Cricketer, whose real name was Bripumyarrimin. He was a member of the Australian Aboriginal cricket team that toured England in 1868. He died from tuberculosis and was buried at Victoria Park Cemetery. Unusually, this cemetery was never consecrated and was eventually turned into a park (now known as Meath Gardens).
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Founded by John Fleming and A. F. "Peggy" Bettinson. First president Hugh Cecil Lowther, Fifth Earl of Lonsdale. It became the home of modern glove boxing, with bouts taking place in silence, after...
Often referred to as 'Gooners', being a play on the team's nickname of the 'Gunners'.
Born Liverpool. West End theatre producer and chairman of Everton Football Club.
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
A race on the River Thames, now run annually between Oxford and Cambridge universities. It was started by Charles Merivale, a student at Cambridge and Charles Wordsworth from Oxford. The gruelling ...
