Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Elizabethan seafarer. With Peter Hill he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers. In the nearby church of St Mary the Virgin there is a brass plate commemorating 'Peter Hills, Mariner, one of the Elder Brothers of the Company of the Trinity, and Master of Trinity House in 1593'.
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Robert Bell
{On the plaque between the two charity scholars:} St Mary Rotherhithe free sc...
Founded near what is now the Barbican. One of the oldest girls' schools in t...
Founded in 1842 by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and initially ...
