Erection date: 1855
To the intrepid young Bellot of the French navy who in the endeavour to rescue Franklin shared the fate and the glory of that illustrious navigator.
From his British admirers, 1853.
{The river-facing side carries:}
Bellot
33ft high red granite. Described in detail at the splendid PMSA.
SE10, Five Foot Walk, Royal Naval College
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bellot memorial obelisk
Explorer. Born Paris. For his participation in the 1845 Anglo-French exped...
Born Lincolnshire. Royal Navy. Governor of Tasmania 1836-43. where there is a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bellot memorial obelisk
Architect. His father and grandfather were both architects with the name Tho...
Made of Cornish granite. We've photoed the stone chain around the monument. Lower down is a stone rope with knots at the corners. We l...
We found the inscription text at IWM. It's from a report of the unveiling in the Hackney and Kingsland Gazette 23 February 1921.
We knew that the obelisk now at St George's Circus spent much of its life in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, from about 1897 - 1998, and ...
Erected on the 200th anniversary of the publication of Paine's "Rights of Man", written while Paine lived at the Angel Inn which used to ...
{On the front face of the plinth:} To the glory of God Erected by the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the 61st Battery Roy...
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