16th President of the USA. Born Kentucky. Assassinated while watching a very popular British play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's theatre, Washington, by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer.
For a list of all the US presidents that appear on London Remembers see John F. Kennedy.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Abraham Lincoln
Copy of the statue in Lincoln Park, Chicago (other copies being in Mexico Cit...
From Pastscape: "... the octagonal spire ... is decorated by two groups of in...
{Inscribed on the red granite plinth:} Lincoln by Andrew O'Connor Presented t...
Businessman and philanthropist. Leonard Gordon Wolfson was the son of the first baronet, Sir Isaac Wolfson, a businessman who made a fortune with Great Universal Stores and created the philanthropi...
Scientist and statesman. Born Chaim Azriel Weizmann, at Motol, near Pinsk, Belorussia. (Modern day Belarus). He studied in Germany and Switzerland producing a number of patents on dyestuffs. In 19...
Person, Politics & Administration, Science, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Switzerland
Socialist and pacifist. Born Ada Brown at Raunds, Northamptonshire. She joined the West London Mission to work among the London poor, and in 1897 transferred to the Bermondsey Settlement, where she...
President of the China Town Chinese Association (London).
Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration, Tourism / Traditions, China/Hong Kong
Secretary of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Hospital.
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