Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Bailey
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John Franklin statue
{On the front of the plinth:} To the great arctic navigator and his brave co...
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James Fitzjames
Role on the lost expedition: Captain on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Admiral Arthur Phillip
Founder and first governor of Australia. Born in the ward of Bread Street. Entered the Royal Navy 1753. In 1787 he led a fleet of 11 ships, with a complement of four companies of marines as well a...
George H. Hodgson
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
William Orren
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
William Moorcroft
Pioneer veterinary surgeon, Asian explorer. Born Lancashire. First Englishman to qualify as a vet, in France, during a revolution. He set up in practice in Oxford Street, creating a horse hosp...
Person, Animals, Exploring, Medicine, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Tibet, Uzbekistan
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Cynthia Jarrett
Mother of Floyd Jarrett, who had been arrested and charged by the police for theft and assault. Although he had been released, the police later decided to search his mother's home. Mrs Jarrett coll...
Eagle House - Clapham
Country house built by Benjamin Bond, when Clapham was fashionable for out-of-town residences. After 1889 the estate was sold and the main house and many of the other buildings were pulled down. ...
Rosalie Drury Snr.
Born Rosalie Sawyer on 11 March 1887 in Hoxton, the eldest of the eight children of William Vernon Sawyer (1863-1939) and Amelia Emma Sawyer née Cooksey (1864-1901). Her father was a Mattress Maker...
Henry White
Edited the Sunday Times, from the first edition in 1822.
Michael Faraday
Experimental physicist, especially electro-magnetics (remember Faraday's Law?). Born in Newington Butts but brought up near Oxford Street. Trained as a bookbinder and here he was given tickets to s...
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