This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
1500th tree planted in the City
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1500th tree in the City
Tilla platyphyllos (broad leaved lime) planted by The Right Hon. The Lord May...
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World Wildlife Fund
Now known as the World Wide Fund for Nature. It is an international non-governmental organisation, working in wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human intervention on the environment. J...
Group, Animals, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
2 memorials
Alexander McKenzie
Landscape designer to the Metropolitan Board of Works. He wrote 'Parks, Open Spaces and Thoroughfares of London' (1869). Was the first Superintendent of Alexandra Palace Park, and was also bailiff ...
1 memorial
John Evelyn
17th century diarist and garden designer. Born Wotton, Surrey. Through his 1647 marriage he came into possession of the Sayes Court estate in Deptford, on the Thames. As far as we can tell the poss...
4 memorials
Croydon Road Recreation Ground
The land was purchased by the Beckenham Local Board to provide a public open space which had been lacking since the loss of the Fair Field for housing in the 1870s. The site was part of open farmla...
1 memorial
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Professor Sir Ernst Chain
SW7, Chemistry Building, Imperial College Road
The plaque was unveiled on or shortly before 10 April 2019. It was not yet on the building but on one of those easel things often used fo...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
1 memorial
Jessica Turner
Known as Bill. Donated many of her sister's and father's sculptural works to public institutions. From V&A: while her sister studied sculpture Jessica "was content to assist her father". The a...
1 memorial
John Harrison
WC1, Dane Street
London county Council John Harrison, 1693 - 1776, inventor of the marine chronometer, lived and died in a house on this site.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Leslie Howard
Actor and film director. Born Leslie Howard Steiner at 31 Westbourne Road, Forest Hill. He began his career as a stage actor in Britain and the USA. In films, he appeared in 'Berkeley Square', 'The...
1 memorial