Founded and then served for 46 years as Honorary Secretary and Chaplain of the German Hospital and was described in "Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660-1914" as the "soul of the hospital". Also Honorary Secretary of the committee that built the extension.
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Rev. A Walbaum
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German Hospital - Duke of Cambridge
The Duke's name crops up quite often around here. Not surprising given his Ge...
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East India Company
Formed as a trading company but went on to effectively rule India, on behalf of the British. Was involved in the slave trade.
Group, Commerce, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Indian Sub-continent
5 memorials
Camille Pissarro
French Impressionist painter. Born in the Danish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands) to a French father, a merchant, and Creole mother. With Danish nationality he avoided the Prussian invasion o...
Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Caribbean Islands, Denmark, France
4 memorials
John Landy
Athlete. Born John Michael Landy in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Forty-six days after Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four minute mile, he broke the record again. He is probably best remembere...
1 memorial
Julia Scurr
Born Julia Sullivan in Limehouse, married John Scurr in 1900. Politically active, campaigning for working women, the unemployed, women's suffrage. 1919 elected to Poplar Borough Council and was imp...
2 memorials
Caroline Beatrix Bridgeman
Political activist and churchwoman. Née Parker. Supported her husband's political campaign but also worked in her own right, for example as a BBC governor. She was invested as a Dame Commander of t...
1 memorial
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Freemason VCs - W6 - Johnson, Kerr, Lumsden
WC2, Great Queen Street, Freemasons' Hall
The Freemasons commissioned this memorial to mark the 300th anniversary of The United Grand Lodge of England in 2017 and the centenary of...
War dead, War served | WW1
4 subjects commemorated
4 subjects commemorated
Second Lieutenant James Clive Ellis
James Clive Ellis was born on 15 July 1898 in Glenfield, Leicestershire, the younger child of James Bancroft Ellis (1861-1911) and Ethel Sara Ellis née Plant (1866-1945). His birth was registered i...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
District Railway / Metropolitan District Railway
Formed to complete the 'inner circle' of the tube in London. This was effectively the southern section: Mansion House to Earl's Court and beyond. The tunnels were formed using the 'cut and cover'...
6 memorials
The Bell, Carter Lane
From this inn, on 25 October 1598, Richard Quiney wrote a letter to William Shakespeare. This letter, the only one addressed to Shakespeare that has survived, is held by the museum at Strafford. Th...
1 memorial
G. K. Chesterton
Writer. Born 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, as Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Best known for the Father Brown stories. He often wrote about religion and in 1922 converted to Roman Catholicism. In l...
4 memorials
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