Naval officer. Born Ireland, Co. Wicklow. "Royal naval biography; or, Memoirs of ..." has a full biography. Lieut-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, where he died.
The Greenwich monument has his name spelt "Farebrother" but all other sources have "Fairbrother".
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Rear-Admiral, Sir William Fairbrother Carroll, KCB
The names on the monument are of men whose claim to immortality is their role...
Soldier. Born in Forest Hill, London. On 2nd May, 1915 near Ypres, the enemy was advancing behind a wave of poison gas. In spite of being almost overcome by the fumes, he turned his machine-gun aga...
One of the many battles of the English Civil War. King Charles's forces were advancing on London. Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex attempted to stop them at the Brentford bridge. A small pitched...
Colonel Donald James Matthew Blakeslee was born on 11 September 1917 in Fairport Harbor, Lake County, Ohio, USA, the eldest of the three sons of James Harold Blakeslee (1897-1953) and Maria Fanny B...
Dermatologist and author. He wrote 'A Biographical History of British Dermatology'. Our Picture Source and his obituary confirm he served during WW2 in the Royal Army Medical Corps for four years ...