Australian explorer. Born Scotland. Trained as a civil engineer and aged 23 emigrated to Australia where 1858 - 62 he made 6 expeditions into the interior searching out new pastures and surveying the land. The first explorer to cross Australia - from North Adelaide to a point near Darwin, Adelaide has a map showing his route. His health was ruined and he returned to Britain in about 1862, dying, unmarried, at the house with the plaque.
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John McDouall Stuart
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John McDouall Stuart
John McDouall Stuart, 1815 - 1866, first explorer to cross Australia, lived a...
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John Murray
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
H. T. D. Le Vesconte
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
F. R. M. Crozier
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Richard Wall
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Thomas Darlington
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
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Sir Alexander Fleming
Born Lochfield, Scotland. Pharmacologist and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1927. However he did not realise the significance and it was not until 1940 that Florey and Chain demonstrat...
6 memorials
James Hudson Taylor
Born Barnsley, Yorkshire. Died Changsha, Hunan, China (340 miles north of Canton), where he was buried. English missionary to China. Founded the China Inland Mission in 1865 which at his death in...
1 memorial
Post Office Railway
The Post Office Railway carried post from Paddington Head Sorting office to Eastern Head Sorting Office in Whitechapel, a distance of 6½ miles (10.5km), with eight stations. Closed because it had b...
1 memorial
Edward Middleton Barry
Third son of Sir Charles Barry. Born 27 Foley Place. Work in London: St. Saviour's Church Hampstead, Charing Cross Hotel, new chambers at Inner Temple and at Middle Temple, the colonnade at Borough...
1 memorial
Guildhall - Wren bust
EC2, Guildhall Yard, Guildhall
The arcade contains four modern busts, left to right: Pepys Cromwell Shakespeare Wren and a statue of Whittington to the left.
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