Europe suffered a number of bubonic plaque epidemics from 1347 – 1750. The last major outbreak in England was in 1665-6 and killed about 100,000 people, 20% of London’s population at the time. It was already mainly over by the time of the Great Fire. (A rather extreme example of the definition of history: One damn thing after another.) On the burial register at St Olaves, Hart Street are the names of 365 plaque victims.
Historic UK have produced a map of London plague pits.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Great Plague
'The Uncommerical Traveller' was the name of articles that Dickens wrote for ...
Surgeon. Born Russell Claude Brock at 840 Old Kent Road, London. While working in America he developed an interest in thoracic surgery. He pioneered several new techniques, including open-heart sur...
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1909-1951. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Formed as the London Refraction Hospital (or the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians), became the Institute of Optometry in 1988.
Born Melbourne, Australia but the family returned to Scotland when he was 5 . Pathologist and microbiologist, investigated sleeping sickness.
Born Glyde, County Louth, Ireland as Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue. Elected to parliament as a liberal in 1847 and rose to prominence under Gladstone, but fell from grace over the question ...
The masons did very well out of the post-fire rebuilding of London. From their website: "The focus of our Livery Company is to preserve and encourage the use of natural stone in the built environme...
Forgive us for the length of this entry. The history of the various buildings is complicated. In 2015 the Buddists very kindly allowed us to look around their building and that resolved most of our...
Founded in 1829 by Robert Peel under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 and on 26 September of that year, over 1,000 men were sworn in in the grounds of the Foundling Hospital. (From Sarah Wise's boo...
Socialist and pacifist. Born Ada Brown at Raunds, Northamptonshire. She joined the West London Mission to work among the London poor, and in 1897 transferred to the Bermondsey Settlement, where she...
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