Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Gregory
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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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David Leys
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Captain William Bligh
Naval officer and colonial governor. Born in Plymouth. He served under Captain James Cook and was chosen to command the Bounty on a voyage to Tahiti to collect bread-fruit plants. On the return jo...
Person, Armed Forces, Exploring, Seriously Famous, Australia
Magnus Manson
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
John Sullivan
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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Sir Barnes Wallis
Designer and engineer. Born Barnes Neville Wallis in Ripley, Derbyshire. He was employed by Vickers for most of his working life and designed part of the R100 airship. His most famous achievement w...
Sir Allan Hume Nicholl CBE
Mayor of Lewisham for 4 successive terms, 1915 - 19. Chairman of the London Safety First Council and of the National Executive of the National Safety First Association. CBE. Knighted in the 1938 B...
George Alexander Gratton
Born on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent in 1808 to slave parents. Born with vitiligo, also known as piebaldism he was, as a baby, put on show in the capital, Kingstown. Aged 15 months he was ta...
Bud Flanagan
Born Reuben Weinthrop above his family fried fish shop in Hanbury Street, where the plaque now is. The first half of the Flanagan & Allen double act, with Chesney Allen. These two were also bot...
Philip Geddes
Journalist, 24. From Geddes Trust (previously geddesprize.co.uk): The awards are named after Philip Geddes, a member of St Edmund Hall {Oxford University} and a journalist of considerable promise. ...
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