Resigned as Alderman on reaching the age of 70, as is traditional.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Alderman Robert Hall
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John Donne bust
The poetry on the base of the statue is from Donne’s 1613 poem ‘Good Friday—R...
Other Subjects
John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester
Born Yorkshire. Opposed Henry VIII's self-appointment as head of the Church of England. Result: decapitation on Tower Hill.
2 memorials
Andrew Sweet
Deputy Chairman of the Highways Sewers and Public Works Committee, St Pancras Vestry in the late 1800s.
1 memorial
Alderman Charles William Hovell
Member of Housing Committee, Diss Street 1922 and Housing Committee Parmiter Street, 1926. Member of the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Mayor of Bethnal Green 1924-27 (three terms).
4 memorials
Lionel Vincent Straker, C.C.
Chairman of Girdlers Hall Committee, 1960.
1 memorial
Alderman Charles Fisher Yates
Mayor of Hackney 1933-34. The picture shows him (the mayor on the left) at the 1934 ceremony to bury a 'time capsule', a brass canister, below the foundation stone of the current Town Hall in Mare ...
1 memorial