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...
On his father's death in 1891 he became head of the family firm of W.H. Smith and Son and also took over as MP for the Strand Division, until 1910. Chairman of King's College Hospital. Became 2nd V...
Naval officer and politician. Born St James's Square. Joined the Navy aged 13 (this was not uncommon) and served in the French Revolutionary Wars. Charles had 7 elder brothers so the chances of him...
Mayor of Hackney 1933-34. The picture shows him (the mayor, on the left) at the 1934 ceremony to bury a 'time capsule', a brass canister, below the foundation stone of the current Town Hall in Mare...
Worked for the St. Pancras Housing Society from 1929 to 1958.
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