Senior 4th Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website.
He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar Street, Southampton, SO14 7DW and on the Titanic Memorial Plinth in the Titanic Memorial Gardens, Donegal Square East, Belfast, BT1 5QS, that shows 1,512 names of those who died in the disaster.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Leonard Hodgkinson
The memorial was originally displayed in the foyer of the Institute of Marine...
Civil engineer. Born in Leicester. 1902 formed the firm Mott, Hay and Anderson. His many projects include extending the Central London Railway, the building of escalators on the London Underground ...
Pioneer of high pressure steam. Born in Illogan, Cornwall. In 1803 he drove a steam carriage from Holborn to Paddington, on the roads. Died a pauper at The Bull Hotel, Dartford, where he had starte...
Londonist have a piece on this early manifestation of the car and steam locomotive, rolled into one.
The stone was erected on the base of one of Baird's television masts. Our picture is taken from the History of Kingsbury Manor website wh...
"No greater honour..etc." is surely a quotation but we cannot source it.
The facade of this building tells the history of the school. Each of the 4 gable ends carries a plaque with a dated event, reading from l...
Designed by John Shaw, Jnr., even in its current rather dilapidated state, this delightful fountain puts other Victorian examples to shame.
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