Founder of Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Engineers. Born Lambeth and baptised in the church of St. Mary-at-Lambeth, August 10, 1779. After a distinguished career in Canada and in the Peninsular War, he was called out of retirement in 1826 and sent to Canada to build the 200 kilometre Rideau Canal waterway from Ottawa River to Lake Ontario. It opened in 1832. By retired to Frant, East Sussex, where he died.
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B. S. Savage
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War served, WW1
1 memorial
Royal Hospital Chelsea
A retirement and nursing home for British soldiers who are unfit for further duty due to injury or old age. They are popularly known as ‘Chelsea Pensioners’. Founded by King Charles II in 1682 and...
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Master-at-Arms John George Gale
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Flying Officer Hugh Graham Stanhope Wyrill, DFC
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War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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Mrs Iris Samuel, MBE, Deputy
1990 - awarded the MBE for charitable services to the City of London, where she is associated with Portsoken Ward. Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
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2 memorials
Waterloo Station - 175 years
SE1, Waterloo Station
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Alan D. Savage
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