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...
The church on the Mile End Road was opened in 1903, the school, shown in this...
Founded in 1561 by Sir Thomas White and originally at St Lawrence Pountney, E...
