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London Rowing Club

Categories: Sport / Games

Founded in 1856, for the purpose of winning medals at The Henley Royal Regatta, and is regarded as one of the most exclusive and successful rowing clubs in Britain.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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London Rowing Club

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Steve Fairbairn

{Medallion on an obelisk, with a portrait:} Steve Fairbairn, 1862 1938. {Pl...

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People's Palace

People's Palace

Proposed by Walter Besant, the first People's Palace was built by the Beaumont Trustees, ‘Unitarian philanthropists’, to replace Beaumont's Philosophical Institution which had been in Beaumont Squa...

Building, Education, Sport / Games, Theatre

3 memorials
Stanley Hallam Rothwell

Stanley Hallam Rothwell

Body builder and artists' model who posed for a number of statues on display in London. Rothwell was brought to our attention by Broderick D.V. Chow in this Londonist article. This, together with ...

Person, Art, Artists' Model, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Sam Bartram

Sam Bartram

Goalkeeper and football manager. After school he became a miner, and played in non-league football. In 1934, he was spotted by a scout from Charlton Athletic and was offered a place on the team, pl...

Person, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Ebenezer Cobb Morley

Ebenezer Cobb Morley

Born Hull and moved to Barnes in 1858.  Keen rower and footballer and for both sports he founded, played and officiated in clubs in the Barnes and Mortlake area. He proposed the founding of the Foo...

Person, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Francis Cranmer Penrose

Francis Cranmer Penrose

Architect, archaeologist, astronomer and rower.  Born Lincolnshire.  Surveyor to the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral 1852 - 1899.  Died Wimbledon.

Person, Architecture, History, Science, Sport / Games

2 memorials

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Flight Lieutenant Coburn Clark King

Flight Lieutenant Coburn Clark King

Coburn Clark King was born on 28 April 1908 in Oregon, Holt County, Missouri, USA the youngest of the six children of Alonzo Wilmer King (1850-1930) and his second wife Julia Ellen King née Thuma (...

Person, Armed Forces, USA

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Harold Frank Ricketts

Harold Frank Ricketts

For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria

Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria

Shortly before this event, in September 1896 Victoria had become the longest-reigning monarch in British history, beating George III, the previous holder. Victoria reigned 1837 - 1901, 64 years.

Event, Royalty

8 memorials
Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith

WC1, Doughty Street, 14

LCC Sydney Smith, 1771 - 1845, author and wit, lived here.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Corporation of the City of London

Corporation of the City of London

The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London'. In 2006 the name was changed from just 'Corporation of London' to disti...

Group, Commerce, Politics & Administration

181 memorials