From Yorkshire. MP for Scarborough and then Knaresborough. Colonel of a regiment of foot in Cromwell's Parliamentary army, governor of Gloucester and one of the signatories to the death warrant of Charles I. Buried Westminster Abbey. When Charles II was restored to the throne he ordered the disinterment of the bodies of Oliver Cromwell and his supporters, including Constable, and their reburial in an unmarked pit in St Margaret's churchyard, Westminster.
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Sir William Constable
Commemorated ati
Reburied parliamentarians
When Charles II was restored to the throne he issued Royal Warrant, dated 9 S...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Harry Norton Schofield, VC
Captain in the Royal Field Artillery. Awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 15th December 1899 at the Battle of Colenso during the Second Boer War.
War served, Other war
1 memorial
General Sir Philip Chetwode
Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode, 7th Baronet of Oakley, GCB, OM, GCSI, KCMG, DSO, GCStJ. Senior Army officer. Served in the Second Boer War and in WW1, on the Western fro...
2 memorials
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
E1, Brick Lane, 91, Old Truman Brewery
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1786 - 1845, anti-slavery campaigner, lived and worked here. English Heritage
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Christopher John Turner CBE
British colonial administrator and diplomat. Born Kingston upon Thames. Joined the Colonial Service in Tanganyika as a District Officer in 1958 and become the youngest District Commissioner in Afr...
Group, Politics & Administration, Africa, Caribbean Islands, China/Hong Kong
1 memorial
Gavin Ewart
SW15, Lower Richmond Road, Kenilworth Court
Gavin Ewart, 1916 - 1995, noted poet, FRSL, lived at Kenilworth Court. The Putney Society
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Tower Liberty
The area in and around the Tower which was free from the jurisdiction of the City of London. Initially the Liberties of the Tower were restricted to the area within its walls and the land on Tower ...
2 memorials
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