Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Alexander Paterson
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John Franklin statue
{On the front of the plinth:} To the great arctic navigator and his brave co...
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Thomas Armitage
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Samuel Honey
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Celia Fiennes
Traveller and diarist. Born near Salisbury. Moved to join a sister's family in London in 1691. She explored England on horse-back at a time when travel was difficult and particularly so for a wo...
Samuel Brown
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Captain William Bligh
Naval officer and colonial governor. Born in Plymouth. He served under Captain James Cook and was chosen to command the Bounty on a voyage to Tahiti to collect bread-fruit plants. On the return jo...
Person, Armed Forces, Exploring, Seriously Famous, Australia
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer. Born as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart at 9 Getreidegasse, Salzburg in modern day Austria. (Amadeus was a sort of nickname). His father, Leopold was a prominent musici...
Tower of London execution site - c.1910
EC3, Tower Green, Tower of London
This image came from Twitter via Londonist, and from the children's clothes must be about 1910. 2020: Terje Hartberg contacted us via Tw...
Carol Paula Chapman
Trustee, fundraiser and volunteer of the Charles Dickens Museum. The 2004 book 'Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of His Informal Language' by Norman Francis Blake was dedicated "In...
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