One of the most prestigious American universities, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Named after its first benefactor John Harvard.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Harvard University
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Queen's Head Inn, Southwark
The "Queen's Head Inn", owned by the family of John Harvard, founder of Harva...
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Marjorie Hewson
Nursery nurse. She worked for over forty years at Christ Church School, in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, (the area in which she grew up and lived herself). A popular character, remembered by many for h...
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Girton College
England's first residential college for women. Established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon. Originally located at Benslow House in Hitchin as it was felt to be less controversial not t...
1 memorial
William Gilpin
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Caroline DeCamp Benn
Educationalist and writer. Born Cincinnati, Ohio. She came to Britain in 1948 to study at Oxford. There she met Tony Benn, who became her husband. An advocate of comprehensive education, she co-fou...
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1 memorial
Hirobumi Ito
Became a student at UCL in 1863. The picture source gives details of his assasination by a Korean nationalist. Picture source gives details of this.
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C. Harman Wigan
Director of Vinot Cars Ltd. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Cecil Harman Wigan was born on 7 June 1874 in Mortlake, Surrey, a son of James Wigan and Maria Branley He...
1 memorial
Carter and Company / Poole Pottery
Ceramic tile manufacturers. Founded by Jesse Carter, a builders’ merchant and ironmonger from Surrey. It was later renamed as the Poole Pottery. The Carter company produced much of the ceramic til...
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2 memorials
Doris Vautro
EC1, Benjamin Street, St John's Garden
Rosalie's tree is the nearest, Doris's is in front of the first silver birch.
1 subject commemorated
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