A commissioner of Limehouse Library in 1900.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
W. H. Dixon
Commemorated ati
Limehouse Library
This stone was laid by J. Passmore Edwards Esq. 19th October 1900. Commission...
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Councillor G. Croot
Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905. This Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health, West Ham, 1909 gives more of his name, referring to 'G. Croot'.
1 memorial
H. T. Ashby, Councillor
Chairman of the Education and Public Libraries Committee of St Pancras in 1906
1 memorial
Norman Harry Harding, OBE
Chairman of of the City Lands and Bridge House Estates Committee in 1982. Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
2 memorials
Reformers tree / Reform tree
The text on the memorial says that the original tree was burnt by the people at the Reform League meeting at the tree on that day in 1866 but we can find no confirmation of that. Wikipedia has qui...
1 memorial
Richard Cobden
Political economist and Liberal MP. Born near Midhurst, Sussex, into a large and very poor family. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Spoke repeatedly to Parliament against war with...
5 memorials
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James Henry Reeve
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page: "Sergeant James Henry Reeve was a serving member of 6th Battalion Essex Re...
1 memorial
Shakespeare statue - EC2
EC2, New Inn Yard
We first captured this chap at his temporary resting place outside Southwark Cathedral. He was moved here in 2020-1 in recognition of th...
1 subject commemorated
Sir Rowland Hill
Initiator of the uniform Penny Post in 1840. Due to him Britain was the first country to use adhesive stamps and thus we do not have to put the name of our country on them. This is analogous to the...
6 memorials
1 memorial
Royal Silver Wedding at Barbican
EC2, Gilbert walkway, Barbican
This plaque is at the north end of the Gilbert walkway over the water gardens. This Londonist post contains some photos of the Queen visi...
2 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
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