One of the (many) supposed origins of the word 'pom' for an Englishman, is that convicts were branded with the initials of 'Prisoner of Millbank'.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
transportation to Australia
Commemorated ati
Millbank Prison - Atterbury Street
This historic bollard was presented by the City of Westminster to the Royal...
Millbank Prison - Australia
This historic bollard was presented by the City of Westminster, London, Engla...
Millbank Prison - Riverside Walk
London County Council Near this site stood Millbank prison which was opened i...
Tolpuddle Martyrs at Copenhagen Fields
Copenhagen Fields From this site on 21st April 1834 thousands marched in sup...
Tolpuddle Martyrs mural
A modern information board informs that the mural was painted by Dave Bangs i...
Other Subjects
Sir Robert William Dibdin, JP, FRGS
Robert William Dibdin was born on 15 June 1848 in Bloomsbury, the second of the six children of the Reverend Robert William Dibdin (1805-1887) and Caroline Dibdin née Thompson (1812-1897). His pate...
1 memorial
Luis L. Ramirez
Ramirez's divorced wife's lover was murdered in Texas in 1998. Ramirez was indicted for solicitation of capital murder. In 1999 he was sentenced to death and executed in 2005.
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
1 memorial
Act of Parliament - 1751-2 - licensing
"Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament of the Twenty fifth of King George the Second." This is a form of words that we have found at three 19th century places of entertainment, two physically and...
2 memorials
Philip Noble Fawcett, LL.M.
Philip Noble Fawcett was born on 7 April 1863 in Dublin, Ireland, the younger child of Henry Fawcett (1835-1882) and Mary Maria Fawcett née Noble (1834-1906). On 1 May 1863 he was baptised in St. P...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, Politics & Administration, Ireland
1 memorial
Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Novelist. Born at Wood Farm, West Bradenham, Norfolk. At the age of nineteen he was sent to Natal to serve the Lieutenant-Governor, as his father said he was only fit to be a greengrocer. He achiev...
1 memorial
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