Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajanus Augustus. Born Spain. Roman Emperor AD 98 - 117. His ashes are buried under Trajan's Column in Rome. Succeeded by Hadrian who built the wall that Trajan had proposed. We can't find any evidence that Trajan ever came to Britain.
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Emperor Trajan
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Emperor Trajan statue
{On a steel plaque attached to the base:} Statue believed to be of the Roman ...
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Sidly Effendi
Effendi, or Efendi, is merely a title of nobility and the name Sidly may well be just one spelling of the Turkish Ambassador's name. We can't identify him.
Sir Stafford Cripps
Politician and lawyer. Born Richard Stafford Cripps at 32 Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea, nephew of Beatrice Webb. He initially pursued a career in the law, but this was interrupted by the outbreak of w...
John T. Winkworth
Honourable Secretary of the Limehouse Library in 1900.
Ewan MacColl
Folk singer, songwriter, dramatist, Marxist. Born James Miller in Salford, Lancashire. Three wives: theatre director Joan Littlewood, movement teacher Jean Newlove (with whom he had Kirsty MacColl)...
Person, Literature, Music / songs, Politics & Administration, Theatre
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Robert Burns
Born Alloway, Ayrshire. Wrote in the Scots language, and also in a Scots dialect which is accessible to English speakers. Also collected traditional songs. Scots the world over celebrate his birth ...
A. Guttridge
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Celia Blairman House
E1, Folgate Street, 31
There is an almost identical plaque on Philip Blairman House in Elder Street.
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