First chairman of the Creekmouth Preservation Society.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
First chairman of the Creekmouth Preservation Society.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Historian, essayist, poet. Born Leicestershire but brought up in the Clapham home. Spent four years (1834 - 8) as an administrator in India, during which he showed little interest in Indian cultu...
12 years President of the Royal Geographic Society. Born at Stillingfleet, Yorkshire. Drowned crossing a river in Peru.
Born Islington. Ecclesiastical historian and poet. At Pembroke College, Oxford, he became one of the ‘Birmingham Group’ along with William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. He was considered for Poe...