Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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John Downing
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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 Francis Drake
Sea captain, explorer and pirate. Born in Crowndale, near Tavistock, Devon. He spent his formative years in the house of his cousin Sir John Hawkins and by 1565 was voyaging to Guinea and the Spani...
Thomas Johnson
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Joseph Andrews
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer 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
Thomas Watson
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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Samuel Lewis
Moneylender and philanthropist. A jew, born in a slum in Birmingham, who worked his way into being an established travelling jeweller by 1867, when he married and came with his wife, Ada, to London...
Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott
Lord Mayor of London from 1879 to 1880. Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. His son, George, was Lord Mayor from 1908 to 1909 and was the 1st Baronet Truscott of Oakleigh.
George Berridge
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
"Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster" - first line in Shakespeare's Richard II. Fourth son of Edward III. Younger brother to the Black Prince. Uncle to Richard II. Born in Ghent. Lived at th...
Incorporated Society of Musicians - London Section
Installers of very attractive plaques.
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