Cousin to the wife of Captain James Cook, with whom he sailed to the South Pacific. Inherited Merton Abbey in the 1820s. His great nephew, J. Mackerell, gave land to commemorate Nelson.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Isaac Smith
"The death" to which this inscription refers is Nelson's, so the gift was mad...
Explorer. Born Devon. The first European, while on an expedition with Richard Burton to East Africa in 1858, to discover Lake Victoria. On a subsequent journey with James Grant in 1862, he confirme...
A parishioner or member of the congregation of St Matthias, N16, who died in WW1.