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Charles Best

Categories: Exploring, Tragedy

Charles Best

Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.

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Charles Best

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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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Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh

Courtier, explorer, author and puddle-coverer.  Born Devon.  Became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I and explored Virginia, America, for her, enabling its colonisation.  Briefly imprisoned in the T...

Person, Exploring, Poetry, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, USA

3 memorials
Thomas Johnson

Thomas Johnson

Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial
Edward Little

Edward Little

Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial
William Bell

William Bell

Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.

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1 memorial
David Leys

David Leys

Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial

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John Birnie Philip

John Birnie Philip

John Birnie Philip was born on 23 November 1824 in London, the third son of the five children of William Philip (1781-1865)  and Elizabeth Philip née Rhind (b.1786). His father was a tailor and he ...

Person, Sculpture

61 memorials
Edgar Kail

Edgar Kail

SE22, Edgar Kail Way, Champion Hill Stadium

Our photograph of the Lorraine Wilson plaque was taken before the foliage started obscuring it.

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
St James's

St James's

In the 1660s Henry Jermyn was given the right by Charles II to develop an area carved out of the royal parks. One of the few areas in London that is clearly defined geographically, it is bounded by...

Place, Property

1 memorial
National Portrait Gallery - Holbein

National Portrait Gallery - Holbein

WC2, Charing Cross Road

This building, 1896, designed by Ewan Christian, has 18 busts contained in medallions around the top of the facades. Starting at the east...

1 subject commemorated
Brunel statue - Paddington

Brunel statue - Paddington

W2, Departure Road, Paddington Station

This belongs to the select group of seated London statues - see Peabody. The same sculptor has a standing statue of Brunel in Bristol, a...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator