War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Subject: Captain, Sir John Franklin
Born 16/4/1786, 239 years ago
Born Lincolnshire. Royal Navy. Governor of Tasmania 1836-43. where there is also a statue. Left England in 1845 leading an expedition of 2 ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to voyage the last unnav...
3 memorials
Subject: Rosalind Franklin
Died 16/4/1958, 67 years ago
Crystallographer. Born Chepstow Villas. Worked on DNA X-ray diffraction studies at King's College London with Gosling, Stokes, Wilkins and Wilson. She was responsible for the photograph taken in Ma...
4 memorials
Subject: Henry Fuseli
Died 16/4/1825, 200 years ago
Painter and writer. Born in Zurich as Johann Heinrich Füssli, worked mainly in England. The birth date we give is from the ODNB who warn that he later lied about it. His paintings often depict t...
1 memorial
Subject: Charles Grant
Born 16/4/1746, 279 years ago
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Scotland. Made a fortune working for the British East India Company of which he became Chairman. The death of two of his children brought about a religious conversi...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Scotland
1 memorial
Subject: Earl of Halifax
Born 16/4/1872, 153 years ago
Politician and diplomat. Born Edward Frederick Lindley Wood at Powderham Castle, Devon. He served in parliament from 1910, until he became Lord Irwin in 1925. Viceroy of India from 1926 to 1931. In...
1 memorial
Subject: Lt.-Col. John Lees Hall, MRCS, LRCP (FD)
Born 16/4/1855, 170 years ago
Deputy Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1907-1915. Knight Grace in the Order of St John. The BMJ, 1915 Aug 28; 2(2852): 351 carries an obituary: "L...
1 memorial
Subject: William L. Howes
Died 16/4/1918, 107 years ago
Soldier in the Machine Gun Corps killed in Wytschaete. Andrew Behan has researched Howes: Private William Leslie Howes was born in 1898 in Sheerness, Kent and his birth was registered in the third...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Memorial: Jack Cohen
Erected 16/4/2009, 16 years ago
E1, Ashfield Street, 91
Unveiled by Cohen's daughter, the Tesco heiress and disgraced Conservative politician Dame Shirley Porter.
1 subject commemorated,
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