Naval officer and administrator. Died of typhus at home in Lime Street. Some information at Pepys' Diary.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Col. Robert Slingsby
Commemorated ati
Pepys - Stew Lane
This page of Pepys' Diary is given at The Diary of Samuel Pepys with lots of ...
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F. Potter
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
B. D. Laughton
Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.
Major William Martin
See Operation Mincemeat for Major Martin's role in WW2. The body was identified in 1996 as that of Glyndwr Michael, a Welsh homeless man, but the Wikipedia page puts forward a number of other possi...
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Princess Royal Nurses Home
WC1, Guilford Street
According to Time Magazine at the time this foundation stone was laid, summer of 1933, the Princess Royal was suffering "a frantic debili...
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...
Princess Mary, Duchess of Teck
Born as Princess Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth in Hanover, Germany. Father was Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. Also known as Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge. Died White Lodge, Richmond...
Floods of 1953
From Thamesweb: "In January 1953, the east coast of England was devastated by some of the worst flooding in recent memory. A number of extreme weather events combined to cause major flooding in are...
Sir John Steell
Born John Robert Steell, Aberdeen. Queen Victoria's official sculptor in Scotland, his work includes the Walter Scott statue at the Scott Monument in Edinburgh and Robert Burns in Albert Square, Du...
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