Elizabethan seafarer. With Robert Bell he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Peter Hill
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St Mary Rotherhithe Free School
{On the plaque between the two charity scholars:} St Mary Rotherhithe free sc...
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Old Palace of John Whitgift School
A nursery, preparatory and senior school, founded by the Sisters of the Church. In 1945 it became a Direct Grant Grammar School, and in 1975 a fully independent day school for girls. It joined the ...
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Manor House School Stoke Newington
Boarding School. First mentioned in 1813, but probably built some years before that. Its most famous pupil was Edgar Allan Poe, who was educated there from 1817 to 1820.
1 memorial
Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital
From AIM: "Medical students at St Bartholomew's Hospital are first recorded in 1662. The School and the Hospital were formally separated in 1921, when the School was incorporated with a new title,...
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Anna Kendall
Headteacher of Christ Church Primary School, 1992 - 2009. The image comes from a 2010 interview.
2 memorials
Joshua Watson
Philanthropist, educationalist and prominent lay churchman. Born Tower Hill. Went into his father's wine merchant business. 1811 he took the house at Clapton. A leading member of the "Hackney P...
1 memorial