Clerk for the Haberdashers Company in 1826-8, at least.
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Hambly Knapp
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Aske's Hospital - left - 1828
Note that the plaque says that not only was a new building erected but also t...
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William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke
Nobleman, politician, and courtier. Herbert's first wife, Anne Parr, was a sister of Queen consort Catherine Parr, sixth wife to Henry VIII. Guardian of the young Edward VI, by whom he was created...
1 memorial
League of Nations
Founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. At its height, it had 58 member states. Although achieving much in its early years, it was unable to prevent the aggress...
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
Lewisham District Board of Works
Lewisham was a local government district within the metropolitan area of London. It was formed by the Metropolis Management Act 1855, and was governed by the Lewisham District Board of Works, which...
1 memorial
Gerald Clarkson
Founding Master of the Worshipful Company of Firefighters. Buckingham Covers has a short biography.
1 memorial
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Richard Wyche, Vicar of Deptford
Lollard heretic. Vicar of Harmondsworth Middlesex and of St Nicholas Deptford. He followed the Lollard doctrine which the authorities opposed and so he was burnt at the stake on Tower Hill for her...
1 memorial
Vicar's Oak
SE19, Crystal Palace Parade, Entrance to Crystal Palace Park
There are identical plaques on both columns at the entrance to the park.
1 subject commemorated
Sir Christopher Wren
Born East Knoyle, Wiltshire, died London. Designer of 54 London churches, of which 13 were destroyed in the Blitz. Part of one of his churches, St Antholin, has ended up in an unexpected location...
38 memorials
John Dixon
Civil Engineer from Newcastle. Freemason. His brother, Waynman, was an engineer and an Egyptologist so was used on the project to bring Cleopatra's Needle to London. There is a legend that Waynman ...
1 memorial
HMS Sovereign of the Seas
SE18, Wellington Street, Greenwich Town Hall
The text names Phineas Pett as the builder of this ship, but Wikipedia gives "... This was supervised by Peter Pett ... guided by his fat...
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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