Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas Armitage
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John Franklin statue
{On the front of the plinth:} To the great arctic navigator and his brave co...
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Henry Wilks
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Sir Martin Frobisher
Privateer, explorer, and naval commander. Born Normanton, Yorkshire, birth date approximate. Aged 15 sent to London to learn a trade at his uncle's, who was a merchant adventurer. Frobisher expl...
Robert Golding
Role on the lost expedition: Boy on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Born Kilkee, county Clare, Ireland. He led several Antarctic expeditions and located the South magnetic pole during his voyage of 1907-1909. Died of a heart attach on a voyage to the South Atlantic...
William Braine
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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Martin Peters
Football player and manager. Martin Stanford Peters was born on 8 November 1943 in Egham Road, Plaistow. He played for several teams, principally West Ham United and went on to manage Sheffield Un...
Winston Churchill - Epping 2
CM16, Epping High Street, 237 - 243
The location is where he spoke to the people of the town from outside the Victoria Buildings, (now a branch of Marks and Spencer).
Leigh Hunt
Poet. Born Southgate. Named 'James Henry Leigh Hunt' after the Duke of Chandos, James Henry Leigh, who was employing Hunt's father, a preacher, as tutor to his nephew at the time of Hunt's birth. F...
Wellington Arch - Quadriga
SW1, Hyde Park Corner
While still Prince of Wales, Edward VII saw a plaster version of this sculpture and initiated the idea of a bronze version being erected ...
Dr Owen Lankester
Chairman of the East End Maternity Hospital, 1902 - 1933. His obituary in Medical News 6 January 1934 tells us: Born Alfred Owen Lankester, brother to (the later) Sir Ray Lankester. Died at home...
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