Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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John Bate
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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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Sir Joseph Hooker
Botanist and explorer. Born Joseph Dalton Hooker, son of Sir William, at Halesworth, Suffolk. He travelled widely around the world, bringing back many species of plants to Britain. Became director ...
1 memorial
Mary Kingsley
Traveller and ethnologist. Born Islington as Mary Henrietta Kingsley. Only after the death of her parents could she fulfil her aspirations of travel. Her first book, "Travels in West Africa", publi...
1 memorial
William Orren
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
John Ratcliffe
Mariner and colonist. His family name appears to have originally been Sicklemore, and why he chose to call himself Ratcliffe remains a riddle. He was captain of the 'Discovery', one of three ships ...
1 memorial
Thomas Evans
Role on the lost expedition: Boy on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
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William Heath Robinson
Comic artist and illustrator. Born in Finsbury Park. He started his career as a book illustrator, and during WW1 began drawing cartoons of unlikely secret weapons. His later works of wonderfully co...
2 memorials
Highbury Manor
It was built for the Lord of the Priory of St John of Jerusalem. The site may have been used by the Romans as a summer camp. It was destroyed by the mob led by Jack Straw during the Peasants' Revol...
1 memorial
3 memorials
Geoffrey Finsberg
Conservative politician. Born London. Died Stockholm, there making a speech.
2 memorials
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