His obituary in the BMJ includes a poem in Latin. For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.
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William Freer Lucas
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PP - 4N - Lucas
William Freer Lucas, MRCS, LLD, at Middlesex Hospital risked poison for himse...
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Mary Wilson
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 63. Buried in grave 1 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Yasin El-Wahabi
Yasin El-Wahabi was born on 9 August 1996 in St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, the eldest of the three children of Abdulaziz El-Wahabi (1964- 2017) and Faouzia El-Wahabi née Rami (b. circa 1975). S...
1 memorial
Lucy Parsons
Labour organizer, anarchist communist. Born Texas or Virginia, as Lucy Eldine Gonzalez, possibly to slaves and had a mixed ancestry. Married Albert Parsons, a white socialist and this interracial m...
1 memorial
Fm. Trevor Paul Carvosso
Fireman killed in the Dudgeon's Wharf explosion. Andrew Behan has researched Carvosso: Fireman Trevor Paul Carvosso was born on 3 April 1946 and his birth was registered in East Ham. He was one of...
3 memorials
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Edward the Black Prince
Edward, Duke of Cornwall and Prince of Wales and Aquitaine. Eldest son of King Edward III, born at the Palace of Woodstock, Oxfordshire. In his lifetime he was known as Edward of Woodstock; the sou...
10 memorials
Claire Rayner
Nurse, journalist, broadcaster, novelist and 'agony aunt'. Born Claire Berenice Chetwynd in London. Her early life was marred by the cruelty of her parents who put her in a psychiatric hospital wh...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Medicine, TV & Radio, Canada
1 memorial
First traffic lights in world
Less than a month after the lights were installed the lamp blew up, seriously injuring the policeman who was operating it. See the IET and the Victorianist for two different takes on the story. 20...
1 memorial
Earl of Ellesmere, Francis Egerton
Politician, poet, founding trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951. Born 21 Arlington Street, Piccadilly. Died Bridgewater House, London. ...
Person, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Poetry, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Robert Baden-Powell
SW7, Hyde Park Gate, 9
Greater London Council Robert Baden-Powell, 1857-1941, chief scout of the world lived here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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