In 2010 the remains of 1,356 paupers, cholera victims and foreign sailors were removed from the graveyard of All Saints Church (on the west side of Newby Place between the rectory and East India Road) to enable the development of Newby Place Health and Wellbeing Centre. The remains were transferred to Islington & St Pancras Cemetery, N2.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Burial remains from All Saints Church Poplar
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Removal of graveyard remains - All Saints Poplar
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Lanesborough House
Built by James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough. Converted into a hospital in 1733. Three-storey, red brick simple design. Wings were later added to the structure by architect Isaac Ware. Demoli...
2 memorials
Baynard’s Castle
There have been two buildings known as Baynard's Castle, on different sites. Just to the east of where Blackfriars station now stands Ralph Baynard erected a Norman fortification in about 1000. Th...
1 memorial
Trevor Burfield
Owner and/or manager of the development company Centremoor Ltd in 1972. Arranged for the erection of the replacement plaque commemorating Lenin, on 16 Percy Circus. Present at the unveiling. His c...
1 memorial
William Thomas
From St Lawrence Fountain: "Relatively little is known of the contractor for the fountain, William Thomas, other than he was based at Clipstone Street, Westminster. He was previously based from Pri...
1 memorial
Round Hill House
In living memory this was "very run down and some kind of Labour Party social club." Elsewhere: "The Sydenham and Forest Hill Social Club ... was in Round Hill House from the 1930s until, I suppos...
2 memorials
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Robert, Lord Clive, Clive of India
Soldier and administrator. Born Shropshire. With the East India Company he effectively founded the British Empire. Spent much of his adult life in India, making his fortune there and becoming Gover...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Bengal, India
2 memorials
E. H. Tyson
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Dr John Venn
Logician and philosopher. Born Hull where his father was vicar of a local parish. Grandson of Rev John Venn. Inventor of the Venn diagram. In 1888 he seems to have tired of logic and turned to ...
1 memorial
Horatio ('Horace') Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Writer and collector. Youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole. His gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto"' was published in 1764. But his passion was his gothic creation, his house at Strawberry Hill,...
5 memorials
Jno. Curtis
Clerk for the managers that ran the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital. May be "Jnd.", either way we can't think what it might stand for.
1 memorial
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