Born St James's Palace, the second and favourite son of George III. Card gambler. Fought a duel on Wimbledon Common. Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, 1795 - 1809 and 1811 - 1827. Died, heavily in debt, at the duke of Rutland's house, Arlington Street.
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Frederick, Duke of York
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Duke of York's column
Bronze statue by Westmacott of "The Grand Old Duke of York" of nursery rhyme ...
Mary Anne Clarke
Mary Anne Clarke, 1776 - 1852, mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York, li...
Other Subjects
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Lance Corporal Mills
Royal Engineer killed by an exploding bomb while assisting in the attempt to disarm it. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Lance Corporal Douglas Mills was born about 1...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Admiral Sir Caspar John
Born 18 Fitzroy Street. Pioneer in the fleet air arm. British first sea lord from 1960 -1963. Invested as Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath (G.C.B.) 1960. Died Hayle, Cornwall.
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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John Keats
Born 24 Moorfields Pavement Row, Finsbury. This was the Swan and Hoop pub, where his father worked as a stableman and later managed the inn. Baptised at St Botolphs. 1815-16 trained at Guy’s Hospit...
8 memorials
Ralph Beyer
From Birkbeck : "Sculptor, Ralph Beyer, who died in 2008 aged 86, fled from Nazi Germany arriving in England with his family in 1937 when he was 16 years old. His mother later returned to Germany ...
1 memorial
Avondale Park
W11, Walmer Road, The Lodge, Miss Delaney's Nursery School
From RBKC: "Avondale Park, at the top of Pottery Lane, was created in 1892 when the area that had been a huge fetid pool known as "the oc...
6 subjects commemorated
William Johnson Cory
NW3, Pilgrim's Lane, 8 (4 Rosslyn Villas)
William Johnson Cory, Ionicus, 1823 - 1892, teacher, scholar and poet. Lived and died in this house. An assistant master at Eton College ...
2 subjects commemorated,
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