Surveyor. Born Plymouth, godson of Samuel Johnson. Served in South Carolina. 1791 joined the Ordnance Trigonometrical Survey and became its director in 1798. Thus a very important figure in the work of the Ordnance Survey at this period. Lived at the Tower of London, and then at 4 Holles Street.
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Captain William Mudge
Commemorated ati
General Roy's cannon - south
The cannon was installed in 1791 by Mudge. The plaque came later in 1926. Fr...
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Firemen Remembered
Firemen Remembered is an independent charity dedicated to recording and remembering firemen and firewomen who served in the London Region in World War II and commemorating those who died.
6 memorials
E. C. Gordon
Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Private Frank William Glithro
Frank William Glithro was born in 1881 in Islington, Middlesex (now Greater London), the third of the seven children of William Glithro (1842-1905) and Elizabeth Margaret Glithro née Snow (1856-191...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
H. Prior
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Lieutenant Frank Robson Best
Lieutenant in the 1/4th (Territorial) Battalion of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Killed in action, aged 21. He is buried in plot B. 72 at the Authuile Military cemetery on the Somme. Frank ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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