Person    | Female  Born 1744  Died 1818

Abigail Adams

Categories: Friend / family

Countries: USA

Abigail Adams

Wife of John Adams, second President of USA, and mother of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), another President. Born Abigail Smith.

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Abigail Adams

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John Adams

In this house lived John Adams, first American Minister to Great Britain, May...

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Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

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4 memorials
Henry Rogers Broughton, Lord Fairhaven

Henry Rogers Broughton, Lord Fairhaven

Probably born Fairhaven, Massachusetts, second son of Urban Hanlon Broughton and his wife Cara.   On the death of his brother in 1966 become the 2nd Baron Fairhaven.  Married twice and had one son....

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2 memorials
Arthur Roscoe

Arthur Roscoe

Flight Officer, 71 Eagle Squadron, American

Person, USA

War served, WW2
1 memorial
Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck

Actor. Born Eldred Gregory Peck in San Diego, California. He appeared in many major films including 'Moby Dick', 'The Guns of Navarone', 'The Omen' and 'The Boys From Brazil'. Nominated five times ...

Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, USA

1 memorial
Lee Miller

Lee Miller

Fashion model and photographer.  Born New York. Worked closely with Man Ray in Paris and worked within the surrealist movement, starring in Jean Cocteau's film "Le sang d'un poète". Married an Egyp...

Person, Art, Egypt, France, USA

1 memorial

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William Hogarth bust

William Hogarth bust

WC2, Leicester Square

All four of the Leicester Square busts were removed in the 2010-12 redesign, and we don't know where they went.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Chalk Farm bus garage - WW1 "Grotto" plaque

Chalk Farm bus garage - WW1 "Grotto" plaque

NW1, Harmood Street, Bus garage

In 2021 Robert Turner sent us photos of a postcard showing a war memorial at the Chalk Farm bus garage. This had been found by his friend...

2 subjects commemorated
St Mary Matfelon

St Mary Matfelon

E1, Altab Ali Park, Whitechapel Road

Our picture comes from Google satellite view and shows, better than can be seen at ground level, the (partial) outlines of the two church...

13 subjects commemorated
Burlington House colonnade

Burlington House colonnade

SW11, Battersea Park

Even in our rather dismal photo you can see that there is a hill here, in an otherwise uniformly flat Park. Why is this hill here? We cam...

Teddy Baldock - plaque

Teddy Baldock - plaque

E14, Bright Street, Langdon Park DLR Station

When we first visited, September 2014, there was no plaque, just two holes drilled in the front of the plinth to indicate that there had ...

1 subject commemorated