Born near Barnstaple, Devon. From the picture source website: "7 years 2nd Life Guards, London. Licencee Hare & Hounds South Molton & then ran Clockmaker & Gunsmith shop in East St. ( now part of Tiverton Inn). Father of William Mark Webber, Bailiff & museum founder member. 'G W when a boy of 16yrs old. Height 6 ft. Weight 13st & 8lbs. A fine lad'. Model for the Lifeguard at base of Wellington's statue in Hyde Park.
Note: we know of three other soldiers who also did some modelling - see Dudley.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
John Galliford Webber
Unusually the model for this statue is known: Webber. Our thanks to his grea...
Admiral. The date given is his baptism, in Bridgwater, Somerset where there is now a museum and a statue. First fought for Cromwell in the army and was then appointed "General at Sea". 1652-3 he wa...
Sailor. Born Richard Been Stannard. During the evacuation of Namsos in April to May 1940, his ship, HMT Arab survived thirty-one bombing attacks in five days. On one occasion, he and two of his cre...
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
First proposed in 1848, the gestation of the NT is complex (see the NT's own site). The first site for the NT was acquired in 1913, immediately behind the British Museum, at the corner of Gower Str...
Boy Telegraphist on H.M.S. Shark, forces number J/81802. He died, aged 17, when his ship was torpedoed at the start of the Battle of Jutland. His number on the handwritten entry on the Blackheath W...
The Picture source and Transpontine explain that Pope was a local activist and was greatly valued by those who knew him. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Death registration records provide th...
Radical, MP and temperance advocate, nicknamed "Dry Wilf". Second Baronet of Brayton.Member of Parliament for Carlisle, Cockermouth, Camborne, 1859-1906. President of the United Kingdom Alliance...
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