One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Josephine Trotman
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Princess Royal Nurses Home
According to Time Magazine at the time this foundation stone was laid, summer...
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Landsbergs boy scouts
"Toynbee Hall (Routledge Revivals): The First Hundred Years" 1984, Asa Briggs and Anne Macartney provides: "Already in the 1890s, there had been increasing interest in what would now be called yout...
1 memorial
Coram's Fields
The memorial at the entrance to these fields tells how this playground came into existence. It is the only public space in London where adults are not allowed without children.
3 memorials
Holly Susan Whitlock
2015: Our colleague Andrew Behan has been register-diving again and writes: "I think that this three year old girl was Holly Susan Whitlock. The registers record her death in the Borough of Camden,...
1 memorial
Emily Yeates
Born Horton, daughter of William Wlllson Yeates. See there for information about her family. Buried in St Michaels churchyard Horton,13 February 1835.
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Islington Boat Club
The club has provided safe boating for thousands of youngsters on City Road Basin.
1 memorial
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Albert Clarke
Worked on the 1921-6 construction of the Harrow School War Memorial Building, probably leading the project.
1 memorial
Woolf Joel
Born Spitalfields. South African mining magnate and businessman. The web provides the following anecdote: Early in 1898, just before leaving for South Africa, Woolf gave a dinner party at the Sav...
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William Edward Forster
Born Dorset. Member of Parliament for Bradford, 1861- 1886, where there is another statue of him. Educational reformer. Died at 80 Eccleston Square.
Person, Education, Industry, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
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T/LFf. Michael Lyndon Evans
Firefighter who died as a result of a fire at Shannons Corner, New Malden.
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The Walkers of Southgate
Cricketing brothers. John (1826-1885), Alfred (1827-1870), Frederic (1829-1889), Arthur Henry (1833-1878), Vyell Edward (1837-1906), Russell Donnithorne (1842-1922) and Isaac Donnithorne (1844-1898...
1 memorial
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