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...
William Jerry
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Edmund Hoar
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
James Reid
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
William Wentzall
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
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John Desmond Bernal, MA, FRS.
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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...
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...
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...
South Place Chapel
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