Person    | Male  Born 12/2/1809  Died 15/4/1865

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the USA. Born Kentucky. Assassinated while watching a very popular British play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's theatre, Washington, by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer.

For a list of all the US presidents that appear on London Remembers see John F. Kennedy.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln statue

Copy of the statue in Lincoln Park, Chicago (other copies being in Mexico Cit...

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Christ Church, Lincoln Tower

From Pastscape: "... the octagonal spire ... is decorated by two groups of in...

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President Lincoln bust

{Inscribed on the red granite plinth:} Lincoln by Andrew O'Connor Presented t...

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Edmond Lord Sheffield

Edmond Lord Sheffield

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Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
B. Traven

B. Traven

Pen-name of a novelist about whom little is known for certain other than the fact that he spent time in Mexico where he died. Author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 1927, made into the 1948 ...

Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Germany, Mexico

1 memorial
Sir Sydney Harold Gillett

Sir Sydney Harold Gillett

Lord Mayor in 1958. He seems to have not used the 'Sydney' in his name.

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Actor and 40th President of the USA, 1981 - 1989.  Honorary knighthood - Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.  Best film line?  In the 1942 film "King's Row" on realising that his legs have...

Person, Cinema, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, USA

2 memorials

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Imperial Camel Corps, Australian Contingent, 1st Battalion

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Carved mice

EC3, Philpot Lane, 13

Cabbies are attempting to propagate a myth that these mice commemorate two builders who died while working on the nearby Monument.  We ca...

First driver killed in road accident

First driver killed in road accident

HA1, Grove Hill

Londonist reports: "According to a local press report, 'While the car was going down Grove Hill at a high speed the front wheel collapsed...

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