In 1714 John Michele gave the ground to St John’s Church in St John’s Square for use as a graveyard. About 100 years later Rev. William Dawson arranged that the church donate the graveyard as a public garden. The north side of Benjamin Street used to be lined with buildings making the burial ground an enclosed square.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
St John's Clerkenwell graveyard & garden
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St John's Garden
S. John's Clerkenwell This consecrated graveyard, the property of S. John's ...
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Chelsea Physic Garden
Originally established in 1673 as The Apothecaries Garden. The word ‘physic’ in this context means ‘healing’. In 1983 the garden became a registered charity and opened to the public for the first t...
Harold Ainsworth Peto
Born in Suffolk, son of Sir Samuel.
St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, churchyard garden
Churchyard closed for burials and given to the Vestry of Bermondsey on 17 May 1882, it was opened to the public on 28 February 1883.
Thomas Fairchild
Text transcribed of the information board (which itself credits the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography): Thomas Fairchild was born in May 1667. In 1690 he established himself as a nurseryman ...
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Our Lady of Willesden - shrine
NW10, Nicoll Road, 1, Our Lady of Willesden RC church
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, while not named on the memorial, is alluded to, with the date 1538. We note that the text gives Escr...
Lewis Cubitt
Architect. Younger brother of Thomas. Designed King's Cross station, the Great Northern Hotel and the granary building just to the north in the King’s Cross railway lands, all now restored. The...
Sir David Attenborough
Broadcaster and naturalist. Born in Isleworth, West London. He joined the B.B.C. in 1952. His first major natural history series was 'Zoo Quest' in 1954. Appointed controller of BB2 television in 1...
John Heminge
Fellow actor and friend of William Shakespeare and Henry Condell. Heminge and Condell had been co-partners with Shakespeare in the Globe Theatre. On his death the plays existed only in the form of...
Thomas Faryner and his shop
Born 1615-6, Thomas Faryner (or Farriner) joined the Baker's Company in 1637, and by 1649 had his own bakery/shop/home on Pudding Lane. It seems that someone failed properly to extinguish a fire in...
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