Person    | Male  Born 1830  Died 1896

Col. Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, K.C.V.O., LL.D.

Col. Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, K.C.V.O., LL.D.

Very successfully pioneered bookshops on railway stations with the business name Horace Marshall and Son. The son being Horace Brooks Marshall, Jnr.  Snr. was a Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.

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Col. Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, K.C.V.O., LL.D.

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Tower Bridge, 1894 - opening

In 1894 the royal personages listed at the top of the plaque as: Prince of Wa...

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2nd London (County of London) Bde. R.F.A.
1 memorial
W. T. Kenny

W. T. Kenny

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Private John Lewis Lidstone

Private John Lewis Lidstone

Very little is known about John Lewis Lidstone. We know from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website that his parents were James and Maria Lidstone In the 1911 census he is shown as John ...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lieutenant John David Forster Williams

Lieutenant John David Forster Williams

John David Forster Williams was born on 13 January 1922, the son of Captain Montague Williams (b.circa 1889) and Nancy Gellatly Williams née Rogers (1897-1986). His birth was registered in the 1st ...

Person, Armed Forces, Italy, Wales

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Private Alfred Richard Bowyer

Private Alfred Richard Bowyer

Alfred Richard Bowyer was born on the 26 April 1893 in Marylebone, one of the eight children of James Bowyer (1866-1942) and Frances Bowyer née Parnell (1868-1945). He was baptised on 28 May 1893 a...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial

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Charing Cross Hospital - Agar Street

Charing Cross Hospital - Agar Street

WC2, Agar Street

We love the repeated "etc."s to indicate the Duke's excessively long list of honours, etc. (now we're at it!).

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Hilda Doolittle

Hilda Doolittle

Poet and writer. Born Pennsylvania, moved to London in 1911 as an Imagist poet.  Her work was often infused with Greek mythology and she had a particular interest in the poetry of Sappho.  Spent mu...

Person, Literature, Poetry, Switzerland, USA

1 memorial
John Masefield

John Masefield

Poet. Born Herefordshire. Orphaned early he was sent to sea, aged 13, to train as an officer and seems to have spent a lot of time reading and writing. Aged 17 he jumped ship in New York where he c...

Person, Poetry, USA

1 memorial
Curtain Theatre

Curtain Theatre

This, the second English purpose-built playhouse was erected very close to the first, The Theatre, and run by the same man, Burbage.  Not named for the modern drape on a proscenium arch, but for it...

Building, Theatre

2 memorials
Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner

Spent most of his life in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, where he was born (in the vicarage) and died (at home,The Chantry). First doctor to study smallpox vaccine. Trained with John Hunter at St Georg...

Person, Medicine, Science

4 memorials