Admiral and hydrographer (map making for sailors). Developed the Beaufort Scale (for winds) in 1805. Born Co. Meath, Ireland. He kept journals, written in code, and these reveal that, as a widower in his sixties, his relationship with his sister, always close, became incestuous for three years, until he married again, to his step-niece. Died Brighton.
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Sir Francis Beaufort
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Sir Beaufort
London County Council Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774 - 1857, Admiral and hydrogr...
Other Subjects
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lieutenant Edward Ernest Grimwade
Edward Ernest Grimwade was born on 16 December 1885 in Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire, the third of the four children of Sidney Richard Grimwade (1854-1934) and Minnie Ellen Grimwade née Thompson (18...
War dead, WW1
2 memorials
G. F. Satchell
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
G. T. S. Baxter
Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: George Thomas Stanley Baxter was born on 23 November 1901 in Sheerness, Kent, the eldest son and the second of the four children of George Baxter (18...
War served, WW1
1 memorial
James Richard Stanhope
He served with the Grenadier Guards in the Second Boer War. Entering the House of Lords on the death of his father, he became 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 7th Earl Stanhope.
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, South Africa
1 memorial
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War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Councillor Paul Matthews
Deputy Mayor of Islington and Vice-Chair of Leisure Services until September 1991. Instrumental in the restoration of Grimaldi's grave.
1 memorial
1 subject commemorated
Mary Thornycroft
Sculptor. Born Norfolk but in 1823 her family moved to London, 56 Albany Street. Her father, John Francis, was a sculptor and she worked with him as assistant and pupil in Albany Street. In 1840 sh...
2 memorials
Edward Atkinson
Chairman of the Bridge House Estates Committee in 1886.
1 memorial