This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Theodore Watts
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Rossetti fountain
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...
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Jonathan Rashleigh
Born Wiltshire into a wealthy family. First class cricketer. Married Mary Pole Stuart in 1843 and Jane Elizabeth Pugh in 1869. In 1873 he was listed as the largest landowner in Cornwall. Died Menab...
friends and followers of Wilfred Lawson
Lawson's friends and followers erected the memorial to him in Embankment Gardens.
William Abbot
Benefactor. The 'Carpinter' on the plaque is thought to indicate his livelihood rather than his surname.
John Cyril Lees Collingham
John Cyril Lees Collingham was born in 1865, the second of the six children of Joseph Mawer Collingham (1832-1902) and Jane Eliza Collingham née Lees (1836-1919). His birth was registered in 2nd qu...
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C. Tapp
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Cromwell's body
WC1, Red Lion Street, Old Red Lion
The plaque gives the date of Cromwell's death rather than the date of his exhumation, three years later. And the fact of the dismemberme...
Lily Pond
WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens
Buxton seems to have presented the pond the year before he became Chairman. This is unusual, presumably because it looks a little like th...
HMS Beagle
A Cherokee-class brig-sloop, launched from the Woolwich Dockyard. She was adapted as a survey barque and took part in three expeditions, the second of which was the voyage on which the young Charle...
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