Naval officer. Born Aberdeenshire. Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1853 until his death. 75 years in the navy, he was possibly the model for C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Admiral of the Fleet, Sir James Alexander Gordon, GCB
Commemorated ati
Greenwich Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground
The names on the monument are of men whose claim to immortality is their role...
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Major Ernest Edward Austen, DSO
Ernest Edward Austen was born in 1867 in Dalston, Middlesex (now Greater London), the eldest of the five children of Ambrose Austen (1838-1924) and Eliza Burnet Austen née Smith (1839-1916). His bi...
War served, Other war
1 memorial
Zeppelin airships
Invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1900. London was first targeted with airships in May 1915 and initially found defence very difficult. Searchlights and incendiary ammunition helped to de...
7 memorials
H. H. Lewis
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Col. Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, K.C.V.O., LL.D.
Very successfully pioneered bookshops on railway stations with the business name Horace Marshall and Son. The son being Horace Brooks Marshall, Jnr. Snr. was a Commoner on the Bridge House Estates...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Clock Tower - Hampstead - new plaque
NW3, Heath Street
At British History On-line we read that it closed in 1923, not 1915 as per the plaque.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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