This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Stepney Historical Trust
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Captain Cook - The Highway
The plaque gives Cook's address as 126 Upper Shadwell. Horward's 1799 map gi...
Jack (Kid) Berg - Burlington Court
{Above a motif of boxing gloves and laurel wreath:} Jack (Kid) Berg, 1909 - 1...
Marine Police
The Latin motto "Primus Omnium" translates as "first of all", referring to th...
Sir William Perkin
Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS, discovered the first aniline dyestuff, March 1...
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Valeria Oliveira
One of a list of 26 researchers involved in researching Hester Leggatt's background.
Henry Hallam
Historian best known for his books on European history and English constitutional history.
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Sydney Monckton Copeman
Medical Scientist. Born as Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman in the cathedral close, Norwich. He was a medical inspector in the Local Government Board (forerunner to the Ministry of Health), where Sir...
Imperial Hotel, Russell Square
Designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll. The picture was taken in 1913 after the completion of the extension, which is the section on the left, to the north (2017: we now think the 'extension' was into t...
William Griggs
Photographer. Born at Woburn, where his father was a gate-keeper to the Duke of Bedford. At the age of 18 he came to London, and was employed in the Indian Court of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Hi...
Robert Browning
Poet and playwright. Born Camberwell. His works include ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’ and ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’. He fell in love with Elizabeth Barrett and married her secretly because of her ...
London School Board
Created out of the Elementary Education Act 1870. The LSB covered the same Inner London area as that of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The members of the LSB were directly elected. The LSB ens...
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