Tory politician. Born at Knowsley Park, Lancashire. Overcame his early boisterous jollity and three times became Prime Minister, each time a coalition caretaker between the giants: Peel and Gladstone. Longest-serving party leader in modern British history (1846 - 68). Abolished slavery throughout the Empire. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. His grandfather founded the Derby race-meeting.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Edward Geoffrey Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Commemorated ati
Derby statue
The relief panels, by Montford, on the four sides of the plinth show scenes f...
Great Exhibition and Prince Albert
Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...
Other Subjects
Charles Mann
Co-church warden of St Botolph Without Aldersgate in 1868.
1 memorial
Edward Williams
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
1 memorial
Sir Christopher John Benson, OAM, DL, FRICS
Serial Chairman. Chair of the Soho Housing Association in 1990. In view of the number of companies and groups that he's run, we're pretty sure we've got the right man. He was born on 20 July 1933 ...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, Liveries & Guilds, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
General Wladyslaw Sikorski
Prime Minister of the war-time London-based Polish Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish armed forces. In his 1970 play, Soldiers, Rolf Hochhuth accuses Churchill of murdering Sikorski. ...
2 memorials
Hackney Town Hall
The site of an early town hall ('vestry office' in its early days), is still occupied by the building that was used. This is the building in front of St Augustine's - behind the buses in our photo ...
1 memorial
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Mel Calman
N16, Linthorpe Road, 64
The brown plaque is difficult to see on the red bricks. It's in the arch above the ground floor bay window. (When plotting this pin we w...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Croydon tram derailment
The tram carrying 69 passengers, had left New Addington bound for Wimbledon. At 6.07 a.m. as it approached Sandilands station on a sharp bend, it overturned on its right side. Seven passengers were...
2 memorials
Jubilee Walkway, Queen's Walk
SE1, Queen's Walk
This part of the Silver Jubilee Walkway opened by Her Majesty the Queen 7th December 1988. Silver Jubilee Walkway 1977 The Queen's Walk
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Wilfred Owen
Poet and soldier. Born Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, near Oswestry, Shropshire. In 1915 he enlisted in the Artists Rifles Officers' Training Corps, eventually being commissioned as a second lieutenan...
Person, Armed Forces, Poetry, Seriously Famous, France, Scotland
1 memorial
Henry Frankland
One of five fire-watchers killed on the night bombs fell on Chelsea Old Church and the surrounding area. Carpenter employed by the Westminster Carriage Company, 48 Old Church Street. Not an offici...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
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