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 Johnson
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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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Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese nobleman who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, in 1488, the first European known to do so since ancient times.
Admiral George Anson
Admiral. Born Staffordshire. 1740-4 circumnavigated the globe. Captured a Spanish galleon loaded with gold and silver (aren't they all?) and returned home a wealthy man. Died at home, Moor Par...
Edgar Evans
Born Wales. Met Scott when both were serving in the Royal Navy. One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Pole. Injured on the way to the pole he was the first to ...
Charles F. des Voeux
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Sir Francis Drake
Sea captain, explorer and pirate. Born in Crowndale, near Tavistock, Devon. He spent his formative years in the house of his cousin Sir John Hawkins and by 1565 was voyaging to Guinea and the Spani...
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George James & Sons
Blacksmiths in Northamptonshire. From the Picture source: "We are a family run firm of traditional blacksmiths and have been producing high quality metalwork from our forge for the past 170 years...
Tom Goodway
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
Toynbee Hall
E1, Old Castle Street, Evershed House
As far as we can tell this never was the site of Toynbee Hall which appears always to have been sited at 28 Commercial Street, as it stil...
Sir Victor Horsley
Scientist and soldier. Born Victor Alexander Haden Horsley in 2 Tor Villas, Campden Hill, Kensington. As a physician, he developed many practical neurosurgical techniques and was the first person t...
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Sir Bernard Eckstein
Bernard Friedrich Eckstein was the son of Friedrich Gustav Jonathan Eckstein who became wealthy through gold mining activities in South Africa. Bernard lived at his father’s home in Park Lane, Lond...
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