
WC1, Great Ormond Street, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Paul O'Gorman Building
Cars, cars, grrr, impossible to take photos of the building that also show the planters, positioned on the steps. These planters caught ...
Priory of the Order of St John of Jerusalem
EC1, St John's Square
These cobbles mark out the site of the original circular church of the medieval Priory of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. The Priory o...
Alexander Cruden
N1, Camden Passage, 45
Camden Passage (link now dead) had a picture of the unveiling by Poet Laureate Betjeman and church dignitaries. 2015: For their excelle...
Clock Tower centenary
N8, The Broadway
There is a clock dial on each of the four facades, and they are all working - August 2004 anyway. Above each dial is inscribed "1895". B...
Frieze of Parnassus - Weber
SW7, Kensington Road
The monument, officially titled the Prince Consort National Memorial, celebrates Victorian achievement and Prince Albert's passions and i...
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