Born Cheltenham. One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Pole. Cheltenham honours Wilson with a statue on the Promenade and an exhibition in the town museum.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson
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Captain Scott statue
Sculpted by Kathleen Scott, his widow. There is a replica, in Christchurch, N...
Henry Robertson Bowers - SW16
{Beneath a photograph of Bowers:} Henry Robertson "Birdie" Bowers, 1883 - 191...
Other Subjects
Amy Johnson
Pioneering pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, she set many long-distance records during the 1930s. Born Yorkshire. ...
John Murray
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
William Moorcroft
Pioneer veterinary surgeon, Asian explorer. Born Lancashire. First Englishman to qualify as a vet, in France, during a revolution. He set up in practice in Oxford Street, creating a horse hosp...
Person, Animals, Exploring, Medicine, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Tibet, Uzbekistan
Edward Little
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
William Heather
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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Bernard Joseph Brown, CBE, JP
Member of the Joint Co-ordinating Committee in 1982 for opening Tower Bridge to the public. Mayor of Hillingdon 1969-1970. Bernard Joseph Brown was born on 27 February 1916, his birth being regis...
Person, Armed Forces, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration
Picasso
WC2, Floral Street, 51
Picasso worked here for 2 months in the studio of the Diaghilev's set-painters, Vladimir and Elizabeth Polunin.
Edith Garrud
N1, Thornhill Square, 60
Edith Garrud, 1872 - 1971, the suffragette that knew jiu-jitsu lived here. Islington People's Plaque London Borough of Islington
Sir Henry Wood
Conductor and composer. The first British-born career conductor. Born in London. He founded the promenade concerts in 1895 at the Queen's Hall. When this was destroyed in the Blitz the concerts ...
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