Person    | Male  Born 1491  Died 1547

King Henry VIII

Categories: Royalty, Seriously Famous

Son of Henry VII. Born Born Greenwich Palace, as the spare, not the heir but his brother Arthur predeceased him and their father, aged 15, but not before marrying Catherine of Aragon, who later in 1509 was crowned with Henry as his (first) queen. 6 wives. Father of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.

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King Henry VIII

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49 Bankside

Here lived Sir Christopher Wren during the building of St Pauls Cathedral. He...

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Black Friar pub

The plaque is a perfectly nice pub plaque but the pub is adorned with many lo...

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Brooke House

Wikipedia and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography both give De Vere's...

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Drapers' Hall

Drapers' Hall On this site, once part of the Augustine Priory, Thomas Cromwel...

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Forest Hill mural

{Panel 1:} A Brief Local History In medieval times this area was known as The...

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Queen Victoria's first visit to the City of London (as queen)

Queen Victoria's first visit to the City of London (as queen)

In the Temple Bar ceremony the Queen, or King, stops so that the Lord Mayor of London can presents the Sword of State as a sign of loyalty. After the Temple Bar was removed this ceremony continued ...

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H.S.H. Prince Francis of Teck, GCVO,  DSO
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Tyburn Manor House

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Used by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I as a hunting lodge.

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Queen Elizabeth I

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1 memorial
Ken Friar

Ken Friar

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1 memorial
Arts Council of England / Great Britain

Arts Council of England / Great Britain

1940 the Committee for Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) was set up by Royal Charter.  About 1946 it became the Arts Council of Great Britain and in 1994 it was split into national bodies,...

Group, Art

15 memorials
Royal Mail

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Before the 2012 Olympics started the Royal Mail committed to turn a red post box gold for each British Gold medal, Olympic and Paralympic.  In the event this meant that over 100 boxes turned colour...

Group, Transport

14 memorials
Chaplain 4th Class, The Reverend Cyril Bernard Wilson Buck, M.C., B.A.

Chaplain 4th Class, The Reverend Cyril Bernard Wilson Buck, M.C., B.A.

Cyril Bernard Wilson Buck was born on 1 June 1880 in West Ham, Essex (now Greater London), the youngest of the ten children of William Richard Buck (1837-1927) and Alice Emmeline Buck née Wilson (1...

Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Religion, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial