Person    | Male  Born 1759  Died 22/7/1831

Captain William Browell

Captain William Browell

Naval officer.  1799, in command of the Sanspareil, was crippled in an accident, and rendered unfit for active service. RN Lieut-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1809 until his death.

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Captain William Browell

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Greenwich Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground

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Flying Officer Victor Robert Bono

Flying Officer Victor Robert Bono

Victor Robert Bono was born on 16 January 1914 in San Francisco, California, USA, the son of Victor Franz Bono (1890-1975) and Thordis Pederson (1895-1991). He married Stanlee A. Data (b.1915) and...

Person, Armed Forces, USA

War served, WW2
1 memorial
William Crawford Gorgas

William Crawford Gorgas

Born Mobile, Alabama. Worked in the medical department of the US army and specialised in yellow fever. Died in London from a stroke while on his way to West Africa.

Person, Armed Forces, Medicine, USA

1 memorial
Corporal Charles Roy Robinson

Corporal Charles Roy Robinson

Charles Roy Robinson was born on 11 March 1918 in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the youngest of the nine children of George Robinson (1872-1954) and Elizabeth Harvey Robinson née Johnson (1873-1949). His bi...

Person, Armed Forces, Italy

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
P. S. Dee

P. S. Dee

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Private Frederick William Welch Dunk

Private Frederick William Welch Dunk

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1. Private Frederick William Welch Dunk was born on 4 July 1875, a son of of John Dunk (b.1835) and Sarah Dunk...

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet and critic. Born and brought up in Ottery St Mary, Devon. Pupil at Christ's Hospital, 1781-91, where he became friends with Charles Lamb. Died London. Buried in the chapel of Highgate School....

Person, Literature, Poetry, Seriously Famous

5 memorials
Putney Town Rowing Club

Putney Town Rowing Club

Formed at the Half Moon Hotel in Putney. In 1929 it moved to the small boathouse underneath the Dukes Head Hotel, Putney, which remained its headquarters until 1986 when it moved to an empty boatho...

Group, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Day nursery, Pond Street

Day nursery, Pond Street

2012 and we are delighted to report that this building is still a day nursery: the "Royal Free Hospital Staff Day Nursery".

Building, Children

1 memorial
Shelter

Shelter

A charity that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing in England and Scotland. Founded by Bruce Kenrick,  it evolved out of the work on behalf of homeless people being carried on at St Marti...

Group, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Leslie Benjamin Newson

Leslie Benjamin Newson

Leslie Benjamin Newson was born on 30 August 1919 at 24 Harvard Road, Lewisham, London, the youngest of the five children of George Newson (1885-1963) and Elizabeth Newson née Greenaway (1888-1926)...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial