This monument in the memory of Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S. & 12 years President of the Royal Geographic Society was erected in the year 1921 by the Peruvian nation in gratitude for his services as historian of their country.
SW7, Kensington Gore, Royal Geographic Society
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Markham
12 years President of the Royal Geographic Society. Born at Stillingfleet, Yo...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Markham
What Pub tells a sorry tale: "Built in 1840. ... pub closed on 7 Sept. 2016 ... Planning app dated 03 Aug 2018: Change of use of first an...
Here is a video of the unveiling.
The inscribed day of death, 8, is consistently contradicted by other sources which give 5. The inscription on the rear of the plinth is a...
The roundels on the north, river-facing, frontage are occupied by, left to right: Anson, Drake, Cook, Howard, Blake, Benbow, Sandwich, Ro...
In the early 1900s Moncure Conway retired to Paris, where he met and became good friends with sculptor Spicer Simson, still in the early...
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