Explorer. Born Devon. He and his wife Isabel, have a very unusual tomb at St Mary Magdalen, Worple Road, Mortlake.
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Drake Navigators Guild
The Drake Navigators Guild is the historical research group which has used multi-disciplinary methods to research Francis Drake’s visit to the west coast of North America in 1579 and related mariti...
1 memorial
William Jerry
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Edmund Hoar
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
James Reid
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
William Wentzall
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
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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...
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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
South Place Chapel
A radical nonconformist congregation, led by William Johnson Fox moved from Bishopsgate premises into this purpose-built Chapel at South Place, Finsbury. In 1926 the South Place Ethical Society sol...
1 memorial
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