Inscription
1914 - 1918 in memoriam 1939 - 1945
Site: Highgate School Gates (1 memorial)
N6, North Road, Highgate School
See Highgate School - Cholmeley House for information about the School.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Highgate School Gates
Subjects commemorated i
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came a...
World War 2
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Borough of Holborn
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Geraldine Mary Harmsworth
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York Watergate
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4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
WW1 gates at BMA
WC1, Tavistock Square
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Agnes Walker
Resident of Clerkenwell, Sutton Street (now Northburgh Street) in 1823. Mother of Charles Clement Walker. Died before 1885.
2 memorials
Sir Joseph Bazalgette
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7 memorials
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poet and Jesuit priest. Born 87 The Grove, Stratford, of Welsh ancestry. 1852 the family moved to Hampstead and GMH attended Highgate School where he flourished. At Oxford University he converted ...
4 memorials
Charles Clement Walker
Andrew Behan has very kindly done some solid work on Walker in the census returns and at ancestry.co.uk. From this we can say: Walker was born 1822 in Clerkenwell probably in Sutton Street (now No...
5 memorials
Mrs Fitzherbert
Mistress/wife of George, Prince of Wales, King George IV to be. Her first husband, Edward Weld, died three months after the wedding, falling off his horse, and before he had signed his new will, th...
1 memorial
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