First Prime Minister of Great Britain. An early political victim of satire, the target of Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Hogarth and Thomas Gay. Walpole responded by setting up the office of the Lord Chamberlain to vet all new plays before performance. This censorship remained in place until the office was abolished in 1968. Father of Horace.
Born Norfolk. Died London.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Robert Walpole
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Fountain Tavern
In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the politic...
Robert & Horace Walpole
Greater London Council Sir Robert Walpole, 1676 - 1745, Prime Minister, and ...
St Margaret's new tower - 1736
We thank David Hopkins, our Latin consultant, for yet again providing the Lat...
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Captain Henry Penton, MP
MP for Winchester who gave his name to the Pentonville area of London by building in the late 1700s The Penton Estate.
1 memorial
Henry Spicer (stationery)
Born Islington into the stationery family. Trustee of Islington Union Chapel. MP for Islington South. 1885-6. Henry Spicer was the eldest of the ten children of Henry S. J. Spicer (1801-1877) a...
1 memorial
James Chadwick
Inhabitant of Westminster and Governor of the Emery Hill Almshouses. Husband of Hannah Sara Chadwick. Died before 1850.
1 memorial
1 memorial
London County Council
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...
279 memorials
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Frederick Parslow VC
N1, Islington Green
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War dead | WW1
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
QPR in the Community Trust
Charity. Founded to use the power of the Queen's Park Rangers football club to forge connections with its community.
1 memorial
WW1 obelisk - E8
E8, Haggerston Road, Stonebridge Common, Duke of Wellington pub
We found the inscription text at IWM. It's from a report of the unveiling in the Hackney and Kingsland Gazette 23 February 1921.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Thomas Crapper
SE20, Thornsett Road, 12
Thomas Crapper, 1837 - 1910, engineer, developer of the controlled flow cistern lived here. The London Borough of Bromley
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Pimlico District Heating Undertaking refurbished
SW1, Churchill Gardens Road
This strange structure is an accumulator, basically a huge hot water tank, like you may have in your house somewhere in a nice warm cupbo...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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