Explorer. Born Devon. He and his wife Isabel, have a very unusual tomb at St Mary Magdalen, Worple Road, Mortlake.
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Yury Gagarin
Astronaut. From Rianovosti: "Gagarin visited London in July 1961, three months after his legendary flight. He met with members of the Foundry Workers Union during his visit, as he had worked as a ...
1 memorial
William Braine
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Mary Kingsley
Traveller and ethnologist. Born Islington as Mary Henrietta Kingsley. Only after the death of her parents could she fulfil her aspirations of travel. Her first book, "Travels in West Africa", publi...
1 memorial
UK Antarctic Heritage Trust
Established to support the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust in raising funds for the conservation of historical explorers' huts in the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica, and to recognise and conser...
1 memorial
David Sims
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
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Mihaela Otto
Mihaela Draganescu was born on 18 December 1958 in Romania who came to the UK in 1984. She was briefly married but when the marriage broke down she retained her married surname of Otto. Living in M...
3 memorials
John Desmond Bernal, MA, FRS.
Crystallographer. John Desmond Bernal was born on 10 May 1901 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, the eldest of the five children of Samuel George Bernal (1864-1919) and Elizabeth Bernal née Mil...
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John Spedan Lewis
Retailer and industrial reformer. Born in Marylebone, the son of John Lewis. His second name was derived by reversing the names of Ann Speed, the maiden aunt who raised his father. He was given con...
1 memorial
National Children's Bureau
EC1, Wakley Street, 8
The inscription in the stone is merely functional but the overlapping children's heads adorning the entrance are a delight. The "hair" o...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Tsunami memorial
SW7, Cromwell Road, Natural History Museum, Darwin Centre garden
120-tonne block of granite, 4.1 metre cube with a corner removed. According to Handy Shipping Guide this was the "biggest transportatio...
157 subjects commemorated,
5 creators
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