Created when delegates from 22 clubs met at the Pall Mall Restaurant and rules were drawn up based on those of Rugby School.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Rugby Football Union
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Kenny Sansom
Footballer. Most of his professional career was spent playing for Arsenal Football Club, and until 2011 he was the most capped player for the England team. He went on to play for several other club...
1 memorial
Kehat Shorr
Shooting coach. Born in Romania. An expert marksman, he moved to Israel in 1963, training many young marksmen. He also trained the national team for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where along wi...
Person, Sport / Games, Tragedy, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Romania
1 memorial
George Lewis Rogers
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Brian Johnston
"Johnners", For nearly fifty years he was the voice of cricket on BBC television and radio. Born Hertfordshire. Died London.
1 memorial
Francis Morgan Ayodélé Thompson, CBE
Better known as Daley Thompson, he was a decathlete. Born Notting Hill or Worcester Park (sources differ). Olympic gold in 1980 and 1984. Not sure what the South Bank/Southwark connection might b...
1 memorial
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Geraldine Mary Harmsworth
Mother of Lord Rothermere. Born in Dublin as Geraldine Mary Maffett, the daughter of an Irish land agent. 1884 married a barrister, Alfred Harmsworth, and had a number of children: Alfred, Geral...
3 memorials
Greenwich Historical Society
From the Picture source: "The Greenwich Historical Society began life as the Greenwich Antiquarian Society in 1905, merging with the Lewisham Society in 1919 to become the Greenwich and Lewisham An...
1 memorial
Mary E. Nightingale
Associated with the Wesleyan Schools, Leswin Road, 1883. Because her first name is given rather than just an initial it's possible that Mary was a child in 1883, in which case perhaps she was a pup...
1 memorial
St Mary’s church, Greenwich
SE10, King William Walk, St Mary's Gate into Greenwich Park
The excellent Greenwich Phantom tells us that the footprint of the old church is shown "by a beech hedge, some of the foundation stones m...
1 subject commemorated
Black British Heritage
They have an address at 182 Hammersmith Road, but the only website we can find (Dec 2011) is in Japanese. Something fishy going on.
1 memorial
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