One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Jeanne Southwell
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Princess Royal Nurses Home
According to Time Magazine at the time this foundation stone was laid, summer...
Other Subjects
Charlotte Esther White
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 5. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
St Pancras
Christian orphan beheaded aged 14. Patron Saint of children, cramps, headaches, oaths, treaties, against false witness and against perjury.
David Copperfield Children's Library
Founded by the American Rev. J. Brett Langstaff. The picture is from 1947. The New York Times, 19 March 1922 carries a letter reporting on a performance of a play for the benefit of this library....
Beatrix Potter
Artist, writer and sheep breeder. Born Helen Beatrix Potter at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington where she lived in the third floor nursery until she was in her thirties. She used her second name ...
Person, Animals, Art, Children, Literature, Seriously Famous
Geoffrey Faithful Fortescue
Died aged 9. We believe this was the 'beloved son' of Lady Emily Fortescue, commemorated on the clock tower. See her page for the evidence.