Person    | Male  Born 1759  Died 22/7/1831

Captain William Browell

Captain William Browell

Naval officer.  1799, in command of the Sanspareil, was crippled in an accident, and rendered unfit for active service. RN Lieut-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1809 until his death.

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Captain William Browell

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Greenwich Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground

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E. Barnes

E. Barnes

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

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1 memorial
J. F. Collins

J. F. Collins

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Corporal Alfred Lee Hale

Corporal Alfred Lee Hale

Alfred Lee Hale was born on the 13 January 1883 in St Pancras, Middlesex (now Greater London), a son of Joseph Hale (1844-1898) and Ellen Louisa Hale née Gaymer (1849-1899). His birth was registere...

Person, Armed Forces, Belgium

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell

Army officer and founder of the boy scouts and girl guides. Born as Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell at 6 Stanhope Street, Paddington. His mother changed the family name to Baden-Powell after her hus...

Person, Armed Forces, Children, Community / Clubs, Seriously Famous, Afghanistan, India, Kenya, South Africa

4 memorials
Rear-Admiral, Sir Henry Hart, KCH

Rear-Admiral, Sir Henry Hart, KCH

Naval officer.  Born Sussex. Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital.  See Indefatigable for more information, but one paragraph there is particularly relevant to Greenwich Hospital: "Following his reti...

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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Great Conduit in Cheapside - blue

Great Conduit in Cheapside - blue

EC2, Cheapside, Tescos

The stone plaque is laid into the pavement.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
JMW Turner - WC2

JMW Turner - WC2

WC2, Maiden Lane, 21

There is a rather strange modern architectural sculpture in this courtyard (you can see the top of it to the left of our picture, behind ...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Ferdinand West VC

Ferdinand West VC

SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens

Reading right to left: De Pass; Rhodes-Moorhouse; Keysor; Campbell; Dunville; Colyer-Fergusson; Hewitt; Elliott-Cooper; Watson; Drummond;...

War served | WW1
1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn

Composer of the Classical period - prominent and prolific.  Born Austria as Franz Joseph Haydn.  Aged 6 he was sent away to train as a musician. Worked primarily for the wealthy Esterházy family.  ...

Person, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Austria

2 memorials