Grew up in Wapping. A spokesman for the Levellers and a colonel in the New Model Army. Killed by a Royalist raiding party during the siege of Pontefract. The Levellers arranged for his funeral, 14 November 1648, to also be a mass demonstration for their cause.
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Thomas Rainsborough
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Thomas Rainsborough
Thomas Rainsborough was buried in this churchyard on the 14th November 1648 a...
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F. W. Chandler
Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Private Arthur John Pooley
Arthur John Pooley was born in Notting Hill Gate, Middlesex (now Greater London), the only child of John and Mary Anne Pooley. His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1894 in the Kensington ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
1 memorial
Admiral, Sir R. Goodwin Keats, GCB
Naval officer. Born Hampshire. Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1821 until his death there. The Greenwich monument has his name spelt 'Keates'; all other sources have 'Keats'.
1 memorial
Private Richard Cripps
Richard Cripps was born in Hull, Yorkshire, a younger son of John Cripps (b. circa 1851) and Isabella Cripps (1844-1899). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1882 in the Sculcoates regis...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial